Madonna Producer Patrick Leonard Talks 'Like A Prayer' at 25
You wrote the album in less than two weeks?
Yeah. Because we wrote a song a day, and we didn't change them. And oftentimes the vocal that she did was the lead vocal, we didn't even change the lead vocal. That was it. She sang it. It was done.
My favorite thing that we ever recorded, ever -- or wrote -- is "Oh Father." That to me is the best thing we ever did, is "Oh Father." So, it didn't surprise me because we knew when we did it, that there was something about this that was in a way kind of the most *real* thing.
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