Madonna Extreme

   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...

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.

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.

Madonna’s Indian Summer When I was a little girl, I had to work in my father’s vegetable garden every summer. My father has a work ethic that makes mine look nonexistent, so the school’s-out-for-summer stuff does not exist in my family. Basically, I was either put to work at my house, weeding and spraying insecticide, or we had to go to my grandparents’ house in Pennsylvania, where we’d fix up the house and the yard all summer. When I got older and started to figure out what I wanted to do, I spent a summer going to a local college and taking dance classes – anything to keep from mowing the lawn. But, really, aside from that, I do not associate summer with fun and free time, not as a child. So maybe that’s why when I think of my favorite summer songs, the ones I think of are attached to angst-ridden memories. Actually, I like the summer better than the winter. For one thing, I like the heat better than the cold – I still don’t have air conditioning. I hate air conditioning. Bec...

"Hanky Panky" was recorded within the three weeks time taken for the whole project.  Personnel working on the song included Leonard on  keyboards ,  Jeff Porcaro  on  drums ,  Guy Pratt  on  bass  and Donna De Lory ,  Niki Haris  and  N'Dea Davenport  on background vocals.   Lyrically, the song deals with sadomasochistic  themes and is centered around a girl who celebrates the pleasures of a " good spanking ".  It is performed in an almost comical style, and stemmed from a line in the film, where Breathless says to Tracy, "You don't know whether to hit me or kiss me".