When Betty Boo met Madonna
The phone rang in my suite at The Royalton Hotel in New York: Hi, this is Madonna, the voice said. I thought it was one of my Boo-ettes playing a prank. But it wasn’t. Madonna herself had heard I was in town and asked if I would like to go out to dinner.
Our connection was Seymour Stein. He had famously discovered Madonna and signed her to his Sire Label. Later, he signed me and, though she had said she was a huge fan of mine, I always took this with a pinch of salt. After all, I was just a girl from Shepherds Bush who made records in her bedroom!
I took a taxi to her apartment and she answered the door. I couldnt believe it - Madonna answering her own door? Even the Queen doesnt do that at Buckingham Palace.Madonna and I had a drink in her amazing apartment and then we jumped in her limo to her favourite eatery. It was packed full of Hip Hop and R n B luminaries this photo was actually taken by the late, great Tupac Shakur.
Madonna talked endlessly about music; she said she wanted to sign me to her new Maverick label. This was so exciting and the idea of the two of us working together was a dream come true.
At the end of the evening she dropped me back off at my hotel and I gave her my leopard print jacket (the one I am wearing in the picture). I was thrilled to see her wearing it a week later on MTV when she was promoting her Bedtime Stories album.
Shortly after this, sadly, my mum became very ill and I stopped recording to look after her. When she died, I withdrew from the music industry for many years. Madonna knew what it was like to lose a mother and was very kind to me.
Ever since, theres only been one Queen of Pop for me - Madonna will always be the best female artist of all time and I hope she never stops rocking.
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“Life is a paradox. If you want to be saved, you got to go to hell first. If you want to affect change in the world or cause a revolution in any area of life, you’re going to upset people. So some people will view what you’re doing as honorable, something to be admired or something good. And other people will look at what you’re doing as negative, bad or something that needs to be punished. And that’s the beauty of life - everybody sees things differently - but if you want to be a revolutionary you have to be prepared to make enemies.”
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I don’t know what happened, but the scenario that when on in my head was so funny that I started laughing hysterically for ten minutes and then started to cry because I couldn’t breathe
were they fucking and then like the dude’s arch nemesis showed up?
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