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If some stars reached a career cruising altitude where they were identified by just one name — Prince, Madonna, Sting — Jones boiled it down to a single letter: Q.

Others helped her secure her first DJ sets in Chicago, initially as Lady Foursquare, then The Black Madonna.

Kylie has successfully walked that tightrope for five decades, something that fellow pop icon Madonna acknowledged when she asked her to duet on stage in Los Angeles this March.

“So she becomes Madonna over the course of the first three, then ‘Like a Prayer’ consolidates it,” Koenig says.

Christopher Ciccone — the younger brother of Madonna and an artist in his own right — died on Friday at the age of 63.