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“Seeing my name printed below Michael Jackson and Madonna and immediately above Whitney Houston was surreal,” she writes.

Madonna's Ray Of Light, written after the birth of her daughter Lourdes, eschewed her brash 1980s persona for a more spiritual, psychedelic sound.

I was reminded of a passage of a book I recently scored on eBay while consumed in my twice-yearly Madonna rabbit hole, “Madonna’s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to her Cultural Transformations.”

Madonna - who last month released her long-rumoured remix album Veronica Electronica - has made impassioned speeches on stage about Gaza since the war began.

More solo records followed and in 1985 he performed at the Live Aid famine relief concert at Wembley Stadium in London alongside Queen, David Bowie, Madonna and the Who.