Madonna Time Tunnel: Deciding to go it alone

Time Tunnel: Deciding to go it alone

Meanwhile, back at her musical career, the formula still wasn't right. Madonna's managment, Gotham Managment, wanter her to play rock music, but she knew times were changing and that funky dance records were being played on the radio everywhere. She and Steve Bray began rehearsing and recording some songs in that style, but the rest of the band and Gotham Managment hated them.

In 1981, Madonna, once again, decided to go it alone and parted company with both band [apart from Steve Bray] and managment and began a systematic tour of all the night clubs and discos in New York City, looking for music business people who would help her to get a record deal and make her a star she desperately wanted to be.

She tried the Roxy and Danceteria among others and it was Danceteria where she met DJ Mark Kamins. He was ideal - he had an ear to the latest dancefloor sounds - as weel as being in contact with several record companies. Madonna slipped him a tape of four songs she and Steve Bray had written and recorded. One of them was Everybody.

Kamins played the song in the club and people danced away happily to Madonna's songs. The next inevitable step was for Kamins to get the word about his vibrant new talent to a record company. He got in touch with Seymour Stein, boss of Sire Records.

Stein was in hospital at the time, but he made an appointment for Madonna to come and see him. He was impressed, as he discribed later: When she walked into the room she filled it with her exuberance and determination. I could tell she had the drive to match her talent.

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