| 8-16-00 |
Happy Birthday, Madonna! -Launch
(8/16/00, 2 p.m. ET) - Today (August 16) Madonna
celebrates her 42nd birthday. Born Madonna Louise
Veronica Ciccone in Rochester, Michigan, in 1958,
Madonna's rise to stardom came quickly following
the release of her self-titled debut album in
1983. |
| 8-15-00 |
Madonna Birth Not
Traumatic, Says Rep -Wall
of Sound
Mystery continues to surround details of the
birth of Madonna's second child, but the pop
singer's rep says there was never any emergency
surgery nor danger of losing baby Rocco during a
traumatic delivery. |
| 8-15-00 |
Madonna Gives Birth to a
Baby Boy -Rolling Stone
Three weeks before her due date, Madonna gave
birth to a baby boy on Friday in Los Angeles.
"English film director Guy Ritchie and
Madonna are delighted to announce the birth of
their son, Rocco Ritchie," read a statement
from the singer's record label, Warner Brothers.
|
| 8-14-00 |
ER Surgery Saved
Madonna's Baby -Wall of
Sound
Madonna was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital
Friday with abdominal pain and bleeding, and
doctors performed emergency surgery to save her
unborn baby boy, the BBC reports. |
| 8-12-00 |
Really Randoms: Madonna, Slipknot -Rolling Stone
The British felt a little chillier towards
Madonna Thursday, after she revealed to a Los
Angeles DJ that she is planning to return to
America to give birth to her child because of
what she called the deplorable state of U.K.
hospitals. |
| 8-11-00 |
It's A Boy! Madonna Is A Mommy Once
Again -Launch
Assoc: Madonna Genre: pop, dance It's A Boy!
Madonna Is A Mommy Once Again (8/11/00, 6 p.m.
ET) - Madonna gave birth to a baby boy named
Rocco Ritchie today (August 11), just five days
before her own 42nd birthday. |
| 8-11-00 |
Madonna
Delivers Baby Boy -Wall of
Sound
Madonna got an early birthday present today. The
singer, who turns 42 Aug. 16, gave birth to a
baby boy approximately one month prior to her
official due date. |
| 8-9-00 |
U.S.
States Sue Labels Over Price Fixing -Rolling Stone
A coalition of thirty states, commonwealths and
territories led by New York and Florida filed a
lawsuit Tuesday against the nation's largest
record labels as well as some retailers, accusing
them of CD price fixing. |
| 8-3-00 |
Free
Madonna: As in You Won't Have to Pay! -amuZnet
Madonna's new track "Music" got some
early press at the beginning of the summer
because the single from her newest album was
already showing up online, but BBC Online reports
that it will be given away free this Wednesday.
|
| 8-2-00 |
Madonna
Remixes for Download
-amuZnet
Madonna’s popular song “Music” has
been the subject of many a remix. Some of these
new renditions will be available for free
download until August 16. |
| 7-31-00 |
Madonna
Remixers Say Music Breaks New Ground -SonicNet
Madonna 's forthcoming album Music is an
intriguing, groundbreaking album, according to
the remixers of the title single. British duo
Groove Armada and veteran Los Angeles house DJ
Richard "Humpty" Vission — who,
along with Washington, D.C., duo Deep Dish and
other dance artists, have submitted remixes of
"Music" — say the 41-year-old
singer continues to break barriers between pop
and electronic music. |
| 7-20-00 |
Malaysian
Pirates Prepare to Pack Their Bags -amuZnet
The glory days are over for the infamous optical
disc pirates of Malaysia. According to the
Recording Industry of Malaysia, much-needed
antipiracy legislation will soon be passed by the
country' Senate. |
| 7-11-00 |
Madonna
Preps 'Music' For A September 19 Release -Launch
(7/11/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Madonna 's new album Music
will be released worldwide September 19 via
Warner Bros. Records, reports her manager Caresse
Henry . |
| 6-16-00 |
Madonna
Buys London Home -Wall of
Sound
Just like the Jeffersons, Madonna is movin' on
up. The pop phenomenon has found herself a chic
new millionaire mansion in London, ending not
only the torment of house hunting, but also
— hopefully — the tiresome parade of
stalkers and burglars who chose to flock to her
former rental property. |
| 6-16-00 |
Madonna's
"Music" Out Sooner?
-Spin
Given that a whole lotta people have probably
already heard it on the Internet, Madonna might
just release her new single, "Music," a
bit sooner than expected. |
| 6-8-00 |
Burglars
Hit Madonna's London Home
-Wall of Sound
While a glowing Madonna greeted fans and press at
the London premiere of her latest movie, The Next
Best Thing , burglars were pilfering the Material
Girl's Kensington District property in an attempt
to rob the diva of her material goods. |
| 6-8-00 |
Madonna
Burgled! -Spin
Any time I get the opportunity to say
"burgled" in a serious context is a
happy time indeed. Here I go: According to
Reuters, the pop diva's fancy London home was
recently burgled! |
| 6-2-00 |
Really
Randoms: Madonna, Dave Matthews Band -Rolling Stone
With a baby and an album due in September, it
looks like Madonna may have another project on
her hands -- a legal battle with Napster. Samples
of the first single, "Music,"
(co-produced by William Orbit and French dance
artist Mirwais) from her upcoming album of the
same name, were leaked to fan sites and traded on
Napster over the weekend. |
| 6-1-00 |
Madonna
Takes on Napster -Spin
Well, it was only a matter of time before the
shit really hit the fan, you know? After clips
from the title track of Madonna's upcoming album
Music escaped onto the Web this weekend, the
material girl's manager released a statement to
MTV News calling the sound bytes (from 30 seconds
to 3 minutes of the amped-up title track)
"stolen," as the work is unfinished and
not intended for release until late September or
early October. |
| 6-1-00 |
Madonna's
New Single Leaked to Internet
-Wall of Sound
Metallica and Dr. Dre may soon be the least of
Napster's headaches. Madonna's forthcoming single
"Music," from the album of the same
name, began circulating in cyberspace last
weekend, months before its scheduled release.
|
| 6-1-00 |
Madonna's
'Music' Leaked On The Internet; Warner Bros.
Threatens Legal Action
-LAUNCH
(6/1/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Madonna 's first single,
"Music," from her upcoming album of the
same name, has made its unauthorized debut on the
Internet months before its intended release,
prompting Warner Bros. Records and Madonna's
manager to threaten legal action on Wednesday
(May 31) against any Internet sites that offer
the download. |
| 5-23-00 |
Sound
Bites: Bobby Brown, Chrissie Hynde, Madonna -Wall of Sound
Bobby Brown Stays in Jail On Monday, a circuit
judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., decreed that
singer Bobby Brown is to remain behind bars until
his June 19 hearing. |
| 5-22-00 |
Maverick
Records to Launch Latin Division -Vibe
Madonna's Maverick Recording Company is scheduled
to launch a Latin music division. Maverick will
strategically partner with WEA Latina to bring
about the next Latino sensation following the
success of Latino superstars such as Ricky Martin
and Marc Anthony. |
| 5-20-00 |
Madonna's
Man Guy Ritchie Arrested
-LAUNCH
(5/20/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Guy Ritchie , 31, the
director of the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels , was arrested in London on May
18 for an alleged assault on a 20-year-old man
outside the Kensington home he shares with
Madonna , 41. |
| 5-19-00 |
Madonna's
Boy Toy Arrested -Wall of
Sound
The boyfriend of American pop diva Madonna was
arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man outside
the pregnant star's London home, police said
today. Media reports said the man was believed to
be a fan waiting outside Madonna's house in an
attempt to get a glimpse of her. |
| 5-19-00 |
Madonna's
Boyfriend Arrested -Spin
That would suck if your boyfriend were arrested.
No nookie, that's for sure. And what's Madonna
with no Nookie?! Well, that's what she is right
this very second, as her film director boyfriend
Guy Ritchie was recently arrested for allegedly
assaulting a man outside Madonna's $3 million
rented home in London's Kensington district.
|
| 5-18-00 |
Sound
Bites: Madonna, Eagles, James Brown, Jagger -Wall of Sound
Madonna's New Deal Maybe The Next Best Thing
wasn't, but somebody still thinks Madonna has
box-office appeal. British director Peter
Greenaway ( The Pillow Book ; The Cook, the
Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover ) has tapped the
singer to play a femme fatale in his forthcoming
The Pulse Luper Trilogy , it was announced at the
Cannes Film Festival Wednesday. |
| 5-16-00 |
Rock
Hall of Fame Salutes Style
-Rolling Stone
Do clothes make the band, or do bands transform
clothes into something other? That's one of the
questions the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum raised this weekend as the "Rock
Style" exhibit opened in Cleveland with a
fund-raising party Friday night, which featured
performances by fashion-backward acts Cheap
Trick, the Neville Brothers and Michael Fredo.
|
| 5-15-00 |
Rock
Hall Puts Fashion on Display
-Wall of Sound
CLEVELAND — David Bowie mocked it, Freddie
Mercury flaunted it, Madonna took it into the
bedroom, Elvis and The Beatles reinvented it, and
now the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has put it on
display. |
| 5-2-00 |
Madonna
Denies Breakup Rumors -Wall
of Sound
In an earlier incarnation, Madonna was known for
her prowess with a blindfold and a gag in her
videos. Now, she'd probably like to use them on
the British tabloids. |
| 5-1-00 |
Beck
Sexes Up Seattle -Wall of
Sound
SEATTLE — Never one to scrimp on verve and
showmanship, Beck treated a Friday night
near-capacity crowd at the Mercer Arena to a
tireless set that was equal parts Prince, Exile
on Main Street -era Mick Jagger, and free-flowing
street performance. |
| 5-1-00 |
Madonna
and Ritchie on the Rocks?
-Wall of Sound
If you believe the U.K. tabloids, it was a
tumultuous weekend for Madonna and her lover, Guy
Ritchie. The couple, expecting their first child
together in September, has apparently locked
horns over whether they should live in London or
Los Angeles. |
| 4-20-00 |
Madonna
Adds a French Twist to Forthcoming
"Music" -Rolling
Stone
Two years ago, Madonna kicked her floundering
music career back into high-gear by teaming up
with underground ambient producer William Orbit
on the acclaimed Ray of Light . |
| 4-13-00 |
Limp
Bizkit's Durst Teams With Fincher to Direct Film -Wall of Sound
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is threatening to
become the Master P of the rock world. Like the
rap mogul, who has branched out from music to
film, the man of many baseball caps has just
signed on to direct the full-length feature Runt
, the story of a bullied high schooler who fights
back, reports Variety . |
| 3-21-00 |
Madonna
With Child -Rolling Stone
It looks like Madonna's world tour will be
delayed again. The forty-one-year-old
Grammy-winning singer will instead reprise her
role as a Material Mom this fall. |
| 3-20-00 |
Madonna
Pregnant: -Spin
Madonna is reportedly pregnant with her second
child. After months of rumors, and major
interviews in which she spoke about wanting
another child, a source at her label has
confirmed that the 41 year old pop icon is three
months pregnant. |
| 3-20-00 |
Napster
Remains King of MP3 Swapping
-Rolling Stone
Napster can breathe a sigh of relief, for now.
Earlier this week the massively popular online
site for MP3 file swapping thought it had a major
new competitor on its hands when AOL's Nullsoft,
makers of the popular digital music player
Winamp, launched its own file-sharing site dubbed
Gnutella. |
| 3-20-00 |
Madonna
With Child... Again -LAUNCH
(3/20/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Madonna is pregnant with
her second child. In a statement issued today
(March 20), the "Material Mom and the
child's father, British director Guy Ritchie ,
said that they "are happy to confirm the
rumors that they are expecting a child at the end
of this year." |
| 3-6-00 |
Charts:
Oasis, Madonna Tops in UK:
-Spin
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants , Oasis'
fourth, studio album entered the UK charts at No.
1 yesterday after moving over 200,000 units in
its debut week. |
| 3-3-00 |
Madonna
to Marry?: -Spin
On a press junket for her new film The Next Best
Thing , Madonna has been forthcoming about her
previously off-limits relationship with UK
filmmaker Guy Ritchie (director of last year's
cult hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ).
|
| 3-3-00 |
Madonna's
'The Next Best Thing' Opens Nationwide Today -LAUNCH
(3/3/00, 5 p.m. ET) - The film The Next Best
Thing opens on more than 2,000 theater screens in
the U.S. and Canada today (March 3). For the
event, LAUNCH speaks to the key people ultimately
responsible for the success of the film and its
accompanying soundtrack, including Rupert Everett
, Benjamin Bratt , William Orbit , Don McLean ,
and, of course, Madonna . |
| 2-24-00 |
Featured
Releases: Madonna, Yo La Tengo
-Rolling Stone
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself
Inside-Out (Matador) Various Artists The Next
Best Thing: Music From the Motion Picture
(Maverick) This soundtrack from Madonna's latest
pic would be a sure-fire success even if pared
down to a mere three songs. |
| 2-16-00 |
Really
Randoms: Madonna, Oasis
-Rolling Stone
Madonna's take on Don McLean's "American
Pie" has already won the favor of radio
listeners, and on Feb. 22, Maverick Recordings
will make the song available for consumers with
the release of the soundtrack for The Next Best
Thing . |
| 2-15-00 |
Madonna,
The Artist Get Razzie Noms
-Wall of Sound
Yes, it's awards season. But there's one statue
no artist wants to win, and that's the Golden
Raspberry. Unfortunately for them, both Madonna
and The Artist Formerly Known as Prince have been
handed nominations. |
| 2-7-00 |
Madonna
The Maternal Girl Once Again?
-LAUNCH
(2/7/00, 12 p.m. ET) - Madonna is ready for her
daughter Lourdes (who is nicknamed Lola ) to have
a sibling. "Hopefully I'll have another
child and I won't be a single mother," the
singer said recently when she met with reporters
to promote her upcoming film, The Next Best Thing
. |
| 2-5-00 |
Madonna
Invests in Online -Rolling
Stone
Suddenly, the Material Girl is shopping an awful
lot online. Just one day after it was announced
that the singer's new cover of Don McClean's
"American Pie," would be available
exclusively for online listening at America
Online, we discover the singer has quietly
invested in Listen.com, a leading directory of
downloadable music. |
| 2-3-00 |
Madonna
-- Why, Why Sing 'American Pie?' -LAUNCH
(2/3/00, 4 p.m. ET) - Madonna 's updated version
of the 1971 Don McLean classic "American
Pie" -- from the soundtrack to the new film,
The Next Best Thing -- is currently getting
plenty of radio airplay. |
| 2-3-00 |
Madonna
And William Orbit -- The Dream Team -LAUNCH
(2/3/00, 1 p.m. ET) - Madonna intends to spend
the first half of 2000 working on a follow-up to
her Grammy Award-winning album, Ray Of Light .
LAUNCH caught up with the one-time "Material
Girl" and her producer William Orbit , and
they gave us the scoop on the project. |
| 2-2-00 |
Madonna
On 'The Next Best Thing'
-LAUNCH
(2/2/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Madonna is preparing for
the release of her upcoming film with Rupert
Everett titled The Next Best Thing , which opens
nationwide on March 3. |
| 1-31-00 |
Madonna
Preparing More 'Rays Of Light'
-LAUNCH
(1/31/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Madonna will likely spend
much of the first half of 2000 working on the
follow-up to her Grammy-winning album Ray Of
Light , and early reports are that the results
will be an album that picks up where its
techno-fied, beat-happy predecessor left off.
|
| 1-12-00 |
Really
Randoms: Busta Rhymes, Roger Waters, Madonna -Rolling Stone
Add rappers Busta Rhymes, Rah Digga, Q-Tip and
Mobb Deep -- along with boy band 98 Degrees -- to
the long list of musical performers headed to
Atlanta for Super Bowl week. |
| 1-8-00 |
Stars
Gear Up for Super Bowl Music Spectaculars -Rolling Stone
The playoffs have yet to be determine which two
teams will travel to Atlanta to square off
against each other for Superbowl XXXIV, but the
musical entertainment lineup for the Jan. 30
showdown is just about set. |
| 1-6-00 |
Grammy
Is One Mysterious Lady
-Rolling Stone
What's Grammy to do when she wants to be hip and
respected, yet so many of 1999's hits were
cravenly commercial? Years back, the old
fashioned Grammy would've been happy to dole out
nominations to pop balladeers who posted
blockbuster numbers, saturated the airwaves and
offended exactly nobody the way the Backstreet
Boys, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin and others
did. |
| 12-22-99 |
Really
Randoms: Madonna, Britney Spears, Pet Shop Boys -Rolling Stone
Madonna is looking to add a second
best-original-song Golden Globe award to her
mantel (she won in 1991 for "Vogue").
"Beautiful Stranger," her randy little
collaboration with William Orbit for the movie
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , is her
latest Globe entree. |
