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Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs (Warner Bros, 1977) Genre: Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock Artwork: Lou Beach Bandcamp

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"The series of events that brought Madonna to my hospital bed began months earlier when Mark Kamins started dropping hints," Stein shared with Variety in 2018. "Danceteria was still the number-one downtown club, and Mark was arguably New York’s hottest deejay. Unfortunately, he wasn’t making enough money and knew he had to broaden his professional horizons while he was in such demand. I told him flat out that no big artist would ever risk working with an unproven producer, even if he was New York’s hippest deejay. Like everyone else, he’d have to earn his stripes by finding nobodies and making them sound like stars."

Kamins accepted the challenge: "I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t been played this demo yet, so I arranged for my secretary to send the cassette into Lenox Hill Hospital, where I duly slotted it into my Sony Walkman," Stein recalled. "As penicillin dripped into my heart, I lay there and listened to Mark’s first find. I’m sure I was going nuts in that little room, but I immediately felt an excitement. I liked the hook, I liked Madonna’s voice, I liked the feel, and I liked the name Madonna. I liked it all and played it again. I never overanalyze or suck the life out of whatever I instinctively enjoy. I reached over and called up Mark. 'Can I meet you and Madonna?'"

Kamins brought the aspiring singer to Stein's hospital bed, where Madonna turned up the heat: "She was all dolled up in cheap punky gear, the kind of club kid who looked absurdly out of place in a cardiac ward," Stein laughed. "She wasn’t even interested in hearing me explain how much I liked her demo. 'The thing to do now,” she said, 'is sign me to a record deal.' She then opened her arms and laughed. 'Take me, I’m yours!' She was goofing around doing a Lolita routine because I was twice her age. Or maybe I really was smiling back at her like a dirty old man, because she didn’t take long to cut through all the small talk and go straight for the kill. Peering into the back of my head with those Madonna eyes, she said, 'And now, you give me the money.'"