The subtitle states “Music from and inspired by the film Dick Tracy”. Love blossomed on the Dick Tracy set between Madonna and Beatty, even though it did not last much longer after the release of the movie.Ī loved-up Madonna, however, thrilled by her role of Breathless Mahoney was inspired by the whole feel of the movie and wanted to do more to ensure the film’s success. Madonna’s marriage to Shanghai co-star Sean Penn had ended in divorce in 1989. This return for the 1930’s comic strip detective was masterminded by Warren Beatty, very much a power figure in Hollywood. Four years on “Dick Tracy” did a little to recover her tarnished movie reputation. She’d triumphed co-starring in the small 1985 movie “Desperately Seeking Susan” but when the budgets went up and she was expected to carry a whole production we got “Shanghai Surprise” one of the biggest disasters of all time. Hollywood era glamour was long gone by the time she came around but there was a belief that she could turn back time to become another Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe. It was well known how much Madonna yearned to be a huge movie star. The central point that pulled everything together here was the movie Dick Tracy. It was from this point onward that I really got on board. The albums to this point had all been worthy with some great tracks but lacked a certain cohesiveness which could push her, as far as I was concerned to another level. I’d owned a copy of her Nile Rodgers produced “Like A Virgin” where the great moments had been released as singles although the album sold in bucket-loads –some 25 million which puts it up there in the best selling albums of all time. There had been a great run of these but album wise I thought her output was a little patchy as if she had not really found that true direction. For me, however, she was still very much a singles artist. She was achieving a level of fame which had not been experienced by solo female singers before. In this time she had notched up 7 US and 6 UK number 1 singles and had recorded four studio albums the last three of which had topped both the UK and US album charts. By 1990 Madonna had been at the top of her game commercially for six years.
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