Madonna (Madonna album)
Madonna (retitled Madonna: The First Album for the 1985 re-release) is the debut album by American singer Madonna, released on July 27, 1983 by Sire Records. After having established herself as a singer in downtown New York City, Madonna was signed by Sire president Seymour Stein, due to the success of her debut single, "Everybody" (1982). She became the sole writer for most of the album's tracks, and chose Reggie Lucas as its primary producer. Unhappy with Lucas's production outputs, she invited John "Jellybean" Benitez to complete the album, who remixed three tracks and produced "Holiday".
Madonna bibliography
Her first release as an author was the coffee table book "Sex" (1992), published under her company Maverick. It consisted of sexually provocative and explicit images, photographed by Steven Meisel. The book received negative reaction from the media and the general public, but sold 1.5 million copies at $50 each in a matter of days. Madonna continued releasing coffee table photography books, including those associated with her concert tours like "Madonna: The Girlie Show" (1995), "Madonna Confessions" (2006) and "Madonna: Sticky & Sweet" (2009). She also wrote forewords for a number of books, including Alan Parker's coffee table book about the making of the film "Evita" (1996) and wrote a chapter for "The Emperor's New Clothes: An All-Star Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale" (1998). Madonna has also written columns for publications like "Harper's Bazaar", the inaugural issue of "George" magazine and the Israeli newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth".