Planet Vinyl welcomes and loves the obscure, the forgotten, the eccentric and the strange. But we do not discriminate. The best-selling female recording artist of all time? She too is welcome here. I speak of Madonna Louise Ciccone, born in the United States in 1958. By the time I was a teenager in the 1980s […]
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Sting’s real name is Gordon Sumner. Bono’s real name is Paul Hewson. Madonna’s real name is actually Madonna, but you see where I am going. Many is the artist who has adopted a stage name for a bit of mystique. A little while ago, I discovered the faux (but enjoyable) Latin jazz of Chaquito, whose […]
Ah, the Eighties. The decade when marketing and pop music really hopped into bed, good and proper. “We are living in a material world,” declaimed Madonna. “Greed is good”, said Gordon Gecko, who didn’t actually exist though there were many like him. Margaret Thatcher did exist, and ran a country, and she said “There is […]
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