{"id":731755,"date":"2026-08-08T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731755\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:50:08","slug":"madonna-pays-tribute-to-genius-otherworldly-producer-william-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731755\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna pays tribute to &#8216;genius, otherworldly&#8217; producer William Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time she began working with Orbit, Madonna said she was beginning a new chapter, and Orbit stayed by her side with his &#8220;genius way of hearing music&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The studio was often church-like and I would sit in silence, waiting for your ideas to explode out of your keyboard or your guitar and then I would run with them,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I miss those days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to Ray of Light, Orbit also worked with Madonna on her 2000 album Music and produced several tracks for her 2012 album work MDNA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London-born producer was also renowned and sought-after for his production work, collaborating with artists from across the music world including Blur, Pink, U2, All Saints, Robbie Williams and Britney Spears. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You were so otherworldly. So singular,&#8221; Madonna wrote in her tribute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pop star said even though she worked with other producers over the years, she never forgot Orbit and &#8220;the magical time we spent together&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was so lucky to have known you and fallen down the rabbit hole with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time she began working with Orbit, Madonna said she was beginning a new chapter, and Orbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}