The story goes like this:
In the early 80's Madonna sat in with
Was (Not Was) to record backing vocals (to Ozzy Osbourne's main vox) for their track
Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed). Everything was peachy until Madonna's record label, Sire, refused to grant ZE Records permission to publish her recording. So other voices sang of things that cannot be done. Fast-forward ten years and the hits collection
Hello Dad, I'm In Jail included the track and, again, the Madonna vocal was not released for use. (This time
Kim Basinger's new backing track got the spot.) The new Basinger-backed single peaked at #4 on the UK charts and featured a b-side remix by producer
Steve 'Silk' Hurley. However, a glorious blunder resulted in a recall of the single: ZE had sent Hurley Madonna's background vocals. The mistake wasn't caught until after pressing and lo! a very few copies of the record made it out into the world. And so, music fans, for a cool G you can lay hands on your own copy of
Shake Your Head (Let's Go to Bed), featuring the b-side dub, the
rarest of Madonna recordings.
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posted by carsonb
on May 12, 2008 -
49 comments
Madonna's being sued for stealing images from Guy Boudin's photography and using them in her Hollywood video.
Here are side by sides. When does imitation/homage become theft? And who gets to decide? Should she have been sued for using
this image in her vogue video?
posted by archimago
on Sep 30, 2003 -
86 comments
From the Bad-Rumors-That-Unfortunately-Turn-Out-To-Be-True Department:
Britney Spears
confirms duet with Madonna. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(I admire Madonna's knack for perpetual self-reinvention and surprising everyone with what she's cooked up next, but really, this is something I'm sure I'd be
quite happy to live without.)
posted by lia
on Jan 21, 2001 -
34 comments
