Martin Burgoyne, Jean Michel Basquiat & Madonna

Martin Burgoyne, Jean Michel Basquiat & Madonna. Real Artists when the Lower East Side was really the Lower East Side with junk hole drug addicts, whores, filth and Puerto Rican Cheese Dong and you could have your throat slashed at any moment. EAT IT!!!

Here, Have a Hat

Madonna's fedora hat is also up for auction. Here's the description from Julien's Live Auction:

A grey felt fedora with black ribbon covered in inscriptions from Madonna's friends and paint splashes. Many inscriptions are written graffiti-style by Martin Burgoyne, Dondi, Fab 5 Freddie, Ronnie Cutrone, Daze, RP3 and Zephyr, among others. The paint is believed to be from Burgoyne, an artist who was roommates with Madonna during her early days in New York. The hat was given to a childhood friend of Madonna's, who lived next to her in a New York City loft in Soho in the 1980s.

Julien's Live Auctions Madonna Photos

Edo Bertoglio's contact sheet with her and Martin Burgoyne.

Julien's Live Auction is offering up some Madonna photos. The last one here they say is her in a bathing suit! Check it out HERE.

Andy Warhol - "It was just the Most Exciting Weekend of My Life" - August 16th 1985 - Madonna & Sean Penn Wed

Andy Warhol Diary Entry.

From People Magazine - Madonna was pissed off that Keith and Andy allowed People to photograph the art they collaborated on together. Ha! So great.

Find Warhol. xo

Out Magazine

Corman says:

"She was like the Pied Piper of the neighborhood - [the kids] loved her. They followed her, they danced with her, they sang with her. It was something they did on a daily basis, and it was remarkable. We just walked up and they gathered around. She put the boom box on -- it was her music, though I don’t remember which song - and they just started dancing and singing. She was so alive and unpretentious. She was fierce, determined. Nothing was going to stop her."

Madonna and Martin Burgoyne on the Vogue Desperately Seeking Susan shoot, which she asked Richard Corman for a print.

Well, Out Magazine finally got it right because whatever they were thinking in 2006 is beyond me when dealing with The Greatest Star That Has Ever Lived for her first ever Out Magazine cover.

visit Out.com to see the rest of the portfolio.

Madonna-related clips from Jean-Michel Baquiat: The Radiant Child

Madonna related clips from The Radiant Child.

Madonna at Buffalo Gals Party

The King and Queen

Mr. Marilyn & Ms. Madonna.

The Greatest Live Version of "Into the Groove" of All Time

Bust out that tambourine and get Into the Groove. This is the exact moment when the disco pop tart turned stadium rock star. She rock'd this shyt out. Just got off the Virgin Tour, engaged to Sean Penn, the nudes were about to hit the newsstands...it was just too much, Harold.

Look for fiance Sean Penn and best buddy Martin Burgoyne checking Madonna out from the side lines.

Hard to understand now but in 1985 dance music was not considered a respected form of music. Long before dance acts were being taken seriously, Dick Clark lobbied hard to get Madonna on the show, as seen in the clip below. This was also the moment she left all her contemporaries in the dust.

The First Album: Madonna - Lucky Star.

As most of you know, Madonna's first album was originally set to be called Lucky Star. Photographed by Maripol's boyfriend, Edo Bertoglio and designed by Martin Burgoyne. Wheels were in motion, copies were pressed but then Madonna sat with Gary Heery and everything was changed. Thank God. And that's exactly what I told some dude peddling it at the Madonna convention in 2000 chasing me down trying to get me to buy it. I mean, as great as it is, it looks more like a Cherelle album than Madonna. All colorized/tinted and shyt.


Fans first saw the Edo Bertoglio photographs in Madonna's first biography, the Martin Burgoyne designed book of the same name, Lucky Star. They're fabulous, sexy, with a splash of old Hollywood and wonderful but I'm sure we are all in agreement that the final product was, in fact, the best choice. If not one of the greatest records covers of all time. Certainly, it is for me.

Edo Bertoglio photograph of an early Madonna. Gorgeous.

The back side of the Burning Up single when the album was still called Lucky Star.

The Real Deal. The way it was supposed to be. There could have been no other.

The Queen of Life and Fags has Spoken: Madonna on Malawi Homos Sentenced to 14 years in Prison with Hard Labor

Street Fags: Martin Burgoyne and Madonna

"I am shocked and saddened by the decision made today by the Malawian court, which sentenced two innocent men to prison.

"As a matter of principle, I believe in equal rights for all people, no matter what their gender, race, color, religion, or sexual orientation.

"Today, Malawi took a giant step backward. The world is filled with pain and suffering; therefore, we must support our basic human right to love and be loved.

"I call upon the progressive men and women of Malawi—and around the world—to challenge this decision in the name of human dignity and equal rights for all."

quote from Boy Culture

Madonna, Martin Burgoyne, Erica Bell and Bags at Haoui Montaug's No Entiendes Cabaret Performing 'Everybody' for the very first time - 1982.

In early 1985, fans got their first proper Madonna Book - like Culture Club's When Cameras Go Crazy only better because it was Madonna, Lucky Star.

The Lucky Star Book, as my friends and I referred to it, was written by Michael Mckenzie and designed by Martin Burgoyne - it was our Bible. It was the first time we saw Island Magazine!

Full of never before seen pictures taken not only by the books author but Laura Levine, Beth Baptiste, Dan Gilroy, Stephen Jon Lewicki (Bruna!), Marcus Leatherdale, Patrick McMullan, Debroah Feingold, Edo Bertoglio (Maripol's boyfriend) and heaps others. It was the first time fans had read about about Madonna's debut performance of Everybody in detail. It had taken place at the Danceteria at Haoui Montaug's Caberet Show, No Entiendes.

Like reading about the 4 track demo that got her signed to Sire Records, I thought it would never see the light of day. However, a few years ago, Everybody hit the internet.

To make a long story longer, I remember the day I bought my first computer. I got it at Best Buy and it was that very day at that very store that I saw Stephen Bray's Pre-Madonna, the cd that not only had the songs from the 4 track demo but some new ones that I had only read about in Entertainment Weekly. I was more excited about the cd than my computer.

Anyway, here it is. Madonna's very first performance of Everybody at the Danceteria plus scans of details from The Lucky Star Book.

 

Best Buddy Martin Burgoyne Watches as Madonna Performs Into The Groove at Live Aid, July 13, 1985

lower left hand corner:

Jellybean - Wotupski Record - 1984! This is the Real Deal for the Real Fans, not this new breed of nit-pick'n fuck twats.

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Fantastique on every level. I've had this album since the day it was released in 1984. SIDEWALK TALK BABY!!!

On the inner sleeve of The Record, I've highlighted all the people that worked with Madonna and was in her circle back then. Nile Rodgers playing guitar here on "Was Dog a Doughnut" - he and Madonna were still working on Virgin at the time, Shep Pettibone is thanked as is Paul Oakenfold. Fred Zarr and Michael Hutchinson are from the first album.

Martin Burgoyne designed this record art. Stephen Bray is all up and through - and for those of you FREAK'N out over the liner notes being fuck'd up on Celebration - his name is misspelled on the same page! To this new breed of chronic complainers - get a fuck'n grip - you were poop'n in your diapers - when THE REAL DEAL was happening. If you can't take it then or now, go to your P. Abdul as you did then or to your Joanne today. But not here dear, is that clear dear?

Ok, back to the REAL DEAL. Danceteria, Mark Kamins, Erica Bell, Bags, Seymour Stein, Mark Bego (Madonna Bio) - everyone from the early days is here.

Madonna signed her Virgin album to Jellybean with Goo Goo Ga Ga and Jellybean did it here with Goo Goo Gaa Gaa to her.

IT'S A CELEBRATION!!! always. Enjoy. xo

Leatherdale

martin burgoyne's madonna

Penthouse - September 1987 - Special Anniversary Issue