Vintage Memorabilia
Mixed Rare Memorabilia
THE SIGMA LABEL TAPES
As we know all kind of Madonna related memorabilia come up for sale on Ebay, and every now and then some of the stuff is quite interesting.
An example is this set of eight reels of tape, mixed directly from the 24-track masters to chart the progress of the making of Madonna’s first album much in the same way film rushes are made of the day’s work.
These tapes come from “Doc” Dougherty, one of the engineers on Madonna’s first album late in 1983. All are 15ips, 1/2 track stereo with no noise reduction. They date between 11-17-82 and 2-24-83. Some of the takes here have rough vocal tracks and not all the instrumentation.
Most of the tapes have slates and/or countoffs at the beginning of the songs. Two of them are Doc’s voice at the head. There are three takes of “Physical Attraction“, three takes of “I’m Burning Up” and one take each of “Borderline” “Lucky Star” “Aint No Big Deal” and “I Know It.”
Some of the tapes have the Sigma label on them and others do not. One of the tapes contains hand-written lyrics to “Physical Attraction” but it’s not known who’s handwriting it is.
THE VIRGIN TOUR LIVE
Here’s a rare flyer from 1985 promoting the Virgin Tour concert at SF Civic Auditorium on April 23, 1985.
FAMILY PORTRAIT
And here’s a rare picture of Madonna and Sean Penn at their 1985 wedding. The Ciccone/Penn family portrait is signed by both Madonna and Sean
RARE PORTRAIT
A rare picture by photographer Wolfgang Wesener from 1988 shown during the “NEW YORK, THE GOLDEN YEARS” exhibit in Rome in 2003.
NIKKI FINN
What follows is a bar ticket for a drink from the Who’s that girl World Tour era. The Nikki Finn cartoon character from the film Who’s that girl movie was used on on some of that tour’s promo stuff.
Here’s some memorabilia from the Blond Ambition Tour. It’s Madonna‘s Derby hat used on stage during the last number of the show, Keep it together. The Derby Design hat is made by Dunn & Co. from Oxford Street in London. This particular hat has been on aucton on Ebay for $500 and is signed in gold by Madonna herself. It still has paper towel inside placed there to absorbe Madonna’s sweat, and it also has make-up stain on inside from Madonna. A similar hat is also used in the Herb Ritts pictures used for the Immaculate collection Video/Dvd cover.
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More M-morabilia from world Tours. Here’s a pair of Dolce & Gabbana shoes, Madonna wore in the famous 1993 Herb Ritts portfolio, used a lot during the “Girlie Show Era”.
As you can see from the pictures, kindly provided by our reader Coccolo72, on the shoes’ label there’s the hand written word “MO“, which is put on every Dolce & Gabbana item made for Madonna.
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