In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called -Deep in Vogue.- Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits of her career, with the single -Vogue, - and when Jennie Livingston's film Paris Is Burning arrived in cinemas the same year, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the mainstream got hip to New York City's extraordinary ball culture, from which the film and McLaren and Madonna's songs had arisen. Paris Is Burning documented a gay ballroom scene that emerged in Harlem in the mid-1980s, which drew African American...
In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called -Deep in Vogue.- Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits of...