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Topic Started: Oct 26 2005, 06:24 PM (1,417 Views)
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Oct 26 2005, 06:24 PM
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Madonna Myth 1: She’s a religious nutter! 'That’s absolutely false. I’d just describe her as an extreme intellectual. The girl has got far too much going on in her head to be passive to religion and spirituality. She’s always looking for answers, she’s a big questioner of life. I’m not surprised people call her a religious nut, but actually she’d be the first to say that her Kabbalah is not a religion, it’s a study. I’d quash all that religious bollocks in a second 'cause I’ve never got that from her. She’s quite pushy, she’ll say: 'I think you should read about this because I think it’s good for you.' But on a personal level that’s her being a friend rather than being a saleswoman.' Madonna Myth 2: She’s past her sell-by date! 'Bollocks! Whatever her age, it’s immaterial. When you sit in a room with her working on stuff, she could just be some 18 year old singer. Albeit an 18 year old with a lot of experience! She’s got this inherent understanding of dance music and pop music and she more than belies her age.' Madonna Myth 3: She can’t actually sing! 'Also bollocks. The first thing that impressed me about her, when we were in the rehearsal studio before the tour, was how well she could sing. We were doing that song from 'Ray of Light', 'Substitute For Love', and there’s no studio trickery. I just thought: 'Bloody hell, she’s brilliant.' Madonna Myth 4: She doesn’t really produce her own records! 'All my answers are 'bollocks!' I was hoping there was something I could agree with! She’s more like the old school producer. With modern producers, you expect to see them behind computers and keyboards, but the best thing about the way she produces is she never touches anything. She sits there on the couch at the back, pores over everything and tells you where it’s going wrong. I can stay up till three or four in the morning working on a song, thinking that I’m re-inventing the wheel. By 11am I realise it’s the biggest pile of bollocks I’ve ever made, but she can come in and tell you what the good bit is. I think that makes a good producer.' Madonna Myth 5: She smells of horses! 'I don’t think I’ve ever detected the odour of a horse on her. And it’s quite a distinctive smell isn’t it? Not that I’ve hung around that many stables or anything. I’ve never detected that kind of musky odour on her. I’m sure I found a long horsehair in her jacket once, though.'
The last "myth" is pretty funny. I wonder if it's a subtle way for her to claim she does not pleasure horses?
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Oct 26 2005, 08:06 PM
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I’d just describe her as an extreme intellectual.
Oh, he needs to just stop.
This dude is a douchebag. LOL!
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Oct 26 2005, 08:09 PM
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I know! Could he be any more of a pathetic a**-kisser?
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Oct 26 2005, 08:11 PM
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LOL! Just a little more.
He is just silly Queen.
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"She's more of a 'padder'..."
Stuart Price has always been brilliant.
He was brilliant as Les Rythmes Digitales and as him out of Zoot Woman and as Thin White Duke and as Pour Homme and as Paper Faces and as Man With Guitar and as (that's enough of that - Pseudonyms Ed.)
Anyway, now he is brilliant as the producer on Madonna's best ever dance album, which also happens to be her best pop album since the 1980s.
She did it round his house, you know...
Stuart, to get to the bottom of the creative process that brought 'Confessions On A Dancefloor' to life, we need to know one thing: does Madge wash up after herself when she's made a cup of tea? She's the perfect guest - but she did spill coffee on my white carpet by knocking a mug off a keyboard. I was amazed at just how well, using only a kitchen towel, she could draw the coffee out of the white carpet. The technique she had was to never rub, just to gently pad the carpet with the kitchen towel.
Madge: not a scrubber. No, she's more of a 'padder.'
Now, we know how it is when you're working late. Did Madonna ever stay the night at your flat? There's no room! My flat basically consists of a couch, a mixing desk, an Apple computer, as many vintage keyboards I could fit into one room, and a kettle. And a toothbrush.
It's not the same flat we came round to four years ago, is it? It is! It's the same flat.
For the last four years we've been plagued by the guilt of leaning back a little too far in one of your 'cool' retro chairs and breaking the back. At the time, you were very polite about it. Were you secretly furious? Well, here's some honesty for you - it was kind of broken already, and had been ineptly repaired. So it wasn't so much that you broke the chair, just that you blundered the repair job slightly. You can buy me another one if you like.
At this stage in our respective careers it rather seems the case that you can afford 'cool' retro chairs more than we can, Stuart. HA! Yeah!
Do you still have the chair? In fact, Madonna recorded her vocals sitting in the chair that you broke! But the chair that you broke has now had that plastic bit removed from it and is now just a stool. So I suppose in breaking that chair you indirectly influenced the vocal sound of the album.
Let's talk 'music'! The two Pet Shop Boys references on the album are amazing. Do you hold your hands up to loving the Boys? I do, yes. I mean, who can not love the Pet Shop Boys? That's the thing. They were the first ever pop act I ever listened to. All of Chris Lowe's parts… When I very first sat there with 'My First Keyboard' I was trying to work out how they did it, how they made those rhythms, how they got those sounds. I love the 'Disco' album with all the 12" mixes and I suppose it's not surprising fifteen years later that when it all pops up on the record I think 'oh, this sounds like the Pet Shop Boys.' I'm not going to try and disguise that, they're a big influence.
So it's fair to say that Madonna wouldn't be where she is today without the Pet Shop Boys? She really loves them as well. Because they worked with Bobby Orlando in New York really early on, and I'm guessing she would've been around there at that same period. So I think there's a huge kind of cross-over there. It's funny because when we were doing 'Jump' I didn't think she'd know who the Pet Shop Boys were but she was the one who was screaming 'Pet Shop Boys! I f***ing love them!'
Is there anything you could have done to 'Hung Up' to make it sound any more gay? A lot of people are saying this. I don't know, it doesn't strike me as being that gay. Is it the Abba sample that makes it like that? It's got a bit of a strut hasn't it? When you put that record on your hips just start doing... Well, I I was going to say unnatural movements, but unfortunately they're very natural movements, aren't they? I'm not sure how we could have sprinkled any more glitter on that track, though.
Could you do a Stuart Price Christmas album in a sort of Phil Spector fashion and get lots of people to sing on it, please? Would you like that? Ooh, shall we pencil that in for... What - Christmas 2009?
Oh, come on, you could bang one out for next Christmas. That's the problem with bloody popstars, by the time you get round to doing anything it's way after the event, anyway.
But the event of Christmas comes once a year - that's the beauty of it all. I've always wanted to make the ultimate Christmas record and actually I recently bought the perfect Christmas instrument at an auction. Do you know Lots Road in Chelsea?
THAT'S WHERE POPJUSTICE HQ IS!!! You're kidding! (We're deadly serious - Ed) Well, you know very well what I'm talking about then. I went to an auction down there, looking for a chair actually but don't feel guilty, and then I saw this harpsichord and picked it up for £400. I took it home, started playing it and realised that a harpsichord is basically an instant Phil Spector Christmas hit. And I've had this song sitting here, which is the perfect Christmas song... So watch this space.
(Ludicrous section follows in which we end up agreeing to 'sort out' the greatest collaboration of the century.)
Now to the important stuff. What do you think of Girl Aloud? I think Girls Aloud are the right side of the line. I think a bit like the Sugababes, they seem to pick great writers. One of my biggest gripes with modern pop music is that I think a lot of albums sound like compilation records - when you have multiple producers there's no continuity. With the Madonna record she did work with other people - Mirwais and Bloodshy and Avant - but still, ultimately most of those tracks all ended up at my house. At some point you sort of stand back and look at the record as a whole instead of looking it as twelve songs. And that's what gives credit to people like Girls Aloud in that they're quite focused in what they do. The only thing with Girls Aloud, though, is that I can never remember who's who. They should be called Girls Sort-Of Aloud, or Girls Permitted But Not Really Encouraged.
If you'd been approached to work on a new Dannii Minogue album, how different would it have ended up sounding to 'Confessions'? Well, it's hard to say without knowing how Dannii works, but the thing is is that you don't produce Madonna, you collaborate with her. She's a really good producer herself and obviously a great writer too. I don't want to belittle Dannii or say that she couldn't hope to be as creative as Madonna because, well, maybe she is. But on a more general note, I've never worked with anyone before who is as genuine and as hands on as an artist as Madonna is. She's has her vision and knows how to get it but at the same time will be the first person to say 'I can't make records without my collaborators.' And what's interesting with this one is that she's picked a DJ to make dance tunes for her to make songs, which is exactly what she's been doing since 1983 - hanging out with DJ's and making records.
Can you make a cutting edge dance album if you don't go out all the time and get off your box everynight? Well, when I was aged 19 or 20, I'd get so off my box then. I think I did so much ecstasy in that period that I'll always be able to work out how to get back there, even today. The problem with, as you put it, getting off your box every night, is that you can be standing in a nightclub feeling super-inspired and thinking 'I know exactly what I want to do when I get into the studio tomorrow', and then by 8am the following day you're coming down hard, your inspiration has gone and you've forgotten the bloody ideas you had anyway.
Disaster! I've got to be honest, I haven't done drugs in the last five years or so because... Well, I was going to say I haven't had the time, but that's obviously not true. I just find I can get into the zone without them. A lot of this record was done because I wanted to make a record which I could put in my record box and play at the weekend. Also, with this record it's very poppy too. Although I suppose with someone like Madonna you can't not make that kind of record!
Having said that, the last Madge album was a bit of a dancefloor clearer, in spite of being officially the best Madonna album of all time. I couldn't agree more and I think if it had been done by an artist other than Madonna it would have been a lot more of a revered record because the song writing is so great and it's such a defiant record. The thing with Madonna is that when people think of her they think of the records she used to do - they have a certain voice in their head and they kind of want that from her. Everyone wants Madonna to be the ultimate, cool, strong, fun girl. That's what they want her to do and that's why they embrace her so much when she does do it. The problem is that she's just way too enthusiastic and intellectual to stay doing 'one type of music throughout the whole of her career. With 'American Life', she kind of said how it was at the time - and with this record I think she was more, 'f**k it, let's make a record and have a good time.' She always tells it like it is.
Amazing. Now let's talk about Juliet, because you did her album and it was amazing and, frustratingly, literally nobody was interested. What went wrong? It is frustrating and unfortunately - and it's the bit of it you never get to see - a complete staff change at Virgin with whole teams getting fired means that artists just seem to evaporate. Jules is a bonafide star and she's so real. She has all the traits of someone who deserves to be very successful because she's totally eccentric and left of centre yet has a big heart, is an amazing performer…She has all those things. I think what she wants to do is to make another record. She should do it again. I'd work with her again if she wanted because I completely believe in her.
And 'where next' for Stuart Price, ie you? I don't know! I don't want to get on that gravy train of producing songs for everybody else, I want to make my own record, I want to do another Les Rythmes Digitales album...
Hoorah! Yes! I've gone along a big path of doing Les Rythmes Digitales and doing Zoot Woman and I kind of had a situation with Wall Of Sound... It was basically a broken relationship with a record company, which meant that I immersed myself in remixing and DJing which then led on to working with Madonna. That was all because I had a dysfunctional record deal. Having a record deal which was broken was the best thing that happened to me because it made have to go out and explore things. I'm happy to say that it's all been resolved now so I want to do a new Les Rhythmes Digitales record, which is what I'll start doing over Christmas.
Excellent. Well, we were meant to have fifteen minutes and we've been chummering away for half an hour, so perhaps it is time to go. Perhaps, but you know what? When you're having fun, f**k it!
Well quite. Thank you Stuart Price for being an amazing pop ambassador. Hey - I like that! Pop ambassador! I completely am a pop head, you know - it's just that I've found that it's only with dance music that I can do what I want to do.
Do you get it in the back door? Yeah! PopJustice
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Mandonna Blind Item from Popbitch!
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Which Basingstoke synth geek is rumoured to be Jacqueing his Body with Madonna?
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Feb 3 2006, 04:58 PM
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Who? I'm afraid the lingo is lost on me...
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Feb 3 2006, 07:36 PM
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Wow! The Mirror is quick!
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MADONNA EXCLUSIVE: IT'S A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP PALS TELL OF MADGE'S BOND WITH PRODUCER By Graham Brough And Fiona Cummins, Showbiz Reporter
MADONNA'S friends last night told of her "special working relationship" with her producer Stuart Price that has sparked fresh fears over her marriage.
The star, 47 - pictured leaving his flat after nearly three hours there behind closed blinds - is said to chat to him on the phone several times daily, often for long periods.
Stuart, 28, masterminded her Confessions On A Dancefloor album. She has likened working with him to chosing a new boyfriend and is now a regular visitor to his home.
And as speculation mounts in music circles that she and husband Guy Ritchie, 37, are drifting apart, her pals call the young studio expert her "Rock".
One said: "It's no secret that Madonna and Stuart have developed a special working relationship. After all, they worked together very closely on her album. They enjoy each other's company and respect each other.
"Madonna's always asking Stuart's advice and opinions on things and obviously trusts him without question.
"She confides in him and regards him as one of the most important people in her life."
Sightings of mum-of-two Madonna and movie director Guy in public together have become increasingly rare. Although her career remains strong, his has nosedived. Guy's friends say that with his wife determined on even more success, the increasing time she spends with Stuart is pushing the married couple further apart.
One said: "He feels totally hemmed in by her career at the moment. It's as if work is the only thing that interests her.
"He's spending a lot of time at home alone, except when the children are around."
Last month her publicist took the unusual step of denying the marriage was in trouble.
Madonna frequently calls at Stuart's one-bedroom flat in Maida Vale, North West London, often in her chauffeur-driven Audi.
Shortly after she was seen arriving earlier this week, her chauffeur brought them two coffees before driving off, leaving them alone.
She and Stuart spent two-and-a-half hours in the flat with the blinds pulled down.
When she was ready to leave, he poked his head out of the door to look out.
As she finally emerged to walk down the steps to her waiting car, he stood at the door and waved goodbye.
Stuart returned inside the property, which doubles as his studio, to pull up the blinds.
Evidence of their close bond was clear last October, when she partied and looked totally carefree while helping him DJ at a New York club. In contrast, she and Guy appeared solemn when they were pictured on a rare night out in London last week.
The superstar ditched previous producer Mirwais Ahamdzai to work with Stuart - and compared it to landing a new boyfriend.
She explained: "You meet somebody and you are already going out with somebody else, so you say, 'Hi' and you have this fantastic date.
AND when you are back with this other person you are with, all you can do is think about this that other new person. I couldn't stop thinking about what fun it was to work with Stuart. It took me a minute to decide which boyfriend I wanted to have."
Madge also has previously described Stuart's home as "a magical place". She added: "I've told him he has to keep this place because so many great things have happened here. It feels historical to me."
Madonna and Guy had a fairytale wedding at Scotland's Skibo Castle in December 2000 shortly after the birth of son, Rocco. But she lifted the lid on her marriage in last year's Channel 4 documentary, I'm Going To Tell You A Secret.
The chart-topper confessed: "I got married for all the wrong reasons. My husband did not turn out to be everything I'd imagined him to be. I just wanted to end everything."
And Madonna, previously married to Hollywood star Sean Penn, added there was no such thing as the "perfect soulmate".
In the documentary, Stuart made clear his affection for her.
He said: "Hopefully people will realise Madonna is one of the kindest and most reasonable people you could hope to meet."
Last October Guy hinted at tensions at home. He said: "Do I listen to the wife's music? Do I have a choice?
"I like to think she values my opinion - although I'm not sure she does."
Last night Guy's dad John said the marriage had its problems but remained strong.
The retired adman, of Chelsea, West London, said: "My wife Shireen and I had supper with them a fortnight ago and it all seems to be very amiable.
"But they both work very hard, so they are both separate quite a lot of the time."
Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg insisted: "There's no strain in Madonna's marriage. Her relationship with Guy is quite good. They're quite happy."
She said the star and Stuart were just friends and added: "She treats him like a little brother. They have fun and talk a lot."
Stuart's dad David said: "I'm aware he worked with Madonna on her last album but anything else is nothing to do with me."
g.brough@mirror.co.uk
HER LIFE & LOVES
1983: Dated music producer Jellybean Benitez, who wrote breakthrough chart hit Holiday in 1983.
1985: Met actor Sean Penn, who she described as "the coolest guy in the universe". They married on her 27th birthday in August in Malibu, California, in a very public wedding with press helicopters drowning out their vows.
1988: Filed assault charges against Penn and officially separated the following year.
1990: Briefly dated actor Warren Beatty after starring as Breathless Mahoney alongside him in the movie Dick Tracy.
1991: Had an affair with John F Kennedy Jr, much to the disgust of his mum Jackie Onassis. Also dated singer Vanilla Ice, who she later pictured in her controversial photobook Sex.
1994: Had a short relationship with basketball player Dennis Rodman, who claims she ordered him to fly from Las Vegas to New York saying: "I'm ovulating, I'm ovulating. Get your ass up here." He said: "So I left my chips on the table, flew five hours to New York and did my thing. Then I flew back to Las Vegas and picked up my game where I left off."
1996: Became pregnant by lover and personal trainer Carlos Leon and gave birth to their daughter Lourdes.
1997/98: Had a year-long on-off affair with British writer Andy Bird.
1998: Met Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie through Sting's wife Trudie Styler.
2000: The couple's first child Rocco is born in August and they marry at Skibo Castle in December. Mirror
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Feb 3 2006, 10:50 PM
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Who? I'm afraid the lingo is lost on me...
It's Jacques Lu Cont of Les Rythmes Digitales, aka Stuart Price.
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With a jacked up relationship history as hers, is it any wonder that Madonna has marriage problems?
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Special Friendship = F**k Buddy
Manny is so full of crap. She only uses people for her advantage.
I predict a messy end for Manny and Guy. Can't wait!!!
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Feb 3 2006, 11:30 PM
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Madge claims 'so not true' MADONNA and hubby GUY RITCHIE have put on a show of togetherness and stepped out in public – to prove their marriage isn’t falling apart.
The Queen Of Pop booked a table at a posh Mayfair restaurant on Thursday amid claims their relationship has reached breaking point.
Madge, wrapped in a warm tweed coat, smiled as she and the Lock Stock director turned up at pal Marco Pierre White’s eaterie Luciano for a slap-up meal.
The singer had been left fuming after it was claimed she was enjoying a “special working relationship” with her musical collaborator STUART PRICE.
Stuart, musical director on her Re-Invention tour, co-wrote much of her current album, Confessions On A Dancefloor.
Reports suggested his friendship with Madonna was driving her and Brit flick filmmaker Guy apart.
But last night a spokesman for the Hung Up star insisted “She and Guy had a big laugh over the recent reporting of the special friendship with her songwriting/producing partner, dance music genius Stuart Price.”
And she added the persistent rumours of trouble in the Ritchie marriage are “so not true.”
There’s no doubt that Madonna is working overtime in the run-up to her world tour — which will kick off in the US in early summer.
She has also been spending up to 15 hours a day rehearsing for her duet with the GORILLAZ at next week’s Grammys.
So while Guy has been kicking around the house being bored, Mrs Ritchie has been prancing about in her pink leotards rehearsing dance moves.
A source told me: “Madonna and Guy’s marriage has always been extremely fiery — but they make no secret of that. She was attracted to Guy because he is his own man and he stands up to her.
“She is a strong, bossy person, too, and she likes to have things her own way. Often it’s fireworks between them.
“It is fair to say their relationship has been under huge strain because of Madonna’s excessive workload recently.
“She has thrown herself 100 per cent into promoting her album and has little time left to spend with Guy.
“But he’ll get over it. He is going to the Grammys with her next week and he will be at her side at the Brit Awards the following week.”
Perhaps it might be a good idea to say “Sorry” to Guy now, Madge — even if you don’t mean it! The Sun/Scum
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I betcha he turns off the lights.
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LOL!
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The superstar ditched previous producer Mirwais Ahamdzai to work with Stuart - and compared it to landing a new boyfriend.
She explained: "You meet somebody and you are already going out with somebody else, so you say, 'Hi' and you have this fantastic date.
AND when you are back with this other person you are with, all you can do is think about this that other new person. I couldn't stop thinking about what fun it was to work with Stuart. It took me a minute to decide which boyfriend I wanted to have."
Certainly sounds like her view of fidelity - she never did abandon the whole "What's In It For Me?" mentality...
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It also looks like she's trying to rub it in Guy's face; she sure didn't make any attempt to disguise her appearance during her mysterious tryst.
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Madge claims 'so not true' MADONNA and hubby GUY RITCHIE have put on a show of togetherness and stepped out in public – to prove their marriage isn’t falling apart.
The Queen Of Pop booked a table at a posh Mayfair restaurant on Thursday amid claims their relationship has reached breaking point.
Madge, wrapped in a warm tweed coat, smiled as she and the Lock Stock director turned up at pal Marco Pierre White’s eaterie Luciano for a slap-up meal.
They look strained to me!
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More from The Mirror UK -
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THINGS A BIT TENSE, MADONNA? By Cameron Robertson
MADONNA went into spin overdrive yesterday after the Mirror revealed fears that her marriage is in trouble because of the time she is spending on her career.
The 47-year-old singer went out of her way to present a united front with husband Guy Ritchie.
But the strained look on her face as she waited for the film director to get out of their car at an Italian restaurant will do little to convince fans all is well.
Madonna's PR machine was desperate to play down our pictures yesterday of the star leaving music producer Stuart Price's London home - which doubles as his recording studio - after two and a half hours there.
Friends are worried because she is spending too much time with Stuart, 28, who worked on her album Confessions On A Dancefloor. Her publicist Liz Rosenberg said: "Her relationship with Guy is quite good, they're quite happy. They're certainly not estranged."
But after Madonna waited with her arms folded for Guy, 37, she briskly walked into Luciano's restaurant in West London with him following behind grim-faced.
They married in 2000 and have a son Rocco, five. But she said: "I got married for all the wrong reasons. My husband did not turn out to be everything I'd imagined." Mirror
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MADONNA EXCLUSIVE: NO TIME FOR GUY By Pete Samson
MADONNA and Guy Ritchie's marriage is under massive strain, one of her aides admitted last night.
The Mirror revealed yesterday that the couple's relationship was suffering because the singer is spending much of her time with her record producer Stuart Price, 28, working on her music.
And an aide said: "It is fair to say their relationship has been under huge strain because of Madonna's excessive workload recently.
"She has thrown herself 100 per cent into promoting her album and has little time left to spend with Guy. He'll get over it."
Madonna, 47, went into spin overdrive yesterday to present a united front with film producer Guy.
Her PR machine was desperate to play down our pictures of the star leaving Stuart's London home - which doubles as his recording studio - after two and a half hours there.
He worked on her hit album Confessions On A Dance-floor and they hope to collaborate again.
But there was a posse of photographers there to capture the moment when they turned up at an Italian restaurant in West London.
However the strained look on Madonna's face as she waited for Guy, 37, to get out of their car at Luciano's will do little to convince fans that all was well.
Grim-faced Guy followed behind as Madonna walked briskly to their table.
The singer's aide said: "Madonna and Guy's marriage has always been extremely fiery - but they make no secret of that. She was attracted to Guy because he is his own man and he stands up to her.
"She is a strong, bossy person too, and she like to have things her own way. Often it's fireworks between them."
Earlier Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg had played down any talk of a rift.
"Her relationship with Guy is quite good, they're quite happy. They're certainly not estranged," she said.
The couple married in 2000 and have a son Rocco, five.
Madonna also has a daughter Lourdes, nine, by a previous relationship with her personal trainer Carlos Leon.
She said recently: "I got married for all the wrong reasons. My husband did not turn out to be everything I'd imagined."
A source close to Guy said on Thursday: "He's spending a lot of time at home alone."
peter.samson@mirror.co.uk Mirror
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Feb 4 2006, 09:06 PM
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returning to the subject of Mandingo's missing sense of style, WTH has she got on in this photo- road kill?????
It looks like she scooped a long-dead coyote off the road and added it to her array of garage-sale mismatchables:
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Feb 4 2006, 09:11 PM
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It's Hobo Chic.
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