Best Interview With Madonna Ever - With Howard Stern?

Photo by Kevin Mazur

It's not like I'm obsessed with Madonna. I just happened to be a radio disc jockey in the '80s when her first record came out. Then I went to a couple of her shows over the years. Shook when I met her. Always loved her. Watched her lucky star rise beyond what any of us could ever have imagined.

Maybe I am obsessed with her.

One thing I have done over the years is read, watch and listen to interviews with Madonna. She doesn't do a lot of them. I thought I knew all there was to know about Madonna, but then came this astonishing interview. And I have to say the best interview I have ever heard with the self-proclaimed non-material girl, which was just this week, AND with Howard Stern. What began as a laid-back, chill interview turned into 10 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MADONNA. Like the fact that she was trying to say she is NOT materialistic in the song Material Girl and how no one got that. But one of the biggest bombshells was that she dated Tupac Shakur.

Take a listen to the interview, thirty years in the making according to Howard Stern. It's awsome:

HOWARD STERN MADONNA INTERVIEW

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