True to form, Tina Brown’s new website, The Daily Beast, has been soliciting the help (or perhaps the other way around) of another biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales. On Brown’s news and comment website, Andrew Morton, who has also written a biography of Madonna and is a regular blogger on the site, has posted exclusive tapes of some very early recordings made by the singer, which you can hear.

The tapes were recorded by Dan Gilroy, Madonna’s boyfriend at the time, in the basement flat they shared in Queens, New York, and Morton has mixed them with Madonna’s acceptance speech when she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year. “It is sweet and raw. It signifies to me how far she has come, a reminder of the explosion of talent”, says Morton.

The formal nature of her speech, juxtaposed with rather intimate conversations in bed with Dan and her amateur drum playing and singing, do work surprisingly well together. But one does wonder where Morton got hold of them. The tapes will surely get pulled soon, with the soon-to-be-ex Mrs Ritchie’s PR team working overtime at the moment, but enjoy an interesting little insight in to the early years while it lasts.

Bebo seems to have taken it upon itself to become the MTV of the internet. Back in August, Web Watcher introduced you to The Secret World of Sam King, a faux reality show charting the daily trials of a runner at a music production company — a slick, if admittedly saccharine offering.

Since then they have produced a range of “youth television”, the latest of which is Chelsey OMG. Chelsey is a young, big-bosomed American who has just moved to London, a bit like The Hills or Brooke Knows Best — but worse. This would probably look more appropriate posted as a video blog on “Chelsey’s” Bebo page, than on internet TV.

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