Madonna Time Tunnel: Madonna's greatest dance hits

Time Tunnel: Madonna's greatest dance hits

In November 1987, Madonna releases her first compilation album called You Can Dance. It features Madonna's greatest dance hits sequenced into each other. The album also contains a new track called Spotlight - which was only released in Japan as a single.

The following year, 1988, saw no new releases as Madonna recharged her batteries, showing a little of the human face behind the seemingly inexhaustible performer. For the first time, Madonna did a one-run at Broadway in the role of a secretary in David Mammeth's play Speed The Plow - judging by the massive increase in attendance figures [rather than critics opinions] is was a great success.

Same year, Madonna began to work on her next studio album which was slated to be released in early 1989. The March-release of Like A Prayer in 1989 showed again a different Madonna: More strong, with a clear attitude and although a vulnerability she didn't show the years before. Now divorced from Sean, Madonna was back in full effect!

Back in the early 80's, Madonna's videos have already been considered as provoking and sometimes shocking. With the release of Madonna's title-track video for Like A Prayer [which was directed by Mary Lambert], the reactions from both audience and fans was shocked.

Church called the video blasphemous and a sacrileg, and Pepsi, sponsor of Madonna's upcoming tour, withdraw the current TV-commercial and dropped Madonna from her contract. Madonna was still the winner - she kept the millions from her Pepsi-Deal and watched how Like A Prayer rose in the charts!

The next shock was to come in June 1989: Express Yourself, the second single from Like A Prayer, was released. The video was directed by David Fincher [who later directed several other Madonna-videos] and showed Madonna in a reincarnation of a Fritz Lang movie [Metropolis]. Sweaty workers and Madonna who's in charge of them - and her own sexuality! Further to this, Madonna introduced her famous crotch-grab... inspired by Michael Jackson.

Madonna released several singles during 1989, including Cherish and Oh Father. Still on top with Like A Prayer, Madonna was signed to play a role opposite Warren Beatty in his new movie, a movie-adaption of the famous comic-hero Dick Tracy.

Madonna was set to play Breathless Mahoney, a raunchy night-club singer. Shooting for the movie began in summer and soon there were rumours floating around of Madonna having a love-affair with Warren Beatty - soon, the rumours turned out to be true!

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