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Bedtime Stories had already proven that Madonna had calmed down a bit after the raunchy Erotica period. On November 7th, 1995 she took it a step further and used her new-found calmness to release a collection of her best ballads. "... So without a lot of fanfare, without any distractions, I present to you this collection of ballads. Some are old, some are new. All of
Albumcover, designed by Jeri and John Heiden
Photography by Herb Ritts
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By the end of the eighties Madonna had released four successful studio albums, a remix album and some movie soundtracks. She had already scored eight #1 hits in the US, seven in the UK and Canada, and eleven in Japan. With the Blond Ambition Tour Madonna's success was higher than ever; the timing for a greatest hits album was p
** Ring My Bell (bonus track on Japanese edition)
Albumcover, shot by Steven Klein Art work by Giovanni Bianco
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"I'm going to kick your ass, but it's going to make you feel good". That's how Madonna introduced her 12th studio album Hard Candy. "The title is a juxtaposition of tough and sweetness... And of course I love candy!" After her successful future disco record Confessions On A
** Fighting Spirit (bonus track on limited edition)
** History (bonus track on Jump single)
** Super Pop (bonus track for ICON members)
Albumcover, shot by Steven Klein
Art work by Giovanni Bianco
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After working with him on her Drowned World Tour and Re-Invention Tour, Madonna teamed up with Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont) to produce her album Confessions On A Dance Floor.
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Art work by Michael Amzalag
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After her Drowned World Tour, two movie projects and a West End play, Madonna returns to the music scene with her album American Life. Written and recorded over 1,5 year, it was the longest time Madonna ever took to make an album. Which has a positive effect on the reflecting state of it, she says. She collaborated again with
** Cyber-raga (bonus track on Asian/Australian version)
** Like An Angel Passing Through My Room (unreleased demo)
** Liquid Love (unreleased demo)
** Lo Que Siente La Mujer (Spanish version of What It Feels Like For A Girl)
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When the news about a new album got out, expectations from both fans and critics were high. With Ray Of Light, Madonna has re-invented herself agai
** Has To Be (bonus track on Asian/Australian version and Ray Of Light single)
** Gone Gone Gone (unreleased demo)
** Like A Flower (unreleased demo)
** No Substitute For Love (unreleased demo)
** Revenge (unreleased demo)
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Four years after her last studio album Bedtime Stories, Madonna surprised the world with Ray Of Light. This album, being her 13th album and
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The early nineties was the most controversial period in Madonna's career. In only a few years time she presented to the world the 'Sex' book, the Erotica album and the movies Truth or Dare and Body of Evidence. By 1994 the world had an overdosis of 'Madonna Erotica' and many thought the Queen of Exhibitionism had gone too far this time. Especially the 'Sex' book had given Madonna more damage than fame; sales of the Erotica album were pretty lo
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It's beyond any doubt that controversy in Madonna's career peaked in the early nineties. Controversy had been around from the very beginning: rolling on the floor in the Like A Virgin wedding dress, promoting materialism in Material Girl (or that's what the critics thought), the peep show in Open Your Heart, the pointy Gaultier corsets from the Who's T
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On May 22nd, 1990 Madonna released I'm Breathless, a studio album that is often seen as the soundtrack of Dick Tracy. However, only three songs are actually from the movie: More, Sooner Or Later and What Can You Lose, which are written by Stephen Sondheim and produced by Madonna and Bill Bottrell. The other songs are "inspired by" the film Dick
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With True Blue, Madonna had set herself a much higher standard than her first two albums. The huge success of the album encouraged her to continue making her music both lyrically and musically strong, provocative, emotional and yet dancy. She also felt comfortable to write about her personal problems, and those she had a lot. Her next album would become
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When Madonna released her first album in 1983 she already had enough material for another album. But because of the success of that first album it wasn't until November 12, 1984 that Madonna released her second album Like A Virgin, which would soon become a big hit. She chose Nile Rodgers as producer of the album. Their collaboration worked very well
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After the successful release of her first two singles Everybody and Burning Up, Warner Records gave Madonna the permission to produce her first album. Though New York DJ Mark Kamins had discovered Madonna and produced Everybody, Madonna decided to work with Warner producer Reggie Lucas for the rest of the album. They started recording Lucky Star, a song written by Madon
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The third album can be crucial for an artist. A second album can still rely on the success of the debut, but with the third album, the audience starts to have high expectations. If the artist sticks with the same style, (s)he risks to lose the intrest of the public. If (s)he tries something new, there's the risk the audience just won't like it. For Madonna this crucial album
I think you wanna come over Yeah I heard it through the grapevine Are you drunk or you sober Think about it, doesn't matter And if it makes you feel good then I say do it I don't know what you're waiting for Feel my temperature rising There's too much heat I'm gonna lose control Do you want to go higher, get closer to the fire I don't know what you're waiting for Come join the party, yeah 'Cause everybody just won't do Let's get this started, yeah 'Cause everybody wants to party w
