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Madonna performs at the Academy Awards  "You must love me" won the Best Original Song " You Must Love Me " is by Madonna from the soundtrack album Evita of the motion picture of the same name. It was released in October 1996 by Warner Bros. as the first single from the album. Written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1997.   It was seen by critics as her "new adult, matriarchal image". Featuring a simple, elegantly arranged melody, the single sold roughly 1.5 million copies worldwide, and entered the top twenty in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The music video shows her while being eight months pregnant with her first child, and scenes from the film Evita , for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Madonna filmed the music video for "You Must Love Me" on 31 August...

Madonna and Lorenzo Agius create a photo shoot for the July issue of "Ladies' Home Journal". Madonna Interview - Ladies Home Journal (July 2005) On a crisp spring afternoon in London, Madonna’s house is filled with the scents and sounds of Saturday. A yummy dish spiced with apples is cooking in the kitchen, laughter is drifting down from upstairs and Madonna’s 8-year-old daughter, Lourdes (“Lola”), is running around excitedly in a back room. “Look how cool, Mommy!” she is saying eagerly. “Isn’t this cool?” The house is straight out Mary Poppins, grand and old with gloriously high ceilings and massive woodwork painted elegant black, situated in a quintessentially British neighborhood within kite-flying distance of Hyde Park. A lone vase of fresh-cut red roses sits beneath a majestic museum-quality oil painting in the foyer, where a member of Madonna’s staff has asked me to wait. The feel of this place, which was entirely renovated by Madonna, is ...

MDNA is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Madonna , first released on March 23, 2012 by Interscope Records . It is also Madonna's first album not to be associated with Warner Bros. Records , the label she was signed to since 1982. As well as Madonna producing the album she worked with a variety of producers such as Alle Benassi , Benny Benassi , Demolition Crew, Free School, Michael Malih, Indiigo, William Orbit and Martin Solveig . MDNA lyrically explores themes such as partying, the drug MDMA , love for music, infatuation, heartbreak, revenge and separation. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Upon its release, it debuted at number one in many countries worldwide, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Madonna set a new record for the most number-one albums by a solo artist in Australia and the United Kingdom, but also achieved the largest second-week percentage sales drop...

This beauty is the Ibanez that I used for just about every guitar part on Madonna’s album ‘Ray of Light’. “William Orbit”

" Material Girl " is a song performed by American singer-songwriter  Madonna . It was released on November 30, 1984, by  Sire Records , as the second single from her second album  Like a Virgin . It also appears slightly remixed on the 1990 greatest hits compilation,  The Immaculate Collection , and in its original form on the 2009 greatest hits compilation,  Celebration . The song was written by  Peter Brown and Robert Rans, while  Nile Rodgers  produced the track. Madonna explained that the concept of the song was similar to her life's situation at that time. According to her, the song was provocative, hence she was attracted to it. Music video "Material Girl" consists of synth arrangements with a robotic voice repeating the  hook . The lyrics identify with  materialism , with Madonna asking for a rich and affluent life, rather than romance and relationships. Contemporary critics have frequently identified "Material Girl" along...

Mention the name Patrick Leonard to a Madonna fan, and their ears should immediately perk up. After all, it was Leonard who co-wrote and/or co-produced many of Madonna’s classic hit singles like “Live to Tell,” “Open Your Heart,” “Frozen” and “Like a Prayer.” The latter cut was the lead single and title track from Madonna’s 1989 album, which now celebrates its 25th anniversary. It was released by Sire/Warner Bros. Records on March 21, 1989, and shot to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 shortly thereafter. It spent six weeks atop the chart — her longest run at No. 1 for any album. To celebrate a quarter century of “Like a Prayer,” Billboard spoke to Leonard — the primary co-writer and co-producer of the set — to discuss the making of the album and his recollections of working with Madonna. (Would you believe “Like a Prayer” was written in one day? And the entire album was written in less than two weeks?) In our lengthy chat, we discuss everything from where Prince pops up ...