Madonna - Like A Virgin (Remix/Edit)

DEDICATED TO NILE RODGERS

Last Friday I felt privileged to see Nile Rodgers and Chic perform live in Buenos Aires. They were opening act for the Pet Shop Boys. I was plesantly surprised at the close contact he kept with the audience, and most of all his humbleness, this guy is pretty much a living legend in the pop music industry. They sounded as funky as ever, this man is 57 years old and had more energy than me!

The band played some Chic songs like “Le Freak”, “Good Times” and did a great mash-up of their “Soup For One” with Modjo’s “Lady” which sampled from the track. The band also played songs from other artists which Nile produced, such as Sister’s Sledge “We Are Family”, “Thinking Of You”, Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out”, David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”, and Madonna’s “Like A Virgin”.

All in all, his show was a shot of good vibes, funk, and humbleness.

Thanks for the music!

Biography

Influential guitarist, songwriter and producer, born 19 September 1952 in New York City. A leading light of the disco scene in the late 1970’s, he recorded as part of Chic and with bandmate Bernard Edwards produced many of the most popular and memorable disco hits of the 1970’s and 1980’s. You can take a look at the entry Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers for a more complete list of their works together. Rodgers produced artists like Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Mick Jagger, INXS, Thompson Twins, Grace Jones, B-52’s, The and Beavis & Butt-Head and is responsible as either artist, producer or writer of songs that have accounted for sales of over 100,000,000 records.
Rodgers is also the first African-American to own his own national music distribution company Sumthing Else MusicWorks, Inc., which is a leader in the distribution of video game soundtracks.

Nile produced the entire “Like A Virgin” album, playing guitar on all tracks and the synclavier on “Material Girl” and “Stay”. As a producer, this collaboration was among his biggest achievements.

Song Information

“Like a Virgin” is the first single by Madonna from the homonymous album and was released on November 6, 1984 by Sire Records.

The song slammed onto the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the week of November 17, 1984 at #48, and shot up the chart rapidly, reaching #1 by its sixth week, December 22, 1984. It was the first of four top five singles from the album. “Like a Virgin” remained in the Top 10 for nine weeks, in the Top 20 for eleven weeks, and in the Top 40 for fourteen weeks.

Internationally, the song was a Top 5 hit and reached the top spot in numerous countries. In the UK it was a massive hit reaching No.3 and selling over 760,000 copies, becoming Madonna’s second best-selling single in the UK to date. It was her first number one single in Australia, Canada and Japan.

The Remix/Edit

There was no 7″ remix released for “Like A Virgin”, the album version was the hit version. An extended dance remix for the 12″ single was commissioned to John “Jellybean” Benitez.

Six years later, a remix was done by Shep Pettibone for 1990’s “The Immaculate Collection“. Since all these versions are easily obtainable, I thought it more fun to include an edited version of the dance mix I did years ago.

Hope you enjoy it!

Label:

Sire Records Company

Track Listing and Details:

1. Like A Virgin (Remix/Edit) (4:00) (unofficial)

Rip Information:

Source: CD

Format: mp3

Bitrate: 320 kbps

Password: steptothebeat

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MADONNA IS ONE NOISY MOTHER!

Madonna’s neighbors are less than pleased with  the material girl’s love of pumping  up the volume in her Manhattan apartment.

Karen George, Madonna’s neighbor filed a law suit claiming: “blaring music, stomping and shaking walls, for up to three hours each day… and… unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music and vibrations pouring through walls, ceilings and radiators,” are what her and neighbors have to endure.

At least Madonna is raising her musician and performer daughter, Loudres Ciccone in the right vein to encourage maximum musical creativity. Madonna’s message, “turn my  music up.” She sounds like a fun mom.

[Vintage Madonna Image via Esty. Image of Lourdes Ciccone by LoveMadonnaRussia]

~posted by Horiwood.Com, Saturday 17th October 2009, Hollywood California USA~

Luiza Possi vai cantar ao lado da irmã de Michael Jackson em homenagem ao astro publicado por Juliano Berenyi Cerqueira em: Michael Jackson Acontece

Uma homenagem para lá de especial a Michael Jackson vai acontecer no dia 12 de novembro, no Via Funchal, em São Paulo.

Luiza Possi vai subir no palco para cantar ao lado de Latoya Jackson, a irmã de Michael Jackson. A cantora postou uma mensagem em seu twitter avisando sobre a apresentação.

“Agora uma bomba! Atenção! Vou cantar com a Latoya Jackson no dia 12 de novembro, no Via Funchal. Tributo ao Michael Jackson! Sim, estou emocionada!”, publicou ela.

Com certeza vai fazer bonito!

Madonna for D&G and more news

from madonnatribe

With the release of the Celebration album and single and the coming release of the Sticky and Sweet tour on dvd it would seem logic for any artist to take a pause and enjoy the success but that doesn’t happen to Madonna, who is working on more releases for her fans to enjoy.
First of all there’s Revolver, the second new track on her greatest hits album that, as previously reported by MadonnaTribe a while back, will be the second single release off the compilation. The news is that lots of remixers have been contacted to remix the song and among them we find Tracy Young, David Guetta and Paul Van Dyke.
But for die hard fans the most exciting news regarding her music is that for Christmas we’ll also get brand new house remixes of two of her biggest classics: Holiday and Into The Groove!

Meanwhile Madonna will also be busy with another fashion campaign. She will team up again with photographer Steven Klein next month for the new Dolce & Gabbana campaign, but the cool thing is that this time she will model not for the women’s collection but for the men’s! We are sure Madonna and Klein will come up with some great ideas for this one!

Like a Virgin

Madonna was laatst op David Letterman. Perfect strakgetrokken gezicht, afgetraind lijf en ze flirtte ondeugend met de presentator. Het kan dus echt tegenwoordig: voor altijd jong. Na de piek van haar carrière kreeg ze kinderen, op 38- en bijna 42-jarige leeftijd. Op 48-jarige leeftijd adopteerde ze een zoon, en dit jaar, op 50-jarige leeftijd, adopteerde ze een dochter. Zien gezinnen van topvrouwen er in de toekomst allemaal zo uit?
Het goede nieuws is dat het tegenwoordig kan, topvrouw zijn. In dat opzicht is de feministische golf geslaagd. Maar hoe dat te combineren met moederschap, daarover vliegen wij vrouwen elkaar nog steeds in de haren. Oude feministen zweren bij quota, positieve discriminatie en opgelegde cultuurveranderingen. Vrouwen, de ‘niggers of the world’, moeten geholpen worden. Nieuwe feministen zoals Heleen Mees denken dat vrouwen mannen in de kast zijn. We moeten durven uitkomen voor onze carrièredrive. Niks borstvoeding, gratis kinderopvang en excuustruzen, maar laten zien dat je je mannetje kunt staan. Letterlijk. Dumpen in de crèche die kinderen, als je ze al neemt. Dat moet. De antifeminist Marike Stellinga gruwelt van al deze ideeën en beweert dat vrouwen helemaal geen mannencarrière willen. Nederland is een vrouwenparadijs, omdat het kleine-baantjes-ethos gesneden is op het vrouwenlijf. We willen moederen. Laat ons.
Het combineren van carrière en moederschap blijft knellen. Het kost allebei tijd en energie en moet min of meer tegelijkertijd gebeuren. We kunnen het kindjes maken uitstellen, massaal aan de IVF en adoptie, en met botox en liposuctie jong blijven. Kijk naar Madonna: het kan, maar het is wel een beetje eng. Het is gezonder als vrouwen op het werk later kunnen pieken dan mannen, zodat we eerst meer van ons kroost en later meer van ons werk kunnen genieten. Dat is pas een vrouwenparadijs.

De onmogelijke opdracht luidde: schrijf een column van 300 woorden waarin je de volgende stelling verdedigt of weerlegt: “Vrouwen moeten meer tijd hebben voor zelf-ontplooiing en daarom moet de vruchtbaarheidsleeftijd zo lang mogelijk kunstmatig worden verlengd”. Geweldig idee. Not. Deze column had gepubliceerd moeten worden in NRC Next, maar helaas kozen ze een andere…

It's all about the picks!

For many people playing guitar may seem to be a simply thing to do, but in fact it’s everything but that! Apart from the music theory and techniques, the wannabe guitar player has to choose strings, amps, effects, straps and of course picks!

It’s a common thing for the guitarists to throw the picks to the fans, after the end of some rockin’ song or in the finale, and both Madonna and Monte Pittman have done that! So here are their picks that some very lucky fans were handed!

Madonna, Monte Pittman and Stuart Price signature picks!

Monte Pittman has preferred in the last tours the Tortext (by Dunlop) picks while Madonna almost always plays with her golden nylon one!

It’s the small details that make the difference What kind of pick do you have??

P.S. thanks to anna-clare.com for some of the above photos!

On working with Madonna David Foster On Whitney, Madonna, and Finding the Next Big Thing

David Foster On Madonna
Wednesday 07 October

“Working with Madonna was an amazing experience for me. She is such a professional, always on time, her work ethic is unbelievable. I had a great time with her, and we had a hit together that together that we wrote called ‘You’ll See,’ which was on her Greatest Hits album.”

May12 David Foster talks about Madonna

“Madonna was great to work with because — I never really understood her mystique although I always liked her music. We met in New York, had dinner to discuss the album. And there was something so intoxicating about her. We were just the two of us at dinner and I was looking at her going, ‘Wow, she totally sucks you into her world. It’s like there’s nobody else in the restaurant.’ She had a great work ethic. A lot of artists, they want to be co producers just because they can. She wanted to be a co producer, but she earned it. She really knows her way around a studio. She works hard.”
source : ctv.ca