Over the years we’ve all bought into Madonna’s style, her music, her ability to reinvent herself, her crude, over the top behaviour on stage and in the pages of her book, Sex, which incidently she wrote as a character named Mistress Dita, inspired by the silent film actress Dita Parlo, illustrating that her whole career has been built on a cacophony of stolen images and ideas?

Even in the words of the Material Girl’s hit song, Vogue, she was telling of her need to be something better, be somewhere else, be something different?

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