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☆ ‘Madonna’ at 40: An oral history of the Queen of Pop’s debut album
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

“Madonna” the album served as an explosive entry for the trained dancer-turned-singer on the road to being so much more. There was a boombox in the room, and Rosenblatt played her demo again for Stein while Madonna was there. But before that it didn’t (exist).”Still, Rosenblatt knew a star when he saw one, and Stein agreed. “We met everybody and everybody loved her, everybody just loved her. “I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me.

Persons: CNN —, “, Michael Rosenblatt, Madonna –, –, ” Rosenblatt, ’, ‘, ” “, ”, Madonna, Michael McDonnell, ” Bobby Shaw –, Mark Kamins, Danceteria ” Rosenblatt, George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, we’re, ’ ” Rosenblatt, Mark, Peter Noble, Rosenblatt, I’m, ’ ”, it’s, Dick Clark, Seymour Stein, Stein, Seymour, wasn’t, Debbie Harry, Everybody’s, Bobby Shaw’s, didn’t, ” Shaw, there’s, Shaw, Reggie Lucas –, John ‘ Jellybean ’ Benitez, ’ ” Stein, “ We’re, Michael Ochs, Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker, Lucas, Benitez, Christopher Ciccone, James Colburn, Madonna’s, Olivia Newton John, ‘ Seymour, she’s, she’d, Barbara Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, ” Madonna Organizations: CNN, Sire Records, Garment, Alamy, ‘, Warner Bros . Records, Warner Records, Warner Bros, Warner, Garden, Michael Ochs Archives, West, ”, MTV, Radio City Music Hall, ZUMA Press Locations: New York City, York City, New York, Michigan, Paris, England, Danceteria, , New York City, Munich, Los Angeles, LA, West Coast, “, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Key

☆ Concert season is so weird right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Which “hurls” us into this week’s newsletter…Something to sip on…Pink performs on stage during a concert in Vienna, on July 1. ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images“No home training.” – That’s what my late grandmother would have said about people who are throwing things at artists during concerts these days. Because clearly, if you are throwing things during a concert, you want to be a part of the performance. The married couple have a new weekly podcast, “The Best Podcast Ever.” Part of iHeartMedia’s Outspoken series, the project aims to amplify voices throughout the LGBTQ+ community. “The Best Podcast Ever” debuts July 10.

Persons: Pink, ALEX HALADA, ”, Lil Nas, Bebe Rexha, wilding, You’re, Tik tok, don’t, Charlie Puth, Adele, … Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, That’s, ” “ Oppenheimer, Barbie ”, “ Barbie, Miranda Maday, Valerie Macon, Symoné, Miranda Pearman, “, Count, … Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael, Wham, Andrew Ridgeley, It’s, Michael Organizations: CNN, Getty, Lucasfilm, BEST, Netflix, Wembley Locations: Vienna, AFP, Stockholm, New York City, Vegas, Beverly Hills, China, England

☆ Andrew Ridgeley on George Michael and Life After Wham!
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you weren’t a teenager in 1984, it might be hard to understand this, but here goes: There are Gen X-ers who remember where they were the first time they saw the video for the Wham! clap-along pop anthem “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.”In it, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, the heartthrob frontmen of Wham!, wear big smiles and beachy short shorts as they perform their infectious bop — titled after a note Ridgeley had once left on his family’s refrigerator — for a small crowd of adoring fans. Ridgeley, who turned 60 in January, remembers making it as great fun. “It was our first video with an audience,” he said during a recent video interview from his home in London. “The atmosphere was really quite excitable and exciting.”Ridgeley and his bandmate are the subject of “Wham!,” a new documentary that premieres on Wednesday on Netflix.

Persons: George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, beachy, Ridgeley, Crüe, ”, Chris Smith Organizations: Netflix Locations: London

☆ ‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The new documentary about George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley and the music they made as Wham! — it’s just called “Wham!” — found me in a moment of need for a nostalgic, fantastical elixir, something short, sweet and tangential to my feeling of national blues. For one thing, Wham!, the duo, made soul music that popped. And the movie dances past all of the thorny moral and ethical questions of white people making Black stuff. The disembodied voices of Michael and Ridgeley guide the whole thing — rumination and memory as narration.

Persons: George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, —, George, Barry Manilow, Freddie Mercury, Billy Joel, Oates, Chris Smith, Michael’s, ”, Ridgeley’s misapprehended, “ Son, Albert, Michael, Ridgeley, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, Richard Simmons Organizations: BBC Locations: England, scrapbooks

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