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Madonna: True Blue

Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1986

OF ALL CURRENT superstars, none has manipulated the apparatus of fame more astutely than Madonna. Like Prince, she recognized the virtue of a one-word name ...

Madonna the Missus

Essay by Ben Thompson, The Independent, May 2001

IN HENRY JAMES' 1873 short story ‘The Madonna of the Future’, the American protagonist visits the city of Florence, where he encounters a strange and ...

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Madonna (1984)

Interview by David A. Keeps, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 1984

La Ciccone talks about making Desperately Seeking Susan: wanting the part; the producers Orion's doubts; screen tests etc., and getting the part; on not being an overnight success; her next single, 'Like a Virgin', and its video, including an encounter with a lion; her plans for the next year, including touring; aspects of her personality: eroticism, vulnerability, snottiness, and how she can be wooed.

File format: mp3; file size: 40.3mb, interview length: 41' 57" sound quality: ** (background noise)

Madonna (2002)

Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, July 2002

La Ciccone talks about her love of foreign films; about London then and now; about her new film Swept Away and other stage and movie projects; about being slagged off as an actress; about the difference between British and American class; and about her lapsed Catholicism and her devotion to Kabbalah.

File format: mp3; file size: 82.4mb, interview length: 1h 25' 51" sound quality: ***

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First Bites: Madonna

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 12 March 1983

IT'S NOT OFTEN that you find this rag covering an artist who wants to be the new Evelyn King and who numbers Michael Jackson as ...

Madonna: In Time with the Perfect Beat

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 26 March 1983

THE WEEK Madonna arrived in London was the same week that the winter we thought had forgotten us called in. In circumstances like this, most ...

Madonna: Mad On A Dance Floor

Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, Flexipop!, May 1983

THESE DAYS I wake up more and more feeling death's breath around the corner as I near the winter of my years. It's so hard ...

Madonna: Madonna (Sire)

Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 1 October 1983

LAZY MADONNA ...

Cheek to Cheatham: Madonna/Oliver Cheatham

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 5 November 1983

FROM CHIC TO STREET: BARNEY HOSKYNS FINDS OUT HOW FAR MADONNA AND OLIVER CHEATHAM HAVE MOTORED SINCE QUITTING DETROIT VIA THE DANCE STUDIOS OF NEW ...

Madonna: "l wanted to be a nun... then I discovered boys"

Interview by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 19 May 1984

CLUBLAND MOURNS! Hang on to your hats, nightpeople — Doyenne of post-midnight dance developments, Madonna, has some bad news. The brand new Queen of disco, ...

Madonna

Interview by David A. Keeps, Smash Hits, 24 May 1984

Bubblegum, Swimming, Rubber jewellery, Ice cream sundaes with hot fudge topping... Madonna thinks they're all yummy, as David Keeps finds out. ...

Virgin On The Ridiculous: Madonna: Like A Virgin (Sire)

Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984

WATCHING A TALENT as genuine and grounded as that of Cyndi Lauper pull off those pop Partonisms necessitated by the nature of today's marketplace is ...

Madonna (1984) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by David A. Keeps, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Fall 1984

This is a transcript of David's audio interview with Madonna. Listen to the audio of this conversation. ...

Madonna: "I always acted like a star even before I was one!"

Interview by David A. Keeps, Smash Hits, 17 January 1985

And that time has certainly come. She's had massive hits both sides of the ocean, and she's started making movies and claiming she'd "like to ...

Maybe She's Good: 10 Theories On How Madonna Got "It"

Interview by Laura Fissinger, Record, March 1985

Usually it takes a while for a pop star to earn heavyweight hatred from a significant percentage of the press and public. But like everything ...

Boy Toy Rock: Sex Sirens of the Decade

Report by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 April 1985

IF THE reports from her first concert in Seattle are any indication, you can expect Madonna to ask San Francisco, early in her show at ...

Lucky Stars

Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 9 May 1985

How Rosanna Arquette, Madonna and director Susan Seidelman lost tempers and found each other through Desperately Seeking Susan ...

Madonna Milks Sexy, Savvy Image

Profile and Interview by Laura Fissinger, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 10 May 1985

USUALLY IT takes a while for a pop star to earn heavyweight hatred from a significant percentage of the press and public. But, like everything ...

Madonna seduces Seattle: Madonna, Paramount Theatre, Seattle

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1985

Her first show featured all the hits and more... ...

Virgin Pruned!: Madonna: Convention Center, Dallas

Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 May 1985

MULTI-MEDIA SUCCESS has made Madonna America's first generic pop star — and her first foray into live performance brought forth a capacity house of young ...

Crazy About Madonna — Madonna: Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven CT

Live Review by Nick Adams, No. 1, 22 June 1985

New Haven, America, is simply wild about Madonna. Madonna is simply wild! Nick Adams witnesses the hysteria. ...

Madonna: 'Bruce Springsteen Was Born To Run, I Was Born To Flirt...'

Essay by Richard Cook, Sounds, 15 February 1986

RICHARD COOK takes a manly look at the pop tart goddess, MADONNA, who has put sleaze and safety back into pop stardom ...

Madonna Speaks...

Report by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986

...and what do you think the press do? After weeks spent camping out at airports, breaking into hotels and getting themselves run over to get ...

Madonna: Can't Stop The Girl

Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1986

HERE WE ARE on a nice drive down Cahuenga Boulevard — the journalist's rental wreck following Madonna's forty-plus-grand midnight-blue Mercedes sports coupe — and the ...

Madonna: True Blue

Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986

"SO I'M HERE looking through an old picture frame/Waiting for a perfect view/I hope something special will come into my life/Another fine edition of you" ...

Madonna: True Blue (Warner Bros.)

Review by Byron Coley, L.A. Weekly, 18 July 1986

Meditations on Madonna ...

Madonna: True Blue (Sire)

Review by Laura Fissinger, Creem, November 1986

LOOK, I don't blame all you Madonna non-fans out there. I, too, was a non-fan — in the summer of '83, to be precise. I ...

Madonna: The Crucifixion Of A Junkyard Angel

Comment by Lucy O'Brien, John McCready, New Musical Express, 13 December 1986

Madonna: The Crucifixion Of A Junkyard Angel, part 1Lucy O'Brien ...

Whisper: Madonna Exclusive

Report by Max Bell, No. 1, June 1987

MADONNA LOUISE Ciccone finally relented last Tuesday, June 9, when she appeared on a chat show for the first time. Madonna, nobody's fool, chose The ...

Madonna: Houston Astrodome, Texas

Live Review by Mat Snow, Sounds, 8 August 1987

So who is that girl! MAT SNOW travels to Texas and discovers a MADONNA who owes little to the soft vulnerability of Marilyn Monroe and ...

Madonna: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 29 August 1987

CICCONE CABARET ...

Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by James Brown, New Musical Express, 29 August 1987

THE HORDES of topless Brooooce and Bono-philes who have come here before us have received nothing but the flabby hopes of two ugly old men ...

Jellybean Benitez: Spinning the Globe

Interview by David Toop, The Face, October 1987

First it was Jellybean the DJ playing disco in a Bronx salsa club and helping launch post-video game dance music from New York's Funhouse. Then it was Jellybean the producer working with megastars like Whitney Houston and Madonna. ...

Pat Leonard: The Madonna Method

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1988

PRODUCING BRYAN FERRY AND ARRANGING MADONNA IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-STAKES HIGH-TECH ...

Madonna: Like A Prayer (Sire 925 844)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 24 March 1989

On the button ...

Madonna: Wishing on a Star

Essay by Paul Mathur, Spin, April 1989

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes ...

Madonna: Like A Prayer

Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, May 1989

TRUE BLUE was not going to be bettered and the three years since haven't been Madonna's easiest, so Like A Prayer follows the only logical ...

A Madonna Discography: The First Decade

Guide by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 1990

THE ABBREVIATED HISTORY of music: first some guy banged on a rock in a cave somewhere: later there was Missing Persons, and now there’s Madonna. ...

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Sire Records, 1990

"The Coolest Queen of White Heat"... "An outrageous blend of Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher and Mae West"... "Narcissistic, brazen, comic... the Goddess of the ...

The Empress' New Clothes

Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Sunday Correspondent, 26 May 1990

As Britain limbers up for her Blonde Ambition tour and Dick Tracy movie, Barney Hoskyns casts a sceptical eye over the talents of Madonna Louise ...

Madonna

Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, June 1990

I INTERVIEWED Madonna at the Disney Studios, of all places, where she was rehearsing her Blond Ambition tour. It's not really so odd that she ...

Madonna: I'm Breathless

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, June 1990

THE VIDEO FOR Madonna's recent Number 1 has her "voguing" her way through a series of classic Hollywood images. As Madonna metamorphoses into blonde after ...

Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 July 1990

Madonna Inc in tireless and tiresome spectacle ...

Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 21 July 1990

Rock à la Hollywood ...

Hasn't Madonna Snogged A Lot Of Blokes?

Report by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 1 May 1991

She certainly has! Film stars. Pop stars. Producers. She's had more boyfriends than hot dinners! Here's CHRIS HEATH to tell us about the eight most ...

The Billion Dollar Lady's New Deal

Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 13 November 1991

THE NEWS THAT Madonna has just clinched a deal making her the highest-paid performer in the history of the pop industry only confirms what we ...

Pat Leonard: The Song And Dance Debate

Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, February 1992

"MY BACKGROUND and my real musical desires lean far more toward Roger Waters than they do toward Madonna," Miss Ciccone's principal songwriter, keyboardist and MD, ...

Madonna: Non-Stop Erotica Cabaret

Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 26 September 1992

Few papers get to interview MADONNA. Hardly anyone gets to see her home. Now — exclusively, natch — the NME charm their way into the ...

Madonna: Dominatrix Of The Trade

Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 3 October 1992

In Part Two of our sexclusive interview, GAVIN MARTIN reveals how an increasingly in-control MADONNA plans to conquer the '90s with her multi-media conglomerate Maverick, ...

Madonna: Erotica (Maverick/Sire 9362-45031-2)

Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 October 1992

Madonna may find her role as Venus in furs a turn-on. But for the rest of us her new album is less than erotic. ...

The Madonna Pornucopia

Preview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 21 October 1992

PSSSST! WANNA see some new Madonna product? ...

Madonna: Erotica (Maverick)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 24 October 1992

PORN TO RUN ...

Madonna: Erotica

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1992

WEIRD. ALMOST EVERY blushful purchaser will have recently caught the artist in flagrante, bollock, so to speak, naked. ...

Madonna: Erotica (Maverick/Sire)

Review by Max Bell, Vox, December 1992

NOW WE'VE ALL been in bed with Madonna, and studied her Sex, this Erotica business seems determined to encourage a few mind-games with the intent ...

Shep Pettibone: Spontaneous Combustion

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 27 April 1993

No amount of studio technology can ever compete with the priceless element of spontaneity to set things on fire, says Shep... ...

The Entertainer — Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 27 September 1993

Despite attempts to write her off, Madonna's spectacular costume cabaret proved that she's not dead, just feverish. ...

Girlie In A Coma: Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993

8.25PM: SHE'S HERE. Heads swivel and mouths gawp as her Royal Raunchiness makes an entrance few could hope to emulate. "I saw her! I saw ...

Damsel In Distress?: Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 October 1993

"DO YOU think she's lonely?" The question comes halfway through a butt-bumping take on 'Deeper And Deeper'. ...

Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums

Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994

Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...

Not CD of the week: Madonna: Bedtime Stories (Maverick 9362-45767-2)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 October 1994

"MAKING THIS album was a test of my sanity and stability," Madonna writes in the sleevenotes, admitting for the first time that she's not always ...

Madonna: Bedtime Stories

Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1994

"MINNIE MOUSE on helium," was how wags described Madonna back in the days of 'Holiday' and 'Lucky Star'. Such a girlie voice clearly betokened a ...

Um, Forgettable: Madonna: Something To Remember (Maverick/Warners)

Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 11 November 1995

She's trying to get all sophisticated in her old age, isn't she? Record company supremo, new cultured, metropolitan image, and a collection of her slower, ...

Madonna: Meanwhile Back at the Raunch

Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 2 December 1995

Phew!!! Hold on to your seats because MADONNA is about to reveal all... NOOOOOO!!! she's not stripping off again, but she IS telling all to ...

Madonna: Ray Of Light (WEA/CD/Tape)

Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 February 1996

HOW TIME flies. Four years, one child and the rise and fall of the most successful female-led uprising since the suffragettes and the lady Madonna ...

Madonna: Sleek-A-Boo

Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Face, February 1997

New Madonna, new danger? Groomed, elegant — the Material Girl has matured with good grace. Will her fans wish she hadn't bothered, asks Caitlin Moran ...

For the Love of Blighty

Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 1 December 1997

Coming soon to a suburb near you: Madonna. Susan Corrigan reports on a transatlantic affair ...

Madonna: Ray of Light (Maverick 9362-46847-2)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 February 1998

Ray of Light opens like an Eno album from the mid-Seventies, with an amorphous, watery blur of sound. It even has an Eno-soundalike title, or ...

Immaculate Projection: Madonna: Ray Of Light (Maverick/WEA) *****

Review by Angus Batey, Vox, April 1998

Music, motherhood and much, much more: real revelation from the world's most famous single parent ...

Madonna: Ray Of Light

Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 1998

La Ciccone's latest embarks on a course of 'techno' therapy ...

Madonna: Ray Of Light (WEA) ****

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, April 1998

She's dumped Warren Beatty, she's been Eva Peron and she's had Carlos The Tackle's child. Now it's time to go back to work... ...

Madonna: Mother of Reinvention

Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Vox, April 1998

With a new image and a new album MADONNA comes to 1998 in bullish form. Here, we assess the Material Girl's metamorphosis from disco diva ...

Mum's the word

Overview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 June 1998

They maybe rock icons, mad, bad and dangerous to know. But somewhere, some long-suffering woman remembers them in nappies. Caroline Sullivan on that great institution, ...

Madonna: Music

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2000

Her Madgesty's eighth studio album is a clinical future-dance monster ...

Madonna: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001

The live shows you really shouldn't have missed - a transcendent pop moment ...

Madonna: Madonna****; Like A Virgin***; True Blue**** (Maverick/Warner)

Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 2001

THE MAKING of a modern icon – her first three LPs remastered with extra remixes. ...

Madonna: Earls Court, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 8 July 2001

FOR £85, OF course, you'd expect her to lap-dance for you privately. Outrage might be what we've come to expect from Madonna, but this isn't ...

Madonna: Serious artist, or celebrity hustler?

Comment by Evelyn McDonnell, Times Herald-Record, 25 August 2001

The great Madonna debate: Does she inspire or annoy you? ...

Madonna (2002) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 2002

This is a transcript of Steven's audio interview with Madonna. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Madonna: GHV2

Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, January 2002

Second decade of hits and myths from La Ciccone — but no 'American Pie' ...

Madonna: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Retrospective by Lucy O'Brien, Q, March 2002

Plagued by accusations of bimboism and blasphemy, Madonna put on her conical bra, reduced her body fat to an "unhealthy level" and began playing with ...

Madonna: American Life

Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2003

AS A single, Madonna's 'American Life' is both a clever cultural statement and a crushing disappointment. ...

Madonna: The Early Days

Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 2003

"SHE'LL BE BIGGER than Olivia Newton John!" That's what incandescent young A&R man Michael Rosenblatt told his boss, Sire Records founder-owner Seymour Stein back in ...

Madonna : Manchester Evening News Arena

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2004

PARTS OF MANCHESTER almost ground to a halt this weekend as the European wing of Madonna’s Reinvention Tour opened with two nights at the city’s ...

Madonna

Retrospective by Dan Gennoe, Q Icons, Fall 2004

THE EXECUTIVES at MTV must have thought God himself was shining a light on them. In 1984, for the first Video Music Awards, they needed ...

Famous for being more famous than famous: Madonna and other icons

Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 4 November 2005

Our writer muses on the qualities that separate the icon from the merely great. ...

Madonna: Koko, London

Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 16 November 2005

THE LAST TIME Madonna played this venue was, as she reminded us, 22 years ago. Then, she was just another struggling blond singer/dancer/actress living on ...

Madonna: Looks Good on the Dancefloor

Interview by Simon Garfield, Observer Music Monthly, 20 November 2005

With 'Hung Up' at number one and her new album also set to storm to the top of the charts, Madonna has taken back her ...

Stayin' Alive: Madonna: Confessions On A Dancefloor (Warner Bros) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, December 2005

Her Madgesty's career saving eleventh album proves it's never too late to get back into the groove ...

Seymour Stein: Siring Greatness

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2005

IN A WORLD where the longevity of most rock stars is fleeting, record magnate Seymour Stein has nurtured a vast array of successes across the ...

Madonna: HP Pavilion, San Jose

Live Review by Joel Selvin, SF Gate, 1 June 2006

Madonna follows her glitzy, exhausting script to the letter. The Madonna circus rolls in — but it's not about the music ...

Madonna tackles her critics head on

Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 2 November 2006

HAD ONE CONSIDERED, five years ago, which controversy Madonna would next be embroiled in, it is unlikely that many of us would have guessed "something ...

Madonna: For the first time, her friends and lovers speak out

Retrospective by Lucy O'Brien, Independent on Sunday, 2 September 2007

How did a destitute dance student become the princess of pop? ...

Madonna: Hard Candy

Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 20 April 2008

Thanks to her henchmen, writes Ben Thompson, the shameless idol still has much to give ...

Madonna: Hard Candy

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 6 May 2008

A half-centenarian provides more porny pop excellence ...

Madonna: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff ***

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 25 August 2008

HOURS BEFORE Madonna launched her Sticky & Sweet world tour in Cardiff on Saturday, the phenomenal pulling power of history's biggest ever female pop star ...

Seen It All Before: Madonna, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

Live Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 11 September 2008

After 25 years of pop hits, Madonna's shock tactics are just embarrassing  ...

Madonna: Why Madonna's Still A Material Girl

Profile by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 5 April 2009

Turning 50 and divorcing Guy Ritchie doesn’t seem to have dented Madonna’s fortune – or her bankability. Robert Sandall investigates the business of being a ...

Madonna: MDNA

Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, March 2012

THIRTY YEARS INTO her career yet still at the apex of the pop world, Madonna is a victim of her own success in that she ...

Madonna: MDNA

Review by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 6 March 2012

SHE HAS A STOCK answer for it now. American news anchor Cynthia McFadden recently questioned Madonna about the uncanny resemblance between her 1989 hit 'Express ...

Madonna: Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY

Live Review by Iman Lababedi, Rock NYC, 7 September 2012

AT THE MIDWAY point of Madonna's lousy Yankee Stadium set Thursday night, she hectors the exhausted audience like a shrewish old maid, on the use ...

Thoughts On Madonna's MDNA Tour in America

Live Review by Carol Cooper, Rock's Backpages, 9 September 2012

AS I WRITE THIS Thursday night, I can hear Madonna singing from Yankee Stadium through the window of my Harlem apartment. In fact, the sound ...

Q: When will Madonna stop being relevant? A: When we stop asking if Madonna's still relevant.

Comment by Mark Kemp, Creative Loafing, 14 November 2012

WHEN MADONNA drolly announced to fans packed into the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24, that "we have a black Muslim in the ...

Madonna: Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, NC

Live Review by Mark Kemp, Creative Loafing, 16 November 2012

IF YOU WALKED away from the Madonna spectacle Thursday at Time Warner Cable Arena with only the image of the 54-year-old pop icon's ultra-fit ass ...

Another view: My night with Madonna (and Sean Hughes)

Memoir by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 October 2017

BACK IN THE LATE 1990s I used to run into Sean Hughes all the time at parties. He was a Perrier Award-winning stand-up comedian and ...

Dance of the Roma: How a Russian Guitarist From Charlotte Wound up on Tour With Madonna

Profile and Interview by Mark Kemp, Creative Loafing, 28 March 2018

THE YEAR WAS 2008. Charlotte-based Russian guitar virtuoso Vadim Kolpakov was onstage in front of 60,000 Madonna fans packed into Park Izvor in Bucharest, Romania. ...

Madonna: Where to start in her back catalogue

Guide by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 17 June 2020

In Listener's digest, we help you explore the work of great artists. Next: how the 1980s material girl transformed herself into a mature millennial pop ...

The Greatest Pop Star by Decade!

Comment by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 18 May 2023

PLEASE NOTE THAT I said popstar and not musician, so no Irving Berlin or George Gershwin… ...

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