An icon turns 66 today! Born Madonna Louise Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna changed the pop culture landscape as soon as she came out with her eponymous debut album back in 1983. Since then, ...

Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

As the producer behind some of Madonna’s earliest hits (and her one-time boyfriend), John “Jellybean” Benitez was a key figure in creating the sound of the ’80s, and his work still sounds as fresh ...

Madonna was the epitome of confidence when responding to criticisms from Mick Jagger in the mid-1980s. Brb, taking notes.

Cyndi Lauper is reflecting on what could have been. The singer recalled being pitted against fellow pop icon Madonna by fans and the music industry while they were both up-and-coming stars in the ...

Over the years, [Madonna and I] sort of met each other, but there’s never been any kind of warmth necessarily on either side. But I am a fan. I’ve got a lot of her records. I always loved her records… ...

Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. It’s a decade of excess. It’s also a decade of INXS. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder ...

There's a lost piece of music history sitting in a vault somewhere, and '80s music fans are going to want to hear this. "It was written for Madonna and Was (Not Was), and it was when dad was poppin' ...

It was a more physical world, though we thought it quite advanced. There seemed nothing “terrestrial” about twisting a radio knob to some eccentric decimal point, dialling static into song. In the ...