Patrick Leonard wrote the music for, among others: “Like a Prayer,” “Cherish,” “True Blue,” “Live to Tell,” “La Isla Bonita,” “Frozen,” “Hanky Panky,” “Sky Fits Heaven,” “Nothing Really Matters,” “I’ll Remember,” and “Something to Remember.” He was a producer on “Open Your Heart.”
Madonna wrote the lyrics, Leonard says, with him, and helped create the melodies. He considers her a friend and mentor. “She put me on the map,” he says, “I’m grateful.”
“I’m one of those people behind the curtain.” Leonard says. “If she [Madonna] hadn’t sung those songs, no one would have heard them. She’s made it possible for me to do what I’m doing now.”
Their process was simple. He wrote the music, and brought it to Madonna. She would help supply lyrics and offer changes in the music to suit her. “She’d refine it,” he says. “You give her a track, she sings the melody. She’s very very talented.” Of their collaboration, he says, “One doesn’t exist without the other. She always showed up and she was always completely involved. I miss her, actually.”
They haven’t written together since 1997. Would he like to do it again? “Absolutely,” Leonard says. “She writes a lot with deejays now.”
Could you PLEASE remove those lines from roger friedman? he HATES madonna and keeps inventing **** about her even in this little interview because patrick said nice things about her! Just remove it! ". He wrote the music, and brought it to Madonna." are NOT patrick's words!
Could you PLEASE remove those lines from roger friedman? he HATES madonna and keeps inventing **** about her even in this little interview because patrick said nice things about her! Just remove it! ". He wrote the music, and brought it to Madonna." are NOT patrick's words!
i know i know but everybody with half a brain knows that rf can't be taken seriously by any means.
just look where he is now.
from forbes which is non reliable to showbiz411 which nobody knows.
Could you PLEASE remove those lines from roger friedman? he HATES madonna and keeps inventing **** about her even in this little interview because patrick said nice things about her! Just remove it! ". He wrote the music, and brought it to Madonna." are NOT patrick's words!
I was about to say, haha. There's no way that any track on ROL was "brought to Madonna."
I miss that Madonna too. I feel like she'll go in a similar route to American Life, but I really hope if she wants to be political next era, she completely changes her sound from HC and MDNA.
The pic in the original post is actually beautiful. It's somehow really cool to know the sweet (yeah, I said it ) and motherly-looking woman pictured went on to have children of her own. And Jessie is super cute.
Patrick Leonard's work with Madonna has always been fantastic so I'd be very interested in the prospect of more. I hope his comments will reach her and she'll in turn at least consider a reunion.
madonna's collaborations with patrick leonard are the MAIN reason why madonna should be in the songwriters hall of fame (with led zeppellin and others of course), for example:
-live to tell
-like a prayer
-cherish
-oh father
-promise to try
-dear jessie
-skin
-nothing really matters
) and motherly-looking woman pictured went on to have children of her own. 