They never got round to reading the early screenplay, however, because they immediately headed for the Chateau D’Heuroville studio, in France, to mix a live album called Here at Last… Bee Gees… Live, which they’d recorded in Los Angeles just before Christmas. When Stigwood ran into problems using Wonder’s music, he rang the Bee Gees, then living on the Isle of Man for tax reasons, and asked them to come up with songs for the movie, sending them a rough film script. “I was dancing to Stevie Wonder in rehearsals.”
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“The Bee Gees weren’t even involved in the movie in the beginning,” said Travolta once. The band’s manager Robert Stigwood bought the film rights to a magazine article entitled “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” and hired John Travolta to star in a Hollywood adaptation. We hadn’t had a hit record in about three years.” “The Bee Gees’ sound was basically tired. “You’ve got to remember, we were fairly dead in the water at that point,” Barry Gibb, the eldest sibling, admitted in 2013. But does the record deserve a reevaluation two decades on? Twenty years after it first hit the shelves (April 21), here’s a ranking of its 11 tracks.Although the Bee Gees are now established as one of the most popular music acts ever, with estimated sales of more than 200 million records worldwide, their disco hits came at a time when the band was struggling. It remained Madonna’s lowest-selling album until 2012’s MDNA. Although it topped the Billboard 200 in its first week, it moved 241,000 copies in its first week, compared to Music’s first-week total of 420,000, according to Luminate. No longer was Madonna the Material Girl.Īudiences appeared to be confused by this combination of the familiar and the radical, however. Reacting to the September 11 attacks and the impending Iraq War, the star posed all kinds of questions about the state of America, most notably its obsession with fame and fortune.
While American Life’s sound failed to match its striking cover art – a graffiti portrait of Madonna cosplaying as Cuban rebel Che Guevara – its lyrics were a little more revolutionary.
This dream team was responsible for half of her hit 2000 album, including standouts “Don’t Tell Me,” “Impressive Instant” and “Paradise (Not for Me).” On this occasion, though, Madonna tasked Mirwais with co-producing the entire record. Three years earlier on Music, Madge further extended her Queen of Pop reign by aligning herself with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, then a relatively unknown Frenchman whose production style was built on swooping laser-like synths, finger-picked acoustic guitars and chopped-up rhythms that left you wondering whether your CD player had skipped. The biggest surprise about 2003’s American Life, then, was that there were few surprises. This is an artist who, in the space of six years, pivoted from sexually-charged pop ( Erotica) to seductive R&B ( Bedtime Stories) to Broadway showtunes ( Evita) to Earth Mother electronica ( Ray of Light). For the first couple decades of her career, Madonna took pride in never making the same album twice.
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