Madonna Crazy For You UNCUT Picture Disc '90

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 Extremely rare UNcut picture disk for the re-release of Crazy About You from the UK in 1990.

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If there are doubters who remain among the un-seduced or uninitiated, Warner Bros. Records has announced that Madonna is now issuing “Celebration” – the definitive collection of a mere 35 of the Material Girl’s multitude of greatest hits. Included in the CD set are two new songs, “Revolver” and the current single also titled “Celebration” – a thumpy valedictory ’09 dance party if there ever was one and already a Number One hit around the globe.

Madonna is still the clearest, most insistent and passionately sustained female voice in pop culture around the world. She remains a constantly transforming cultural icon – at once revolutionary, chameleon, provocative, fearless, vampish, defiant, impresario, celestial body, maternal, child like, enabler, seductive spinning top, liberator, show off and show down – more facets than the crown jewels. A fact of daily life –not simply a mirror of the times – but a one-woman multi-channel cable system. Google “Pope” and you get 48 million hits. Google “Madonna” and you get 76 million.

It’s pretty amazing how long Madonna has managed to hold on to the slippery pole of public celebrity. She proudly announced from the get go to Dick Clark circa 1982, “I wanna rule the world”. This was around the time she was also being dismissed as a “one hit wonder”…Luckily, the naysayers propelled Madonna to “dance and sing – get up and do her thing” in bigger and bolder ways. Like Babe Ruth, she pointed up at the stands (in Madonna’s case – to the stars) and predicted where that ball was going and the home run that would follow. And waddaya know – she knocked it out of the park.

Amidst Madonna’s involvement in realms as diverse as fashion, humanitarianism, author of a sex book and a series of children’s books, feminism, art, politics, journalism, video visionary, photography, philanthropy, documentary films to name a few, it’s easy to get distracted and lose sight of her genius for writing and producing songs for the last 26 years.

She was also starring in her own now legendary life tales: Madonna’s arrived from Michigan with $38.00 in her pocket and a little suitcase. “Take me to the center of everything,” she told the cab driver who drove her directly to Times Square. She waited in the hallway for hours in between dance class for a glimpse at her idol, Martha Graham. She ate potato chips out of garbage cans in a run down studio building, which doubled as her home. She posed nude for art classes to earn money. She started a band “The Breakfast Club” in an abandoned synagogue in Queens, her next home. She auditioned for record giant Seymour Stein in front of his hospital bed -- where he immediately signed her. A career-suicide or career-defining moment at the first MTV Awards where Madonna rolled around the floor lasciviously in a wedding dress. And that’s not even the end of the first chapter. Eight years later, Madonna proclaimed to People Magazine, “Don’t tell me what to do just ‘cause I’m a girl. Don’t tell me I can’t be sexual and intelligent at the same time.”

Besides stretching out her own artistic visions and abilities, she’s also demonstrated again and again a savvy knack for talent spotting. In matrix with her music career, she forged working relationships with pioneering producers including Stuart Price. Mirwais Ahmadzai, William Orbit and others who helped her slingshot facets of European trance music and electronica onto a new international stage. She’s also worked together with Hip Hop Hipsters including Pharrell, Timbaland, Kanye West and Justin Timberlake.

As one of the first superstars of the MTV era, she brought the subject of image and iconography to a whole new level working with legendary photographers – Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, Tom Munro and Stephen Klein – and commercially successful Hollywood directors including David Fincher, Warren Beatty and Mary Lambert. This marriage of images and music took the power of radio popularity and wedded it to mainstream reach television, which has all now been magnified by the World Wide Web.

Legions of fans on every continent have followed Madonna by song, video, book, TV, film, live performance, CD, DVD and satellite. She’s sold more than 200 million records and has appeared on well over a thousand magazine covers. She’s won seven Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe for “Evita” and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Her voice still takes us there over and over – again and again. Her lyrics have entered the global cultural landscape as coins of the realm. What a musical journey it’s been.

Long Live Madonna!

From www.madonna.com

Please note that I do offer a return policy where if you are not happy you have 7 days upon receipt within which to contact me to arrange the return for a refund of the purchase price (shipping not included). However, be aware that this is a test pressing and not a commercial release. My goal is that it is NOT returned. ;-)