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August 28, 2003 - Madonna performed Hollywood with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera as the opening number for the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY and upstaged everyone at the ceremony when she shares a passionate open-mouth kiss with them. Missy Elliott also joined the ladies on stage – post-kiss. Madonna commented on the uproar surrounding the infamous kiss during an appearance on Oprah several weeks later. “I don’t know why people are making such a big deal about it,” she said. “Hasn’t anyone seen two girls kiss before? It was a friendly kiss – it really was. If Britney looks as though she is kissing me in an aggressive way it was a surprise to me.” She added, “I’m a showgirl. After 20 years in the business, we learn to roll with the punches. If someone’s coming at you with lips slightly parted, you kiss them.”

On August 1 1989, the third single from Madonna’s Like a Prayer album, Cherish, was released by Sire Records. The song was written and produced by Madonna an Patrick Leonard. The single was released on 7″, 12″, CD and cassette single formats. The b-side featured a previously unreleased track, Supernatural. Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli talking about Cherish in his book, Madonna: An Intimate Biography: “Cherish was a particular triumph for the Madonna/Patrick Leonard partnership. A delightful confection of radio-ready proportions, the song had it all—strong, positive, remarkably dysfunction-free lyrics about love, a memorable, singalong vocal melody, and a tight, pungent rhythm arrangement. It remains, quite simply, one of the best songs Madonna has ever written; sweet and happy, but by no means corny, it’s a perfectly constructed pop song which Madonna delivered beautifully, and with undeniably sassy charm. Indeed, if Cherish had been released in the Sixties, it would have most like

Happy Birthday Madonna! The Material Girl Turns 65 ! Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She’s commonly referred to as the “Queen of Pop”, Madonna is noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. She has pushed the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music, while maintaining control over every aspect of her career. With sales of over 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time. She is the most successful solo artist in the history of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and holds the record for the most number-one singles by a female artist in Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. With a revenue of over U.S. $1.5 billion from her concert tickets, she remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, her first year of eligibility.

An icon of unabashed ambition and sexual magnetism, Madonna has been making headlines since the early MTV Age for her musical talents and much more. Cosmo caught up with the Material Girl in July 1987 to talk about her rising hopes for a career in Hollywood and her then-marriage to bad boy heartthrob Sean Penn. Endearingly frank and forever flirting with the wild side, some things never change: 36 years later, she remains the star we fell for then. - On August 16, 1985, Madonna married Sean, who loved her a hundred percent and whose passion for privacy was as fierce as her passion for being cheered in public. Opposites attract, and if a girl who has lived by the maxim “Hey, look at me!” wants a boy who would just as soon dig a moat around their house, that’s their business.

Madonna's debut album turns 40 July 27, 1983 — Madonna’s eponymous debut album was released by Sire Records. The record was renamed Madonna: The First Album for the 1985 international re-release of the album. The album was released with 8 tracks (produced by John “Jellybean” Benitez, Mark Kamins and Reggie Lucas): • Lucky Star • Borderline • Burning Up • I Know It • Holiday • Think of Me • Physical Attraction • Everybody This is 80’s pop music at it’s best. The Queen of Pop is considered the most commercially successful musician of all time. No one else had as many number one hits in four different decades as Madonna.

True love (This time I know it's true love) You're the one I'm dreaming of (The one I'm dreaming of) Your heart fits me like a glove (Heart fits just like a glove) And I'm gonna be true blue, baby, I love you I love you

On August 2 1985, Madonna lost a court battle against director Stephen Jon Lewicki over the video release of A Certain Sacrifice. The low-budget indie film starring Jeremy Pattnosh and Madonna was shot sporadically over a two-year period in New York City between 1979 and 1981. The film also featured Madonna’s former Breakfast Club bandmate Angie Smit in a minor role. Madonna was said to have been unhappy with the inclusion of several topless scenes in the film, although it has also been reported that despite instigating the court case, her lawyers did not present much of an argument during the proceedings, leading some to speculate that she had no serious interest in blocking the release of the film. After a limited number of screenings in New York in October 1985, the film was quickly issued on home video and laserdisc in order to capitalize on Madonna’s fame. In more recent years, the film has been reissued on DVD. Info thanks to Today in Madonna History.

I tried to stay ahead I tried to stay on top I tried to play the part But somehow I forgot Just what I did it for And why I wanted more This type of modern life, is it for me? This type of modern life, is it for free?

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It’s how you pick yourself up that’s the real challenge. Isn’t it?”

September 10, 1986 - True Blue was released as a single in Canada. Written & produced by Madonna & Stephen Bray, the title-track of her third album was a 1960’s Motown-inspired love letter to her husband, Sean Penn. After including True Blue on 1987’s Who’s That Girl World Tour set list, the song appeared to have been written out of Madonna’s repertoire following her split from Sean. By 2015’s Rebel Heart Tour, Madonna had made amens with both Sean and True Blue, performing the track as a stripped-down, crowd-pleasing acoustic number.

August 1 1987 Madonna is interviewed by the Chicago Tribune at her hotel for an article on the Who's That Girl Tour published August 2nd 1987. - 'The Show Goes On Without Sean' - "Goodbye, I love you, goodbye". That`s what Madonna said were her parting words to her husband, actor Sean Penn, before he went to a California jail Friday to begin serving part of a 60-day sentence for punching a movie extra. "I said goodbye to him here in Chicago a couple of days ago" she said Saturday afternoon, sitting on one of the many sofas in her two-story Ritz-Carlton hotel suite, which rents for $2,000 a night. "It`s nice they`re letting him serve only 32 days, and in chunks." Madonna was in Chicago for a Friday-night concert before 47,000 screaming, joyful fans in Soldier Field. "They bait Sean in ways I can`t even tell you. They call me obscene names in front of him just to get him to react. How would you react if someone said that about your wife? An

If the music's pumping it will give you new life You're a superstar Yes, that's what you are, you know it Come on, vogue (vogue) Let your body groove to the music (groove to the music) Hey, hey, hey Come on, vogue (vogue, vogue) Let your body go with the flow (go with the flow) You know you can do it

“Fame is a form of misunderstanding.”

Don't think of yesterday and I don't look at the clock I like to boogie-woogie (Uh-uh!) It's like ridin' on the wind and it never goes away Touches everything I'm in, got to have it every day

An icon of unabashed ambition and sexual magnetism, Madonna has been making headlines since the early MTV Age for her musical talents and much more. Cosmo caught up with the Material Girl in July 1987 to talk about her rising hopes for a career in Hollywood and her then-marriage to bad boy heartthrob Sean Penn. Endearingly frank and forever flirting with the wild side, some things never change: 36 years later, she remains the star we fell for then. - Having been rendered somewhat cautious by Shanghai Surprise, Madonna didn’t leap to say yes when James Foley (who had directed Sean in At Close Range) brought her the script that subsequently became the movie Who’s That Girl—a romantic comedy in which she plays a character much like the one in Desperately Seeking Susan. “I said, ‘I like it, but it needs a lot of work.’ We went through several writers and several revisions of the script until it was just what we wanted.” Director Foley is convinced Madonna was born to be a movie star. “The

May 29, 1998 — Madonna visited The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote her album, Ray Of Light. Madonna sat down for a lengthy interview and performed two songs from her new album, the title track, Ray Of Light, and Little Star – both for the first time on television. The episode marked Madonna’s second visit to Oprah, following a 1996 appearance to promote her film, Evita.

September 8, 1983 - Madonna’s Lucky Star single was released in the UK. Although Lucky Star was issued promotionally as a double A-side with Holiday in the US in September 1983, it was not released commercially in North America until August 1984 when it was issued as the final single from Madonna’s self-titled debut album. Lucky Star was written by Madonna and produced by Reggie Lucas, with additional remixing by Jellybean Benitez. It is the most successful of her North American singles that were entirely self-written, reaching #4 on the U.S. Hot 100 and #8 in Canada (RPM Top 100). It was also her first Top-5 single in the U.S. In the U.K., her self-written single Gambler was a bigger hit, reaching #4 in the fall of 1985, while Lucky Star peaked at #14. Madonna wrote the song in 1982 after landing her first recording contract with Sire Records. It was rumoured to have been written about Mark Kamins, although we’re unsure whether that has ever been confirmed by Madonna herself.

An icon of unabashed ambition and sexual magnetism, Madonna has been making headlines since the early MTV Age for her musical talents and much more. Cosmo caught up with the Material Girl in July 1987 to talk about her rising hopes for a career in Hollywood and her then-marriage to bad boy heartthrob Sean Penn. Endearingly frank and forever flirting with the wild side, some things never change: 36 years later, she remains the star we fell for then. Dreamer, dancer, singer, actor (coming next month: Who’s That Girl with Griffin Dunne), cookie eater…she may just be the biggest star in the entertainment world today. Her first album (Madonna), made in 1983, sold more than 6 million copies; her second (Like a Virgin) sold 14 million; her third (True Blue) has yielded three number one singles, “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Live to Tell,” and “Open Your Heart.” She is also the only female vocalist—so far—to have had five number one hits in the ’80s. Many people may have been surprised by this. Madonn

Madonna’s third studio album True Blue, originally released June 30, 1986. It was the True Blue album that cemented her blonde ambition, cemented her global superstar status, and once and for all erased any lingering doubts about her potential longevity. With more than 25 million worldwide sales, "True Blue" is still their best-selling studio album of all time. It's an integral part of Madonna's prolific canon and a staple on her way to the absolute pinnacle.