SoulAlive said:

they did a great song together

I love it when she suddenly says 'Embrasse moi... Pour la dernière fois' (which means 'Kiss me for the last time' in French...) and Prince replies 'What?'

credited to The Powers That Be

Outtakes from Prince and Madonna’s session for “Like a Prayer” appear on the Prayers Remixed EP. The dub beats version features samples from a then unreleased Prince track titled “Bob George” from his cancelled Black Album.

OldFriends4Sale said:

This question opens a more interesting door, because Prince designed clothing for Madonna, but also of course for himself and his band/proteges. Not to mention others later on. Even a 'gown' Kim Bassinger wore to an award show during the 'Batman' era

Prince designed this below (looks so much like a PR-Parade era style (sorta reminds me of Mazarati)

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...........And to think, all those Madonna fans thought they were copying her style!

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I really loved the ensemble she wore for her tribute to Prince! Very pretty -- lavender, paisley and lace!

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Her singing......not so much.

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cloveringold85 said:

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I really loved the ensemble she wore for her tribute to Prince! Very pretty -- lavender, paisley and lace!

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Her singing......not so much.

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Ha-ha!! Good one!! One of my fave Prince gifys!

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I gather you did not like her outfit?

cloveringold85 said:

Ha-ha!! Good one!! One of my fave Prince gifys!

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I gather you did not like her outfit?

I liked her outfit just not the singing

luv4u said:

cloveringold85 said:

Ha-ha!! Good one!! One of my fave Prince gifys!

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I gather you did not like her outfit?

I liked her outfit just not the singing

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Yea, I dunno if it was just a poor song choice or she was just "off" that night or nervous or what......but, no bueno!

cloveringold85 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

This question opens a more interesting door, because Prince designed clothing for Madonna, but also of course for himself and his band/proteges. Not to mention others later on. Even a 'gown' Kim Bassinger wore to an award show during the 'Batman' era

Prince designed this below (looks so much like a PR-Parade era style (sorta reminds me of Mazarati)

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...........And to think, all those Madonna fans thought they were copying her style!

LOL, I think the look girls were mostly copying, (even though they copied this too) was her

look

I love Madonna as a singer and an artist, but being gay like many of her male fans - never really cared about her sexually or who she had sex with. More a topic for the females and straight male fans of which she must have dozens. She must be as much a draw with straight men as Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Cher and Britney Spears are

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Wether she did or not, I could not care less, but do care that it has been nearly 3 years since Rebel Heart and hopefully Ms Ciccone will grace us with some new music before she hits that big 6 0.

OldFriends4Sale said:

I need to listen to these songs now

credited to The Powers That Be).

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TPTB = Madonna + Patrick Leonard. http://www.madonnatribe.c...-is-god-2/ .

Madonna:......“[He] was a little troll,” she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. “He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”

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Prince similarly kept the public feud going several years later, when he snidely compared the number of his chart-topping songs to Madonna’s many children.

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“I got so many hits y’all can’t handle me,” he said during a 2007 concert in London. “I got more hits than Madonna’s got kids.”
US Magazine

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Prince found Madonna too aggressive. Madonna also thought he “reek[ed]” of lavender, but it turned her on. “After he stopped acting interested in her, that’s when the phone calls started,” Ross said. “Madonna pestered him for weeks. He said later that she screamed at him, ‘How dare you dump me? Don’t you know who I am?’ She was definitely not used to getting dumped.” Freddy DeMann’s assistant told Taraborrelli that Penn punched a hole in Madonna’s wall after discovering she had dated Prince. She phoned Prince to repair it: “You’re responsible for it, after all,” she told him.

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https://www.huffingtonpos...568f833896

Adorecream said:

Whether she did or not, I could not care less, but do care that it has been nearly 3 years since Rebel Heart and hopefully Ms Ciccone will grace us with some new music before she hits that big 6 0.

She's actually working on a new album right now,to be released later this year.

Adorecream said:

I love Madonna as a singer and an artist, but being gay like many of her male fans - never really cared about her sexually or who she had sex with. More a topic for the females and straight male fans of which she must have dozens. She must be as much a draw with straight men as Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Cher and Britney Spears are

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Wether she did or not, I could not care less, but do care that it has been nearly 3 years since Rebel Heart and hopefully Ms Ciccone will grace us with some new music before she hits that big 6 0.

Let's pray for that, and her livin over there in Portugal I hope she makes some interesting music.

cloveringold85 said:

Madonna:......“[He] was a little troll,” she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. “He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”

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Prince similarly kept the public feud going several years later, when he snidely compared the number of his chart-topping songs to Madonna’s many children.

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“I got so many hits y’all can’t handle me,” he said during a 2007 concert in London. “I got more hits than Madonna’s got kids.”
US Magazine

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Prince found Madonna too aggressive. Madonna also thought he “reek[ed]” of lavender, but it turned her on. “After he stopped acting interested in her, that’s when the phone calls started,” Ross said. “Madonna pestered him for weeks. He said later that she screamed at him, ‘How dare you dump me? Don’t you know who I am?’ She was definitely not used to getting dumped.” Freddy DeMann’s assistant told Taraborrelli that Penn punched a hole in Madonna’s wall after discovering she had dated Prince. She phoned Prince to repair it: “You’re responsible for it, after all,” she told him.

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https://www.huffingtonpos...568f833896

Rolling Stone piece in 1998. Here's the relvant excerpt:

Prince’s “When Doves Cry” was another song I used to escape into when it first came out. By then(84) I did have a record contract, and I had moved to a nice loft on Broome and West Broadway. But there was still no elevator, so I had to walk up six flights of steps to get to my loft. I rode my bike everywhere, with a Walkman and headphones on, and one hot summer day I came in and I just couldn’t carry my bike up those stairs one more time. I was hating my family and my life at the time, and I just collapsed in the stairwell with that song playing in my headphones, crying my heart out and feeling incredibly sorry for myself.

http://allaboutmadonna.co...09-23-1998

cloveringold85 said:

Madonna:......“[He] was a little troll,” she said during a 1994 interview, recalling one of their earlier dates. “He was just sipping tea, very daintily. I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”

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Prince similarly kept the public feud going several years later, when he snidely compared the number of his chart-topping songs to Madonna’s many children.

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“I got so many hits y’all can’t handle me,” he said during a 2007 concert in London. “I got more hits than Madonna’s got kids.”
US Magazine

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Prince found Madonna too aggressive. Madonna also thought he “reek[ed]” of lavender, but it turned her on. “After he stopped acting interested in her, that’s when the phone calls started,” Ross said. “Madonna pestered him for weeks. He said later that she screamed at him, ‘How dare you dump me? Don’t you know who I am?’ She was definitely not used to getting dumped.” Freddy DeMann’s assistant told Taraborrelli that Penn punched a hole in Madonna’s wall after discovering she had dated Prince. She phoned Prince to repair it: “You’re responsible for it, after all,” she told him.

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https://www.huffingtonpos...568f833896

https://blog.thecurrent.org/2015/10/prince-serenades-madonna-at-late-night-paisley-park-gig/

Prince serenades Madonna at late-night Paisley Park gig

hirty-three civilians showed up to Paisley Park late last night. I know there were 33 of us because I ended up having plenty of time to count each and every one of us from left to right, then again from right to left and all the way up to the stage, which was littered with dozens of guitar pedals, two keyboard rigs, a drum set, and Prince’s signature glyph microphone.

To celebrate Prince’s legacy, we’re going all-Prince on our Local Current stream of Minnesota music every day through Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, from 11 a.m. to noon. Then, starting at 10 a.m. on Oct. 13, we’ll play our entire Prince catalog from A-Z — over 24 hours of Prince. Listen on our website and via the MPR Radio app for iOS and Android devices.

I had shown up to Paisley Park around 11:30 p.m., having been summoned there only hours earlier with the promise that something “extra-special” might go down. As the 33 of us who were gathered there did our best to stay upright, sway to DJ KISS’s mix of Prince and ’80s pop tunes, and keep our wits about us, and as the clock crept past 1:30 a.m., I was just about to start counting the crowd again and contemplating the strength of that word might when a flurry of security guards with walkie-talkies started buzzing around and a door next to the stage swung open.

A steady stream of people started filing into the venue, and it took me a couple of blinks to realize that the first woman and the head of the pack was Madonna. She is a petite little powerhouse of a figure, and was dressed in a sharp navy trench coat-style cape with her hair neatly woven into a braid that fell down her right shoulder, like a pop star’s rendition of Little Red Riding Hood. Her bright lipstick and dark eyeliner appeared flawless, and as she scanned the strange scene—33 civilians dancing haphazardly, undoubtedly looking tired from all the waiting and the late hour, and her own hits blasting over the sound system—she looked so calm and coiffed that you would have never guessed that she had just finished performing a two-hour show in front of a sold-out crowd at the Xcel Energy Center. (Read Jay Gabler’s revie... to Prince.)

It turns out that injecting Madonna’s entire professional dance troupe into a party is a surefire way to liven it up, and as more and more of the pop icon’s touring crew filtered in, a fully choreographed dance party soon broke out in the middle of the room. It was incredibly surreal standing on the sidelines attempting to groove to the music while what looked like a professional music video shoot sprawled out before us, but all of a sudden the energy in the place had been cranked to 11 and it was all we could do to try to soak up the crew’s ecstatic vibe.

Madonna was ushered into a roped-off section of the room and then disappeared, undoubtedly to have a few private moments with Prince while her team blew off a little steam on the dance floor. By 2:15 a.m. she had returned to the scene and was followed in short order by Prince, who stood near the back of the dance floor draped in a floor-length hooded sweater and smirked at the energetic dancers who were frolicking around the room.

As soon as Prince appeared the small crowd started pressing toward the stage, and even after Madonna’s tour buses had all been unloaded into Paisley Park there were still only roughly 60 people there to take in the impending show. Most of the people in attendance were standing within a couple yards of the band, and Prince seemed a little uncomfortable playing to such an intimate audience.

“You better keep dancing,” he instructed us, sitting at an organ and leading a new configuration of his band through a swampy, funky new song. 3RDEYEGIRL guitarist Donna Grantis was joined by drummer Kirk Johnson and bassist Dwayne MonoNeon Thomas, Jr., who had more jazz and funk sensibilities than Grantis’s more hard-driving 3RDEYEGIRL bandmates Ida Nielsen and Hannah Ford Welton (who was dancing in the audience with her husband, Josh). The change in musicianship allowed Prince to deconstruct his songs into more complex, moody arrangements, tracing back to his roots in late ’70s jazz and funk.

As if to show off the band’s newly discovered chemistry, Prince followed up a rip-roaring rendition of “Guitar” with a lengthy, solo-filled jam to the Bill Withers song “Use Me.” After giving Grantis and his new bassist a turn at soloing, Prince slowed the song down and morphed it into a spacey, dreamy interlude, then tore through an impressive and complex piano solo that sounded like it was inspired in equal measure by Thelonious Monk and Jimi Hendrix.

When Prince launched into the next song, “Ain’t About to Stop,” off his latest album HITNRUN Phase One, I decided to try to discretely scan the room to see where Madonna was taking in the show. I had expected her to hang back a bit, or maybe be sitting in her roped-off area, but once I stepped a little closer to the stage I realized that she was not only in the front row, but had perched on the edge of the stage at Prince’s feet, looking up at him adoringly as he sang.

There is a face that people make when they are watching Prince play guitar; it’s a gleeful expression that combines the joy of going down a roller coaster with the realization that you are witnessing a moment that might never be recreated by another being that lives on this beautiful Earth. It turns out Madonna also makes that face when she is watching Prince play. As the band stretched out into another jam and Prince ripped into a soul-levitating guitar solo, her mouth relaxed into an awestruck gape, revealing a shiny gold grill underneath her perfect red lipstick.

Prince, too, seemed a little awestruck by Madge, appearing nervous as he flitted around the stage to different instruments and taking great care to get the lighting, sound, and chord changes just right. It completely shifted the energy at the Park, which usually pulls like a magnet toward Prince’s spot in the room, and it was a rare chance to see two megastars share an intimate moment and a series of knowing smiles.

After the sixth song of the set, Prince leaned down and whispered something back and forth with Madonna, and then hopped back up to his keyboards and simply said, “Cool.” With that, Madonna made her way out of the building and Prince was left alone with his band and small group of adoring fans, and he delivered simmering renditions of “1000 X’s and O’s” and “X’s Face” before hopping off stage and handing things back to the DJ.

Sensing that we were well past 3 a.m. at that point, I started to make my way toward the door, but my friend and #1 Prince fan Heidi Vader later informed me that Prince returned to play two more short sets and even invited some of his fans up on stage to sing and dance along. Or did any of that really happen? On nights like these, it’s hard to tell.

Prince set list

Stare
Guitar
Use Me (Bill Withers)
Ain’t About to Stop
Pick Out My Clothes
1000 X’s and O’x
X’s Face

Free Yourself

Sign O the Times
Work to Do (Isley Brothers)

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

credited to The Powers That Be

Outtakes from Prince and Madonna’s session for “Like a Prayer” appear on the Prayers Remixed EP. The dub beats version features samples from a then unreleased Prince track titled “Bob George” from his cancelled Black Album.

Wow I can never find this album anymore sitting around, one of the holy grails of Madonna singles. U can clearly hear the Bob George sample and his guitar

paisleypark4 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

credited to The Powers That Be

Outtakes from Prince and Madonna’s session for “Like a Prayer” appear on the Prayers Remixed EP. The dub beats version features samples from a then unreleased Prince track titled “Bob George” from his cancelled Black Album.

Wow I can never find this album anymore sitting around, one of the holy grails of Madonna singles. U can clearly hear the Bob George sample and his guitar

talk about a welcomed addition to the 1988/89 Prince canon playlist

paisleypark4 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

credited to The Powers That Be

Outtakes from Prince and Madonna’s session for “Like a Prayer” appear on the Prayers Remixed EP. The dub beats version features samples from a then unreleased Prince track titled “Bob George” from his cancelled Black Album.

Wow I can never find this album anymore sitting around, one of the holy grails of Madonna singles. U can clearly hear the Bob George sample and his guitar

Holy smoke, what a good Back To The Future surprise!

Her screams at the end of "Act of Contrition" scare the shit out of me.
And so does The Beast Within :

Never was a huge fan of Madonna. But Prince and the dirty trick had dated for awhile. Grew apart; all because Prince wanted to go public with their so-called relationship.

42Kristen said:

Never was a huge fan of Madonna. But Prince and the dirty trick had dated for awhile. Grew apart; all because Prince wanted to go public with their so-called relationship.

what a way to refer to a woman because you don't care for her 42K

djThunderfunk said:

luvsexy4all said:

and stevie nicks too

Stevie Nicks had sex with Madonna?!?

probably ..but i was talking about prince..her people said he was very sleazy

bonatoc said:

paisleypark4 said:

Wow I can never find this album anymore sitting around, one of the holy grails of Madonna singles. U can clearly hear the Bob George sample and his guitar

Holy smoke, what a good Back To The Future surprise!

Her screams at the end of "Act of Contrition" scare the shit out of me.
And so does The Beast Within :

Did you ever see that song acted out on her 'Girlie Show' tour?

CherryMoon57 said:

SoulAlive said:

they did a great song together

I love it when she suddenly says 'Embrasse moi... Pour la dernière fois' (which means 'Kiss me for the last time' in French...) and Prince replies 'What?'

luvsexy4all said:

djThunderfunk said:

Stevie Nicks had sex with Madonna?!?

probably ..but i was talking about prince..her people said he was very sleazy

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Madonna's people said Prince was sleazy?

cloveringold85 said:

luvsexy4all said:

probably ..but i was talking about prince..her people said he was very sleazy

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Madonna's people said Prince was sleazy?

stevie nicks people

luvsexy4all said:

cloveringold85 said:

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Madonna's people said Prince was sleazy?

stevie nicks people

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Have they looked in a mirror?

Like A Prayer is the first track on Madonna's fourth album Like A Prayer. It was long thought that the album version contained no Prince input, and only some of the remixes contain Prince's, however in a 2014 interview Patrick Leonard, the songs producer revealed it's actually Prince on guitar at the very beginning of the song before the door slams. The 12-inch containing the versions with a bit more of Prince's uncredited guitar input were released three weeks prior to the album's release on Like A Prayer, the album's first single.

While specific recording dates for Prince's guitar solo contribution are not known, his solo was recorded in mid-November 1988, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota.

princevault

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5944767/madonna-producer-patrick-leonard-talks-like-a-prayer-at-25

Prince turns up on the album, obviously, on "Love Song," the song he and Madonna did together. I've read that his guitar work is on "Keep It Together" somewhere.
Patrick Leonard:
What I know is that his guitar work is on, when you start "Like a Prayer," the guitar that you hear before the door slams…

The distorted guitar?
Patrick Leonard:
That's Prince. What happened is, [Madonna] sent him something to play on and he played on it and sent it back. And we didn't feel that what he did served it. But that piece, that beginning, is him.

Recently, I listened to [the song "Like a Prayer"] -- I hadn't heard it years. There's a heavy rock guitar that's in the bridges -- I don't think it's Prince. There's a heavy guitar in the choruses and when I heard it, I thought: "Did we use his guitar in those bridges?" Because the sound is similar to the first sound [in the opening], but it's not exactly the same. . . . But I know for a fact that we did use that [Prince] thing as the intro, because we just thought it was crazy and really cool. I seem to recall that that's all we used, but I could be wrong.