On this day 53 years ago in Bay City, Michigan, pop royalty was born in the form of Madonna Louise Ciccone, the third child of Silvio Ciccone and her namesake mother, Madonna Louise Fortin Ciccone.
Madonna’s rise to stardom is legendary. She briefly attended the University of Michigan on a dance scholarship before dropping out to move to New York City in late 1977. She famously arrived in NYC with just $35 in her pocket and worked briefly at a Dunkin’ Donuts before taking on odd jobs as a backup dancer and model (which came back to bite her in the butt after she got famous and some nude pics taken in ’78 were published in Penthouse and Playboy in ’85).
She was playing in a NYC-based band with an ex-boyfriend when a demo landed in the hands of then-Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, who famously signed Madonna to the label from his hospital bed while recovering from a heart infection. She immediately hit the studio to record her first single, “Everybody,” which hit radio on October 6, 1982, and became a dance hit. Her self-titled debut record was released the following summer, yielding the first (“Lucky Star”) of her now-record breaking run of 37 top ten hits, more than any artist in the history of music.
The rest, as they say, is history – which we will now thoughtfully break down for you with a rundown of some of Her Madgesty’s biggest moments.
>>> October 6, 1982: Madonna’s first single, “Everybody,” is released.
>>> July 27, 1983: Madonna is released on Sire Records to positive reviews and strong radio play. “Holiday” became her first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Lucky Star” became her first top ten hit, reaching No. 4 on Oct. 20, 1984.
>>> September 14, 1984: Madonna gives the world a taste of what the next ten years will hold with her performances of “Like A Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards. Clad in a skimpy wedding dress and “Boy Toy” belt, Madonna rolled around the stage and started a phenomenon. (It’s also among our Most Iconic VMA Performances. Vote now in our poll!)
>>> November 12, 1984: Madonna releases her career defining Like A Virgin album. The set’s title track gives her her first No. 1 hit and went to sell over 21 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the biggest albums ever.
>>> June 30, 1986: True Blue is released. The album gave Madonna three No. 1 hits (“Papa Don’t Preach,” “Live To Tell” and “Open Your Heart”) and two other top fives (La Isla Bonita” and “True Blue”). The album was a smash, of course, but is most notable as the first album on which Madonna co-wrote and co-produced every song – something she has done on every one of her albums since, a rarity in the pop music world.
>>> March 21, 1989: The single “Like a Prayer” is released, igniting one of Madonna’s biggest controversies. The video for the single features burning crosses, stigmata and Madonna kissing an actor playing the role of Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mixed-race people. Because of the controversy surrounding the song and video, Pepsi severed its $5 million deal with Madonna, though she kept the cash. The song reached the top of the charts on April 22, 1989, and was listed by Rolling Stone at No. 300 on its list of the Greatest Songs of All Time.
>>> April 13, 1990: “The Blond Ambition World Tour” kicks off in Japan. Madonna’s third concert tour, “Blond Ambition” hit Asia, North American and Europe over nearly five months. The tour ignited much controversy, including a condemnation from the Vatican (!), for its juxtaposition of Catholic iconography and sexuality. The Pop called for a boycott of the show, which forced Madonna to cancel one of the shows three Italian dates. Madonna filmed the show and backstage antics for the documentary “Truth or Dare.” Rolling Stone named the tour the “Greatest Concert of the 1990s.”
>>> November 6, 1990: Madonna has always been vocal about sex and sexuality, but she really started putting it out there in the early ‘90s. Because of its explicit sexuality, MTV banned the video, leading Madonna to release it as a video single (it went on to become the most successful video single ever). Filmed in the style of 1960s European art films, Madonna defended the video as a feminist act (and found support in scholars like Camille Paglia) and cried censorship. All told, the single was another No. 1 for M and helped propel the greatest hits set on which it appeared, The Immaculate Collection, to over 30 million in worldwide sales, making it the 25th most successful album ever.
>>> October 21, 1992: Madonna released her softcore coffee table book “Sex.” The book was a runaway hit, selling out its initial press run, but was highly controversial, leading many to wonder if Madonna had finally gone too far. The book was released in concert with the album Erotica, which was also a commercial success, though it did not sell as well as her previous efforts.
>>> December 25, 1996: After much of the controversy from her Erotica phase had subsided, Madonna starred in “Evita,” which won her a best actress Golden Globe Award. During production of the film, Madonna announced she was pregnant with her first child. On October 14, 1996, Madonna gave birth to Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.
>>> March 3, 1998: Inspired by the birth of her daughter and her newfound interest in Kabbalah, Madonna hit the studio with producer William Orbit (as well as longtime collaborator Patrick Leonard) to record Ray of Light, her seventh studio album. The set reinvigorated her career and brought her long-overdue industry respect, nabbing five Grammy nominations (including Album and Record of the Year) and winning three awards, Pop Album of the Year among them.
>>> September 10, 1998: Madonna, who has more VMAs than any other artist (20), wins her first (and so far only) VMA for Video of the Year for “Ray of Light.”
(Incidentally, “Ray of Light” is currently dominating our VMA poll for Best Video of the 1990s. Don’t forget to vote!)
>>> August 21, 2000: The title track to Madonna’s eighth studio album, Music, hits the charts and goes all the way to No. 1. When “Music” topped the Billboard chart on Sept. 16, 2000, it became Madonna’s first number one since “Take a Bow” in 1994, and gave her a number one single in three separate decades. The track earned a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.
>>> June 9, 2001: “The Drowned World Tour” kicks off in Barcelona, Spain. The tour was Madonna’s first in eight years (she last toured behind Erotica with her “Girlie Show” tour in 1993). Madonna had originally intended to tour behind Ray of Light but had to delay the show after becoming pregnant with her second child, Rocco. She chose instead to launch “Drowned World” behind Music.
>>> August 28, 2003: Madonna opened the 2003 MTV VMAs by performing “Like a Virgin” with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera – both of whom were thought at the time to be the dueling successors to her pop throne. During the performance, Madonna kissed both Spears and Aguilera on the lips, igniting arguably the biggest controversy in the history of the VMAs (let us know if you agree by voting in our Most Outrageous VMA Moments poll … the kiss is currently neck and neck with another buzzed-about VMA kiss, that of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in 1994).
>>> May 24, 2004: The “Re-Invention World Tour” kicks off in Los Angeles. The massive production, which sold out every show except one, played arenas and stadiums in North America and Europe, grossing $125 million, making it the top tour of 2004. As she did for her “Blond Ambition” tour, Madonna shot a documentary, “I’m Going To Tell You A secret,” telling the story of her life on the road.
>>> October 17, 2005: “Hung Up,” the lead single from Madonna’s tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor, is released. Co-written and co-produced with Stuart Price, the song became Madonna’s 36th (!!) top ten single, tying her with Elvis Presley for the title of artist with the most top tens. Confessions debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart in November 2005 and inspired “The Confessions Tour,” which went on to become the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist with grosses exceeding $194 million (a record Madonna would break just a few years later).
>>> March 17, 2008: As singles often do these days based on digital sales, “4 Minutes” featuring Justin Timberlake entered the Billboard Hot 100 almost immediately after its release and when it did, Madonna broke her tie with Elvis to become the artist with the most top ten hits ever. Some of her other notable chart achievements: 48 top 40 hits, 12 number ones and 32 cumulative weeks spent at number one. Madonna is also the artist with the most number two hits (6).
>>> August 23, 2008: The “Sticky & Sweet Tour” kicked off in Cardiff, Wales, en route to hitting four continents (Europe, North America, South America and Asia) and grossing $408 million, more than any tour ever by a solo artist and making the show the fourth biggest tour of all time. Madonna performed for over 3.5 million fans in 32 countries.
The “Sticky & Sweet Tour” wrapped up on Sept. 2, 2009, in Tel Aviv, Isreal. Since then, Her Madgesty has released a greatest hits compilation but has mostly laid low on the music front. All that will change elater this year or early next year, when she releases her as-yet-untitled 12th studio album, which she is currently working on in London.
So happy birthday, Madonna! You changed the face of music, and pretty much every artist that has emerged since you broke onto the scene owes you a debt of gratitude for pushing the boundaries of what was possible for a pop star.
Have a martini and enjoy your big day. You earned it, girl!
Yesterday, while traveling back to New York City, all-too-brief visit to Pennsylvania, we are able to pass though the Newark, NJ, and began Whitney Houston, thinking we would always when we pass through Newark, "I Will Always Love You" from the singer's home town.
We wondered, what is he, if he or she has been in recent times, and if things are going, alright. It is not in the earlier this morning that it had been understood that we are celebrating the great day: Julie, she turns to 48 today!
It is easy to rag, Whitney, in recent years, the tour events – breach of the rights of the defence, the problems of the mediocre album, citizens ' understanding of the fact that his problems are not to the extent that he would like to show you previously to believe – but that is not what we are going to do today. Instead, let's take a moment to celebrate the most impressive one of the most legendary performers in music history. (Oh, and listen to the Special Court, the evidence that he is still on his hit-making sense of him, regardless of what the gossips want to say!)
>>> One of his 1994 "I Will Always Love You" was used in the No. 1 U.s. Billboard singles chart, in which the largest single at the time in the history of the 14 weeks.
>>> "Bodyguard" for the soundtrack to the history of the music was more than 1 million units of one week, the first album.
>>> ' bodyguard ' soundtrack has more than 42 million copies worldwide, with sales in the top ten female singer to make selling albums ever list only studio album.
>>> "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"-the Houston film "waiting to Exhale" is a song that used most of the time on the No. 2 singles charts on 11 weeks in the top-post a position.
>>> Houston is one of only ten artists ever, can be more than 10 in number ones (he was 11).
>>> Houston, starting from 1985-88 and notched seven consecutive number ones – more than any artist to this day.
>>> Houston's second album Whitney , (1987), was the female artist debut No. 1 Billboard 200 album chart, the first studio album.
>>> A career with sales in excess of 100 million records, he is one of the all-time top artists.
>>> Six of the Grammy Awards has won.
>>> Houston's rendition-the 1991 Super Bowl, "the Star-Spangled Banner" is the most successful song to release as a single. He donated all sales of the one, the American Red Cross.
>>> Houston's three films to feature – "bodyguard", "waiting to Exhale," and "The preacher's wife" – a $ 236 million, grossed an impressive total gross worldwide, over here, 539 million dollars in the U.S.
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Brian Joseph Burton, a world of music knows and loves Danger mouse, the, such as the man turns 34 today, and his many milestones are quite mindboggling. The music of Pink Floyd, and Portishead, Burton, the correct Fit Spain in London, where he moved on to make a name for himself as a trip hop-DJ, but instead found himself focusing on making, and hip hop beats. But it was a moment of true Serendipity which led Burton, where he is today.
Although her apartment cleaning and listening to the Beatles ' White Album, Burton became a full copy of the capella his Jay-Z Black Albumand struck the inspiration. After making one piece successfully and surprisingly easy to Burton took on both albums for Mashing up in full at the Grey albumcreation. The result was clearly not exactly legal, because the music of two separate borrows (Burton immediately got killed, and the letter from the count of the acts of the female), but became a viral sensation, and is likely to be loaded in the times of millions. Burton has quickly became a hot commodity – GQ Magazine named him one of their men in 2004, although Entertainment Weekly named at the Grey Album album of the year pick for them.
Burton got his next big break, when I asked him to produce the musician known for critically acclaimed debut album Gorillazmonitoring, with his new group. We are talking about, of course, Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur and the mastermind behind many of the major projects. Go to receive the 2005 Grammy Award in the Burton nomination for their work on the production of the finished product, Gorillaz n Demon Days.
Burton made a boot image, then, in 2006, when the British graffiti artist Banksy prankster/enlisted in his works of art project in the world. Banksy "derived from the" 500 songs debut album vampires to Paris Hilton and change album art – including the album in the label, that boasts such as song titles, "Why am I Famous?" — when Burton swapped 40 minutes of music on discs, mix, contain different sound bites from Paris, for himself.
The same year, Burton started yet another invitation to tender for the project, when he joined forces with the soul, Cee-Lo, Gnarls Barkley, creating a current Savior. Anyone who had access to the radio in the summer of 2006, heard of their hit, "Crazy", because it is in the song was not successful (and wanted) to get your head in. Burton and Cee-Lo even took their project on the road to the other twelve, armed with the musicians, and only appeared in the movie as a different photo shoots, and during the presentations. They have since donned many films that borrows the ":" Wizard of garb Oz, "" the Pink Panther, "" Back to the Future "and even" Napoleon Dynamite ". Why? Simply because they want to.
Next, Burton re-teamed with Albarn good, the bad and the Queen of the, which also Clash bassist Paul Simonon, former Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Africa 70 drummer Tony Allen. Does the chart success of the album, although on smashing, was critical of the hostel, and many of the indie favorite circuits.
Soon found himself more of a focus on the Burton production tasks. In April 2008, the Ohio blues rockers the Black Keys to put the Attack & Release, which was prepared in the Burton After teaming with Burton, the Black Keys, eventually began receiving belongs to the mainstream critics. A few months later, Burton produced Beck's 11th album, , modern guilt.
In the summer of 2009, Burton was to dispose of his most exciting effort yet in the book, music, and in collaboration with underground musician Sparklehorse and film director David Lynch is known as "the dark night of The Soul." The effort was an expert in user pages of the original copies of the manual of photography and numbered 5,000 book on Lynch. The music section was done and the Burton, Sparklehorse, several notable rock musicians shared the role of singer, guest: the Flaming Lips, the Strokes, and Julian Casablancas Iggy Pop to name a few of Wayne Coyne. Unfortunately, with the various disputes led to the indefinite delay (probably had something to do with the Beatles music for a few years previously), but the record was released later in the year following, eventually the Sparklehorse, aka Mark Spinning a tragic suicide.
Burton formed another band in late 2009, the recruitment of James Mercer, singer of indie pop Favorites Etupotkat sulphur Bells. The Walz has published March 2010. It includes the catchy "High Road" and was ranked as one of the best of the year.
A few months later, in May 2010, the Black Keys released their most successful record to date in the Brothers,,, which was produced by Burton once again. Thanks in part to the continued expansion of the Group's sound was found by Burton himself, the main stage of the action of the keys to quickly have many festivals of music borrows.
Burton was one of the biggest of his career, when asked, he will present a live U2 on their upcoming 13th album tracks. He has been working in the fishing effort around the group assigned to the "360 ° Tour", delay after 2010.
Earlier this year, Burton revealed his latest project, the of the Rome,, is an Italian film composer Daniele Luppi. The effort was a labor of love, such as the pair took five years to make. The album was inspired by their shared love of old spaghetti western soundtracks. The effort was recorded in the old school, old equipment and used for many of the musicians, who had found the original audio tracks that Burton and Luppi had grown up. Burton asked his friends Jack White, and Norah Jones (who need not deployment) is the of Rome, thebehind the sounds.
Burton has been appointed for 11 Grammy Awards (such as producer, and artist Gnarls Barkley) and was due for a year of the duration of this year, the producer of the Grammys. The second nom or two can be expected when the Black Keys, release a new album later this year. A man should not be simply but should take today, and savor his success. Happy birthday, danger mouse!
Friday (July 8) is one of the Bek David Campbell, musician/producer/multi-tasking artist connectedbirthday/amateur Gutenberg better known throughout the world, Beck. This is a bit shocking for a number of reasons voters are the Chief feed materials constitutes a scientific fact that she does not show a day for more than 12.
And though his musical output is some vaipuneet in the last few years (set aside from the, you know, he continued "record Club" in the series and work the Thurston Moore, and Steve Malkmus ... as we said, the industry, the dude's a multitasker), we are here, to the MTV Newsroom-still a few fans and are looking forward to seeing Beck look he goes back to 2008, moody Modern guiltin the monitoring of the day. Or better yet, the ' 99 Midnite Vulturea spiritual sequel to.
In fact, the mere mention of these two albums — and in the disparity between the musical — quite a lot of Why the value entries we love Beck. so much He is a man of the year, all of the really times (and styles), to be able to be out after churning the ethereal fare, such as "Chemtrails" one minute to an Asian party-starters such as flaming, "Sexx laws" to the next (to say nothing of "Debra," the white boy, a slow jam, the son of a white end all the slow jams). Simply put, is not the kind of music there, that he is not tried their hand at or completely done his own thing.
Consequently Beck's birthday, here's a look back at "120 minutes", "if he tears up his copy of the first press A Western harvest field by Moonlight LP (a pity, because it is probably worth big bucks now) are included in the finger painting, his appearance destroys the phone of 1994 epochal and repeats some of the noise of his trusted subordinate portable cassette recorder..., and that is only the first segment of the celebration. So enjoy, and make sure that you can send a message to the birthday Beck. We are confident that he or she benefits from reading ... each time the he is these days.
