Madonna Time Tunnel: The Immaculate Collection

Time Tunnel: The Immaculate Collection

November 1990 saw the release of Madonna's first ever Greatest Hits compilation, called The Immaculate Collection. The album, which was dedicated to the pope, included also two new songs: Justify My Love and Rescue Me.

Right after the release of The Immaculate Collection, Madonna presented the video to the haunting first single release Justify My Love. Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and filmed at the Ritz in Paris.

The video is full of sexual fantasies, different people doing it together. What heated up the real controversy was Madonna kissing another woman. Due to the sexual / lesbian tension the video was banned from MTV and even European TV stations didn't show the video before midnight. Due to this, Madonna released the first ever video single - which still is the best selling video single of all time!

In March 1991, Madonna was accompanied by no one else than Michael Jackson to the Annual Academy Awards. Madonna's song Sooner Or Later, from the movie Dick Tracy, was nominated as Best Song From A Motion Picture - which she won!

Her performance of Sooner Or Later literally wrote TV-history when Madonna did a hilarious interpretation of a Marilyn Monroe-Like character - she blew everyone away!

Time was ready for the international release of Madonna's first concert / documentation movie: Truth Or Dare. This happend at the Movie Festival in Cannes, France. Madonna - of course - had again an idea how to caught people's attention for her movie:

While standing on top of the big staircase she accidetaly drops her jacket... which reveals only her underwear! Result: Top-coverage of this moment in all TV-shows around the world! Fans and critics loved Truth Or Dare, which not only showed Madonna on stage, it also took a close look at her personal life off-stage during her Blond Ambition-Tour.

I know I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best dancer, Madonna admits in Truth Or Dare, But that's not what I'm interested in - I want to push peoples's buttons.

Madonna used the rest of 1991 to work on a new film and a new album. She was signed to star opposite Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in a movie about the American Girl Baseball League called A League Of Their Own - which was directed by Penny Marshall. The film hit theaters in spring 1992.

Madonna also recorded a song for this movie called This Used To Be My Playground. Strangewise, the song didn't appear on the movie-soundtrack, but the single made it number one in the US charts and many other charts in the world.

Right before the release of Madonna's new album in October 1992, she made a surprise appearance at Jean-Paul Gaultier's couture show. Already then was clear that Madonna hasn't lost anything of her shocking and provoking presence...

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