Music was the first track from the CD titled Music. – “It’s like riding on the wind and it never goes away touches everything I’m in got to have it every day.”
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The very next month I went to North Carolina to attend a family reunion. That Saturday night I went out to the club that I used to dance in when I was the “Ice Princess.” The name of the club had changed from Encore to Warehouse 29. I instantly started reminiscing about the good old days and how that dance floor and Madonna’s music had saved my life.
In January of 2001, I went to Chicago to visit an old friend. I ended up staying there for ten days. A couple of months later I came down with Hepatitis A and was completely bedridden for two whole months. It was the sickest I had ever been in my entire life. My doctor suspected that I ate some bad food during my trip to Chicago. Whatever the case, the recovery process was slow and miserable. At times I felt like I was dying a slow death. But I soon recovered. I had lost about twenty pounds by the time it was all said and done. It was most definitely one of the most challenging rebirths I had ever experienced.
Shortly after my recovery, Madonna announced that she would be going on tour the following summer. I became very excited and realized this would be my chance to see her before I turned 40.
After keeping up with the news about her tour, I was able to score two tickets for the Philadelphia show. Section 1, row 6. The amazing thing was the fact that the show was on July 21, the day before my 40th birthday. I kept my fingers crossed that entire spring, hoping that she didn’t get sick or have to cancel her show. I prayed that everything would go smoothly and I would finally be able to see her perform live before I turned 40.
On July 21, 2001, Cyrus and I saw Madonna’s Drowned World Tour in Philadelphia. Until that point, Madonna had been just an image on the television. For all I knew, she could have been made up, or a figure of someone’s imagination. Seeing her come out on stage that night made her very real. It was utterly amazing to see her in person and know that the person that had written the soundtrack to my life was alive and beautiful. A few hours after leaving the US Airways Center, I turned 40 years old. Little did I know at the time, but Madonna and I would reunite with one another once again, several years later.
Cyrus and I continued to New York City for a few days and once again stayed at the Marriott World Trade Center. I visited the observation deck at the World Trade Center during the day and back that night, and approximately seven weeks later the World Trade Center was destroyed.
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Spoken:)
Hey Mister D.J.
Put a record on
I wanna dance with my baby
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like my Acid Rock
Hey Mister D.J.
Put a record on
I wanna dance with my baby
And when the music starts
I never wanna stop
It’s gonna drive me crazy
Music
Chorus:
Music makes the people come together
[Never gonna stop]
Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel
[Never gonna stop]
Don’t think of yesterday
And I don’t look at the clock
I like to boogie-woogie, uh, uh
It’s like riding on the wind
And it never goes away
Touches everything I’m in
Got to have it everyday
(chorus)
Hey Mister D.J.
[Never wanna stop]
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like my Acid Rock
Hey Mister D.J.
Put a record on
I wanna dance with my baby
And when the music starts
I never wanna stop
It’s gonna drive me crazy
Uh, uh, uh
(chorus)
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like to boogie-woogie
Do you like my Acid Rock
(repeat and fade)
