So where does she go from here? The banal question merits only an equally banal answer: Who knows? She goes where we go, a cultural bloodhound always on the scent of the fresh, the cool and the credible. That is part of her excitement and appeal, at once the ambitious all-American girl, the clinical corporate chief, the loyal friend, the uncertain lover, and the restless, life-enhancing force of nature, continually challenging, provoking and enchanting.
As she herself says, ‘It feels to me that I’m slowly revealing myself, my true nature. It feels to me like I’m just getting close to the core of who I really am.’
Her journey has only begun.
Acknowledgments
Considering that this is a book about an all-American girl, it seems curious that my research began and ended in a typically English fashion – with a cup of tea and home-made cake. It began with a discussion about the family tree of her husband, Guy Ritchie, at the North London home of one of his relatives, Gavin Doyle. It ended, some months later, with a short journey south to the Thames-side study of Sir Tim Rice. There, surrounded by Evita memorabilia, as well as cricketing gear assembled for an impending match in Berlin, the Oscar-winning lyricist talked about the singer he came to know. Even in New York, the home of fast food and filter coffee, it was hard to escape English tea. This time, though, it was served with kosher milk and biscuits in a Greenwich Village apartment, as a rabbi meditated on Madonna’s interest in the Jewish mystical teachings known as the Kabbalah.
For the most part, given the singer’s nocturnal lifestyle in the clubs of New York and Los Angeles, research was perforce undertaken long after afternoon tea had ceased to be served. Her former boyfriend Mark Kamins gave an erudite discourse on different tequilas in a Cuban bar in Tribeca; Scottish friends explained the character of folk in Dornoch, where Madonna married, over a glass or two of malt whisky; while back in SoHo, the film director Abel Ferrara waxed lyrical about the efficacious properties of Budweiser beer, brewed in nearby New Jersey. As he talked about one of the world’s brightest showbiz stars, outside in the street a placard-carrying evangelist denounced the modern cult of celebrity.
Yet, as those who were interviewed made abundantly clear, Madonna is far more than a run-of-the-mill celebrity. By dint of enterprise, creativity and dynamism, the very qualities that helped to make America, she has established herself as a towering figure not only in the world of popular entertainment, but in modern culture. My thanks, then, to all those who shared their insights and observations to help me chart her trajectory and gain a fix on a personality that has, in spite of the thousands of articles about her, remained as elusive as it is enigmatic.
I am indebted to Jim Albright; Lucinda Axler; Arthur Baker; Camille Barbone; Erika Belle; Fred Brathwaite aka Fab Five Freddie; Vito Bruno; Gary Burke; Norris Burroughs; Nick Ciotola and Kerin Shellenbarger at the Senator John Heinz Regional History Center, Pittsburgh; Mary Anne Dailey; Professor Gay Delanghe, the University of Michigan; Mark and Lori Dolengowski; Gavin Doyle; Abel and Nancy Ferrara; Katherine Fortin; Vince Gerasole; Dan and Ed Gilroy; Stuart Graber; Linda Alaniz-Hornsby; Virginia Humes; Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; Mark Kamins; Peter Kentes; John Kohn; Celeste LaBate; Jimi LaLumia; Pearl Lang; Jeff Lass; Robert Leacock; Sir Michael Leighton, Bt; Andrew Lownie; Jock McGregor; Colonel William McNair; Patrick McPharlin; Curt Miner; Coati Mundi; Michael Musto; Claire Narbonne-Fortin; Sioux Nesi; Rabbi Julia Neuberger; Bert Padell; Andy Paley; Tommy Quon; Sir Tim Rice; Mira Rostova; Whitley Setrakian; Bobby Shaw; Peter Sibilia; Ed Steinberg; Carol Steir; Steve Torton; Dr Nick Twomey; Robert Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice; Bonnie Winston; Ruth Dupack Young; Curtis Zale; Fred Zarr. Those mentioned above who lent me their rare and fascinating photographs are also acknowledged separately on page 9.
My thanks also to my researchers, Lizzie Clachan, Will Hartley and Tania McKeown, for tackling the mountain of paper that has been produced about Madonna, and to my editors, Jacquie Wines and Toby Buchan, for making sense of my additional molehill, as also to their colleagues at Michael O’Mara Books – Gabrielle Mander, Helen Cumberbatch, Karen Dolan, Diana Briscoe, Rhian McKay, Nessa Williams and Athene Chanter. I am also indebted to the people at St Martin’s Press, New York, and especially to my editor there, Hope Dellon, and her assistant, Kris Kamikawa. Martin Bristow worked his usual miracle on the design and setting of the book, on a very tight deadline, and Andrew Armitage compiled the index with great skill. As ever, my publisher and friend Michael O’Mara encouraged me when I was flagging and, more important, kept me up to date with the progress of my soccer team, Leeds United, during the weeks spent across ‘the Pond.’ And finally, to my wife Lynne and daughters Lydia and Alexandra, who cheered me on. I have made a lot of new friends and had a lot of fun, and I can only hope that readers will enjoy reading my book about Madonna as much as I enjoyed researching and writing it.
ANDREW MORTON
Highgate, London, September 2001
Madonna: Discography, videos, film and theater, tours
12-inch vinyl, cassette and CD maxi-singles chronologically
1982 Everybody; Everybody (Instr.) (12-ins vinyl only)
1982 Everybody (Dub) (UK 12-ins)
1983 Burning Up; Physical Attraction (12-ins vinyl only)
1983 Lucky Star (Full Length); I Know It (UK 12-ins)
1983 Holiday (Full Length); Think Of Me (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster)
1984 Borderline (New Mix); Lucky Star (New Mix)
1984 Borderline (US Remix); (Dub Remix); Physical Attraction (UK 12-ins)
1984 Like A Virgin (Ext. Dance Remix); Stay (Extra limited edition with poster in UK)
1984 Material Girl (Ext. Dance Remix); Pretender (LP)
1985 Angel (Ext. Dance Mix); Into The Groove (Single)
1985 Angel (Ext. Dance Mix); Burning Up (Mix) (UK 12-ins, also issued with poster sleeve)
1985 Dress You Up (12-ins Formal Mix); (Casual Instr. Mix); Shoo-Bee-Doo (LP)
1985 DressYou Up (12-ins Formal Mix); (Casual Instr. Mix); I Know It (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster sleeve)
1985 Gambler (Ext. Dance Mix); (Instr.); Nature Of The Beach (UK 12-ins, ‘Nature’ performed by Black ’n’ Blue)
1985 Crazy For You (UK, 45-rpm 12-ins single)
1985 Into The Groove; Everybody; Shoo-Bee-Doo (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster)
1986 Cosmic Climb (Ext. Dance Mix); (Ext.); We Are The Gods (subtitled ‘The Early Years’)
1986 Live To Tell (LP); (Edit); (Instr.)
1986 Open Your Heart (Ext.); (Dub); White Heat
1986 Open Your Heart (Ext.); (Dub); Lucky Star (UK 12-ins)
1986 Papa Don’t Preach (Ext. Remix); Pretender
1986 Papa Don’t Preach (Ext. Remix); Ain’t No Big Deal; Papa Don’t Preach (LP) (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster)
1986 True Blue (Color Mix); (Instr.); Ain’t No Big Deal; True Blue (Remix/Edit)
1986 True Blue (Ext. Dance); Holiday (Full Length) (UK 12-ins)
1987 La Isla Bonita (Ext. Remix); (Ext. Instr.)
1987 Causing A Commotion (Silver Screen Mix); (Dub); (Movie House Mix); Jimmy, Jimmy (US cassette single, first copies in longbox)
1987 Causing A Commotion (Silver Screen Mix); (Dub); (Movie House Mix); Jimmy, Jimmy (US cassette single)
1987 Causing A Commotion (Silver Screen Mix); (Movie House Mix); Jimmy, Jimmy (Fade) (UK 12-ins)
1987 The Look Of Love; Love Don’t Live Here Anymore; I Know It (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster)
1987 Who’s That Girl (Ext.); (Dub); White Heat (LP) (CD & cassette single)
1987 Who’s That Girl (Ext.); White Heat (LP) (UK 12-ins, also cassette maxi)
1988 Cosmic Climb; We Are The Gods; Wild Dancing (Wild Dance Mix) (subtitled ‘The Early Years’; in USA issued as poster sleeve & picture disk)
1989 Cherish (Ext.); (7-ins); Supernatural (UK 12-ins)
1989 Dear Jessie (LP); Till Death Do Us Part (LP); Holiday (12-ins) (UK 12-ins, cass
ette maxi & picture CD, also limited edition with poster sleeve. CD reissue 1989)
1989 Express Yourself (Non-Stop Express Mix); (Stop & Go Dubs) (UK 12-ins, also issued as picture disk showing nude Madonna)
1989 Express Yourself (Non-Stop Express Mix); (Stop & Go Dubs); (Local Mix); The Look Of Love (LP) (CD & cassette single)
1989 Keep It Together (12-ins Remix); (Dub); (12- ins Ext. Mix); (12-ins Mix); (Bonus Beats); (Instr.) (From here on, all maxis also released on CD. The CD maxi-single includes ‘Keep It Together’ [Single Remix], but omits the [Dub] and [Bonus Beats] versions)
1989 Like A Prayer (12-ins Dance Mix); (12-ins Ext. Remix); (Churchapella); (12-ins Club); (7-ins Remix/Edit); Act Of Contrition
1989 Like A Prayer 1 (12-ins Ext. Remix); (12-ins Club); Act Of Contrition (UK 12-ins, also issued with poster sleeve)
1989 Like A Prayer 2 (12-ins Dance Mix); (Churchapella); (7-ins Remix/Edit) (UK 12-ins)
1990 Hanky Panky (Bare Bottom 12-ins Mix); (Bare Bones Single Mix); More (LP)
1990 The Holiday Collection: Holiday (LP); True Blue (LP); Who’s That Girl (LP); Causing A Commotion (Silver Screen Single Mix) (UK CD/mini LP)
1990 Justify My Love (Orbit 12-ins Mix); (Hip Hop Mix); (The Beast Within Mix); Express Yourself (1990 Remix – Long) (CD and cassette maxi-single includes ‘Justify My Love’ [Q-Sound Mix] )
1990 Justify My Love (Orbit 12-ins Mix); (LP); Express Yourself (1990 Edit) (UK 12-ins, also limited edition on pale blue vinyl)
1990 Justify My Love 1 (Orbit 12-ins Mix); (Hip Hop Mix); (The Beast Within Mix); Express Yourself (1990 Remix, Long) (UK CD maxi- single)
1990 Justify My Love 2 (Hip Hop Mix); (Q-Sound Mix); (The Beast Within Mix) (UK CD maxi- single) 1990 Vogue (12-ins); (Bette Davis Dub); (Strike-A-Pose Dub) (From here on, all maxis are also available on cassette. Cassette and CD maxi-singles include ‘Vogue’ [Single])
1990 Vogue (12-ins); Keep It Together (12-ins Remix) (UK 12-ins, CD & cassette maxi- single)
1990 Vogue (12-ins); (Strike-A-Pose Dub) (UK 12- ins, also limited edition with poster)
1991 Rescue Me (Titanic Vocal); (Lifeboat Vocal); (Houseboat Vocal); (S.O.S. Mix) (CD maxi- single includes ‘Rescue Me’ [Single Mix])
1991 Rescue Me (Titanic Vocal); (Lifeboat Vocal); (Houseboat Vocal) (UK 12-ins)
1991 Rescue Me 1 (7-ins Mix); (Titanic Vocal); (Demanding Dub) (UK CD & cassette maxi- single)
1991 Rescue Me 2 (Lifeboat Vocal); (Houseboat Vocal) (UK CD & cassette maxi-single)
1991 Crazy For You (Remix); Keep It Together (Special Remix); Into The Groove (Shep Pettibone Remix) (Remix for UK)
1991 Get Down; Get Down (Ext. Mix) (subtitled ‘The Early Years’; issued in UK as picture disc)
1992 Erotica (Kenlou B-Boy Mix); (Jeep Beats); (Madonna’s In My Jeep Mix); (WO 12-ins); (Underground Club Mix); (Bass Hit Dub)
1992 (From here on, all maxis are issued on Maverick/Sire label. The CD maxi-single includes ‘Erotica’ [LP Edit] and [Masters At Work Dub], but omits [Bass Hit Dub]. A CD, entitled Erotic, was included with the Sex book, it contained versions of ‘Erotica’.) Erotica (LP); (Instr.); (Radio Edit) (UK 12- ins, also limited edition with poster)
1992 Erotica (Orbit Max); (Kenlou B-Boy Mix); (Underground Club Mix); (Orbit Dub); (Madonna’s In My Jeep Mix) (UK CD & cassette maxi)
1992 Deeper And Deeper (Shep’s Classic 12-ins); (Shep’s Deep Makeover Mix); (Shep’s Deep Beats); (David’s Klub Mix); (David’s Deeper Dub); (Shep’s Deeper Dub) (CD maxi-single includes ‘Deeper and Deeper’ [LP Edit], [Shep’s Fierce Deeper Dub], and [David’s Love Dub], but omits [David’s and Shep’s Deeper Dubs])
1992 Deeper And Deeper (Shep’s Classic 12-ins); (Shep’s Deep Makeover Mix); (David’s Klub Mix); (David’s Love Dub); (Shep’s Deeper Dub) (UK 12-ins)
1992 Deeper And Deeper (LP); (Shep’s Deep Makeover Mix); (David’s Klub Mix); (Shep’s Classic 12-ins); (Shep’s Fierce Deeper Dub); (David’s Love Dub); (Shep’s Deep Beats) (UK CD & cassette maxi-single)
1992 Michael Jackson: In The Closet: (Cm) (Turn) (Tmd) (K 12-ins) (Mixes Behind Door 1, Madonna as the Mystery Girl)
1992 Michael Jackson: In The Closet: (Tm) (Fsm) (Tmof) (Tud) (Mixes Behind Door 2, Madonna as Mystery Girl)
1993 Bad Girl (Ext. Mix); Fever (Ext. 12-ins Mix); (Shep’s Remedy Dub); (Murk Boys’ Miami Mix); (Murk Boys’ Deep South Mix); (Oscar G’s Dope Dub) (CD maxi-single includes ‘Bad Girl’ [Edit] and ‘Fever’ [Hot Sweat 12-ins], but omits ‘Fever’ [Shep’s Remedy Dub] & [Oscar G’s Dope Dub])
1993 Bad Girl (LP); Erotica (William Orbit 12-ins); (William Orbit Dub); (Madonna’s In My Jeep Mix) (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with poster)
1993 Erotica: Bad Girl (Extended Mix); Erotica (Kenlou B-Boy Instr.); Erotica (Underground Tribute); Erotica (Wo Dub); Erotica (House Instr.); Erotica (Bass Hit Dub)
1993 Keep It Together (Remixes): Cherish (Ext.); Keep It Together Dub; Keep It Together (Bonus Beats); Keep It Together (Instr.) (Includes 7 mixes of the title track: 12-ins Remix, Dub, 12-ins Extended Mix, 12-ins Mix,
1993 Bonus Beats, Instrumental, & Original Version) Rain (Radio Remix); (LP); Up Down Suite (Non-LP Track); Waiting (Remix) (Also CD maxi-single)
1993 Rain (Radio Remix); Up Down Suite (Non-LP Track); Waiting (Remix) (UK CD maxi-single)
1993 Remixed Prayer EP: Like A Prayer (12-ins Dance Mix); (12-ins Extended Mix); (Churchapella); (12-ins Club); (7-ins Remix); Express Yourself (Non-Stop Express Mix); (Stop & Go); (Local Mix) 1993 This Used To Be My Playground (Single); (Instr.); (Long) (UK 12-ins)
1993 Fever (Hot Sweat 12-ins Mix); (Ext. 12-ines Mix); (Shep’s Remedy Dub); (Murk Boys’ Miami Mix); (Murk Boys’ Deep South Mix); (Oscar G’s Dope Dub) (UK 12-ins, CD includes [LP] but omits [Oscar G’s Dope Dub])
1994 I’ll Remember (Guerilla Beach Mix); (LP); (Guerilla Groove Mix); (Orbit Alternative Mix) (US 12-ins)
1994 I’ll Remember (LP); (Guerilla Beach Mix); (Orbit Mix); Why It’s So Hard (Live From The Girlie Show Tour) (CD maxi-single)
1994 Secret (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix); (Junior’s Sound Factory Dub); (Junior’s Luscious Club Mix); (Junior’s Luscious Club Dub); (Allstar Mix) (CD maxi-single includes ‘Secret’ [Edit], [Junior’s Luscious Single Mix) and [Some Bizarre Mix], but omits [Junior’s Sound Factory & Luscious Club Dubs])
1994 Secret (Junior’s Luscious Single Mix); (Junior’s Extended Luscious Club Mix); (Junior’s Luscious Dub); (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix,); (Junior’s Sound Factory Dub) (UK CD maxi-single)
1994 Secret (LP Edit); Let Down Your Guard (Rough Mix Edit); Secret (Instr.); (LP) (UK CD maxi-single)
1994 Take A Bow (InDaSoul Mix); (LP); (Silky Soul Mix); (InDaSoul Instr.); (Instr.) (Also CD maxi-single)
1994 Take A Bow (Edit); (LP); (Instr.) (UK CD maxi-single)
1994 Bedtime Story (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix); (Junior’s Sound Factory Dub); (Orbital Mix); (Junior’s Wet Dream Mix) (Junior’s Wet Dream Dub)
1994 Bedtime Story (LP Edit); (Junior’s Wet Dream Mix); (Junior’s Dreamy Drum Dub); (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix); (Junior’s Single Mix) (Also CD maxi-single)
1995 Oh Father; Live To Tell (Live Edit from Ciao Italia Tour); Why’s It So Hard (Live from The Girlie Show Tour) UK CD maxi-single, also limited edition with four postcards)
1995 Bedtime Story (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix); (Junior’s Sound Factory Dub); (Orbital Mix); (Junior’s Wet Dream Mix) (UK 12-ins, also limited edition with hologram foil sleeve)
1995 Bedtime Story: (1) Bedtime Story (Junior’s Single Mix); Secret (Some Bizarre Mix); (All- star Mix); (Some Bizarre Single Mix) (2) Bed- time Story (LP); (Junior’s Wet Dream Mix); (Junior’s Dreamy Drum Dub); (Orbital Mix ); (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix) (UK double CD limited edition in box with lyric booklet)
1995 Into The Groove: Into The Groove; Everybody; Shoo-Bee-Doo
1995 Like A Virgin (Ext. Dub); Stay
1995 Live To Tell (LP); (Edit); (Instr.)
1995 Lucky Star (US Remix); I Know It
1995 Material Girl (Jellybean); Pretender
1995 Open Your Heart: Open Your Heart (Ext.); Open Your Heart (Dub); White Heart (LP)
1995 Papa Don’t Preach: Papa Don’t Preach; Ain’t No Big Deal; Papa Don’t Preach (LP)
1995 Who’s That Girl (Ext.); White Heat (LP) (US cassette single. UK CD & cassette had bonus track: ‘Who’s That Girl [Dub])
1995 You’ll See (LP); (Instr.); (Spanish); Live To Tell (Live From Who’s That Girl Tour) (Also CD maxi-single)
1995 You’ll See (Edit); Rain (LP); You’ll See (Instr.) (UK CD maxi-single)
1995 Human Nature (Runway Club Mix); (I’m Not Your Bitch Mix); (Runway Club Mix Radio Edit); (Bottom Heavy Dub); (Howie Tee Remix); (Howie Tee Clean Remix); (Radio); (Love Is The Nature Mix) (Also CD maxi- single)
1995 Human Nature (Human Club Mix); (Runway Club Mix); (Master With Nine Sample); (I’m Not Your Bitch Mix) (UK 12-ins)
1995 Human Nature 1 (LP); Bedtime Story (Junior’s Sound Factory Mix); (Orbital Mix) (UK CD maxi-single)
1995 Human Nature 2 (Radio Edit); (Human Club Mix); (Chorus Door Slam With Nine Sample); (I’m Not Your Bitch Mix) (UK CD maxi-single)
1996 One More Chance (LP); You’ll See (Spanish); (Spanglish) (UK limited edition with poster sleeve)
1996 Wild Dancing: Wild Dancing (Original); (Dance Mix) (Madonna sings back-up vocals only)
1996 You’ll See (LP); (Instr.); (Spanish); Live To Tell (Live from WTG Tour) (Also CD maxi- single)
1996 Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (Soulpower Radio Remix Edit); (LP Remix Edit); (Soulpower Radio Remix); (LP Remix) (UK CD maxi-single)
1996 Another Suitcase In Another Hall; Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Miami Mix Edit); You Must Love Me; Hello And Goodbye (UK CD maxi-single, also limited edition with 3 film prints in standard jewel case)
1996 You Must Love Me (Video); Rainbow High (LP); You Must Love Me/I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You (Orchestra) (Warner Bros UK CD maxi-single)
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