Goodbye to Myself

Erotica is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on October 19, 1992, by Maverick and Sire Records. The album was released simultaneously with Madonna's first book publication Sex, a coffee table book containing explicit photographs of the singer, and marked her first release under Maverick, her own multimedia entertainment company. For the album, the singer enlisted Shep Pettibone, with whom she had collaborated on 1990's "Vogue" and The Immaculate Collection, and André Betts.