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Rodgers demanded to be the sole producer and asked (and got) 1 million $ for it. Mo Ostin said ok and that the money was gonna be taken from Madonna's cut. Seymour Stein vetoed it otherwise she would have ended broke. 
Mo Ostin (head of Warner Music in the 80's and 90's) passed a month ago. Madonna said nothing, a lot of people from Warner said nothing because he was an asshole. After Prince died he tried to pass himself as his friend and biggest supporter when he's the one whom made his life miserable at Warner.

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The shit everyone wanted to see from years !

Kylie is on stage with M now!!! We’re getting I Will Survive tonight 

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well this has filled me with rage at 7:30AM on a Friday morning lol

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If you’re a publisher and you want to sell books, you tell your celebrity authors to add salacious and ambiguous material about other celebrities. Madonna is always at the top of that wishlist. She has remained incredibly guarded and well-insulated from factual historical reporting considering how long she has been in the public realm. Everyone who was in NY in the 80s has a Madonna story, but they are all more about them than her if you really think about it. 

All that said, I find the quotes from his book about her energy not feeling right because she’s aging against the natural flow absolutely hysterical! No one with an ounce of self-awareness could actually take that quote seriously from a sexagenarian drag queen. On top of that, Madonna is really the ultimate drag queen. All the personae, images, costumes, characters and eras make her inimitable and untouchable as the most stylish and influential chameleon of the modern era. I think Ru is a really fascinating person, but in this case he can sashay away to the Love Shack baby! 

Hi Frankito - all of your questions regarding 1983 have been answered on my Instagram account 
@webo_1958 
check it out xxx 

You should definitely make a book.

Nope, it aired on MTV for the first time on March 25, 1984 and aired on Top of the Pops March 29, 1984. She likely shot the video right after her London promo trip in January. Likely why it comes across as basically a live performance similar to what she had been doing around that time with the same outfits. 
One Sire or WB exec said Lucky Star was never supposed to be a single in the US, but Madonna got sued for the first time and they convinced her to release it to make some quick money, and MTV in May 84 started playing the video on light rotation along with Borderline. The video caught steam and Sire released a plain sleeve 7", basically spending little to no money on it.
Borderline was only released as one Sire/WB exec wanted to show the more serious/Adult contemporary side of her. It was the planned single from at least Nov or Dec 83 as the George Holz photoshoot (the one used on the re-released First Album) which was actually shot in Dec 83 for the Borderline cover and an upcoming Interview Magazine piece on her. 

Torrick "Toxic" Ablack is an artist, he was Jean-Michel Basquiat's friend and occasional studio assistant. He appeared in a few of Basquiat's paintings. He said Madonna played the keyboard during a jam session at Basquiat's loft. Basquiat heard the tape and it inspired him to produce "Beat Bop" by Rammellzee and K-Rob, which he released on his imprint Tartown Records. He had previously been in the noise band Gray. "Beat Bop" is ranked among Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time." The record is also very valuable because Basquiat created the cover art. It's so interesting how involved Madonna was with art, and hip-hop culture before she even became a pop culture phenomenon.
I just read his new interview with Juliet art magazine which he mentions Madonna.
I listened to the single “Beat Bop”, produced by Jean-Michel in 1983 for Rammellzee and K Rob. Jean painted the cover of the original vinyl, making the single one of the most valuable rap records in the world.
Before producing "Beat Bop", Jean was traveling in Los Angeles. At the time, Basquiat was dating Madonna, and she lived in his house in New York. One evening, with two friends of mine, we went to visit her and ended up doing a jam session: I on drums, Madonna on the keyboard, and my friend on the microphone. We then used Jean-Michel’s turntable and started recording. Later, Jean listened to the tape and decided he wanted to record “Beat Bop”. In those years we literally were in the middle of a creative hub!
https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/en/a-trip-in-the-1980s-bronx-with-toxic/
He also mentioned it in the book Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022):
"I knew Jean was in a band, but we didn't talk about it much. We were hanging out with Nick a lot. Jean bought a keyboard, A-One had a drum machine, and we would have these impromptu jam sessions. A1 would come by and play percussions. That kind of led up to 'Beat Bop.' Madonna was staying at Jean's place while he was in LA. I was there with my friends Trace and General EMC. She let us up, and we were just sitting there talking. I was playing the drum machine and Madonna started playing the keyboard. My friend started emceeing. We took Jean's turntable and scratched. Jean heard the tape. He loved that crazy impromptu shit! ... 'Beat Bop' was something that we took more as an art piece. Eszter [Balint] is on it ... We were around all these incredible musicians, like Arto Lindsay. We were painters, but painters who also DJ and make music, and Jean kind of tied it all together again, after Gray, doing 'Beat Bop.'
 

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Toxic and Shenge Ka Pharaoh holding a copy of "Beat Bop" at Basquiat's Crosby Street loft in 1983

 
Andy Warhol holding the record in 1983

 
Basquiat and Madonna with Toxic and Easy Gee (General EMC) at Futura 2000's Fun Gallery opening in 1983

 
Basquiat with Toxic and ON2 at Keith Haring's Fun Gallery opening in 1983

 
Madonna and ON2 in 1983

 
Basquiat and Toxic in 1983

 
Basquiat and Rammellzee on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood in 1982

 
Rammellzee, Kool Koor, Fab 5 Freddy, Basquiat and Toxic at the Fun Gallery in 1982

 
Madonna and Fab 5 Freddy circa 1983

 
Basquiat depicted with Toxic and Rammellzee in his paintings Hollywood Africans in front of the Chinese Theater with Footprints of Movie Stars (1983) and Hollywood Africans (1983)

Just to confirm the February London promotional tour happened between Tuesday 15th February and Friday 18th February 1983 
She stayed in North London possibly Prinrose Hill nr. Camden.
Tuesday15th Feb:-  she landed in the UK
Wednesday 16th Feb:- she visited the Warner offices in Soho and Trident Studios also in Soho - just two minutes away. At Trident she listened to a play back of Rusty’s remix, she didn’t say a word about not liking it. That evening she performed at Le Beat Route Club
Thursday 17th Feb:- She performed at The Camden Palace. It’s possible she also sat for interviews during the day in the North London flat she was staying in. At The Camden Palace on stage she jokingly told Rusty he was a shit DJ. Later off stage she told him that she wasn’t joking and she hated his mix……….Rusty himself has confirmed this. 
Friday 18th Feb:- She conducted more interviews during the day and performed at Xenon night club on Piccadilly. 
Although unconfirmed it’s possible that she attended Malcolm McLarens Friday ‘Buffalo Gals Night’ at The Mud Club following this performance. 
Record Mirror wrote about the promotional tour in their issue dated weekending Saturday 26th of February1983 - this was published the Monday prior (the 21st of February) - there is no possible way this tour was the 22nd Feb until the 25th February. 

Furthermore in an article written about the visit from the time it states how cold the weather was when La M arrived - if you search through the weather in London in Feb 1983 you’ll find a very cold spot hit the UK during the second week of Feb
Please amend all records let’s get history corrected 
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Here is Franco’s instagram 
https://www.instagram.com/hiddentrakk?igsh=ZzZxOWwydHBwbnYx
Am sure he’d be happy for the follows and questions 

Here is Franco’s instagram 
https://www.instagram.com/hiddentrakk?igsh=ZzZxOWwydHBwbnYx
Am sure he’d be happy for the follows and questions 

Thank you very much. 40 years waiting for this song. If it won't leak one day, at least, we have an idea of how it sounds. Great job.
Hope you have more AI projects with other songs she wrote for other artists like Nick Kamen, Donna DeLory, Nick Scotti, Marilyn Martin or even another Santa Baby Version, all of them with her 80's voice. I doubt those solo demos will leak one day.
I have no hopes with expanded deluxe editions anymore. 

Thanks a lot, it really seems a plausible original demo (... NEVER got why everybody was so eager to get this demo though )

Thanks Skin Bruno 
it was a pleasure working with you on this 
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Thanks to you to help on this.

Thanks Skin Bruno 
it was a pleasure working with you on this 
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I recreated with AI Warning Signs. Obviously the original version is not like that but we know that the melody and the words are like that, so we can make an edea.
I decided to put an audio watermack in the track that says "Skin Bruno AI Reconstruction" because the clip I had put on the net as a preview was being passed off as the original and since I don't want anyone to take advantage of it I put the watermack audio and watermark visible on the spectum of the audio.
I hope you enjoy this version.
Originally Reconstructed and shared by @santamadonnapodcast
Original Vocals: @Hiddentrakk
Original Musical Production: Agustín Aguirre @soyagustinaguirre
Thanks to @Webo_1958


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The fan who listened to tracks off the RT at the COL back in the days - mentioned WS and would sell it for $35K but that could've been just messing around when describing the track... This clip was posted in Chile  

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I still see the True Blue watercolor portrait shirts. But were all of the other watercolor portrait tshirts just for the opening in London? I know I'm in the minority but I liked some of them.