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MADONNA INTERVIEW : SMASH HITS (JULY 31 1985)

   NAME:  It’s really Madonna. Madonna Ciccone. I never became aware that it was such an unusual name until I moved to New York and started getting my name on programmes; people assumed it was a stage name. ANY NICKNAMES?  My father called me Nonny — I think that’s how I said my name when I was little. I gave myself a graffiti tag too: “Boy Toy”. BORN:  In Detroit. What year? Why do I have to tell everybody that all the time? FIRST CONCERT:  David Bowie at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Oh, it was the most marvellous thing I’d ever done in my life! I was punished severely for going. PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS:  Before this blasphemous job? I worked at Burger King and McDonald’s and was a lifeguard and scooped ice cream. I was once a painter’s model: I took all my clothes off and they pretended to draw my body artistically. FIRST CRUSH:  The first boy I ever loved was Ronny Howard in the fifth grade class. He had real white-blond hair and sky bl...

July 30, 1990 // Madonna's I'm Breathless was certified double platinum by the Music Canada (MC) for shipments of 200,000 copies.

Madonna's  I'm Breathless  stayed on the chart for 26 weeks, and was certified double platinum by the  Music Canada  (MC) for shipments of 200,000 copies.

PEOPLE (JULY 29 1985, UNITED STATES)

July 25, 1990 // Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90, was released on VHS and LaserDisc.

Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90 , on VHS and LaserDisc on July 25, 1990. It was released in Japan only by  Sire Records  and  Warner-Pioneer  and contains a date filmed at  Yokohama Stadium  in  Yokohama, Japan on April 26, 1990. Another release,  Blond Ambition Tour 1990 , was released on DVD in Germany only in 2005 by Falcon Neue Medien which had obtained a licence to release it only in that country. Neither Madonna nor  Warner Bros. Records  authorized the release, which features poor-quality footage from a show filmed in Houston, Texas in May 1990. The same footage was released in the UK in October 2007 by Quantum Leap Video.