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"Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Madonna recorded before becoming one of the world's biggest pop superstars
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Upon arriving at the city's airports in the summer of 1975, visitors were presented with a pamphlet subtitled A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York, featuring a hooded skull, and the words Welcome To Fear City.
Back then, Madonna was studying to be a dancer, and dating New York singer/songwriter Dan Gilroy, who’d formed The Breakfast Club with his guitarist brother Ed.
“Aside from if you have a sexual one or a living situation, just being in a band with someone is very intimate," he recalled.
You have arguments about the material and then you get together and perform it and get a good reaction maybe, hopefully.
Chances are you might be a little more familiar with these songs than with Shit On The Ground.