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One of the rarest magazines to feature Madonna on the cover is The Quiet Storm from Thailand (December 1984). There is only a small number of 1984 magazines that have Madonna as the cover star and some of them are quite hard to find. The rarest of all is probably The Quiet Storm. The magazine…
Madonna’s final single from her debut album was “Borderline” We have added three separate adverts for the single to our The First Album page HERE Two adverts were published in UK magazines and the earliest is from R&R Magazine February 1984
‘Madonna couldn’t be hotter’ is the first line of the promotional advert for ‘Lucky Star’ as published in R&R Magazine in August 1984. A very similar advert was published in Canada, stating ‘her album is now GOLD in Canada & on the verge of eruption, courtesy of her third CHR hit “Lucky star” Check out…
The legendary Blond Ambition Tour has only ever been officially released on VHS and laserdisc, unfortunately we are still waiting for a DVD or blu-ray (or even digital) release. The final show in Nice France was released on laserdisc by Pioneer and the show in Japan available on laserdisc as well as VHS. For our…
This article on Madonna was published in Britain’s ‘Black Echoes’ magazine on November 5, 1983 ‘…Madonna’s songs are so individual, the album has turned out far from traditional. Hardly surprising when you trace back through the numerous chapters of her short existence. She’s young yet she’s done so much but, more exciting, she promises to…
The last batch (for now) of original promotional adverts for Madonna’s third single ‘Holiday’ released in 1983 have been added to the ‘adverts’ tab of The First Album page. Three were published in R&R Magazine and the fourth is a UK advert (not pictured here)
More promo adverts for Madonna’s third single ‘Holiday’. The adverts are from R&R Magazine and were published in November and December, 1983. They give some advice though: MADONNA wise men are following her star They have been added to our The First Album page (adverts tab) More on the way
Updated and restyled in our videography is Ciao Italia: Live From Italy video release! Madonna’s Who’s That Girl Tour was filmed professionally in both Tokyo and Turin, the both combined became the final commercial video release in 1988. We have 15 variations of this release for you to view HERE
Yesterday we posted one of the first interviews Madonna every did when she visited The Netherlands back in January 1984, this was published in OOR magazine (Feb 11, 1984). In that same issue they reviewed Madonna’s debut album, see English translation below: The Detroit-born dancer and singer Madonna wound up in the music business through…
Take a look at this very early interview originally published in Record Mirror dated February 26, 1983. Madonna was on to promote her debut single ‘Everybody’ and spoke about macho hunks, being a very sexual person, going to Paris and upcoming single ‘Burning Up.’ This article has been added to the press section of The…
One of the rarest and most gorgeous promotional adverts is this one for ‘Holiday’. Originally published in R&R Magazine on November 11, 1983. ‘Holiday Greetings from Madonna’ ‘Behold a good single has been given unto you. Play it.” Madonna’s “Holiday” This advert has been added to the ‘adverts’ tab on our The First Album page…
More promotional articles on ‘Holiday’ have been added to The First Album page (press and adverts tab). ‘This is the story of Beauty and the Bullet – the first single from the star of the ’80s’ according to R&R Magazine in 1983, guess they forgot about ‘Everybody’ and ‘Burning Up’ More coming up.
While ‘Island’ magazine (October 1983) is notorious for being Madonna’s first ever magazine cover, Madonna actually appeared on the cover of a magazine before. Though not a full feature cover, one of her press images appears on the November 27 1982 edition of Dance Music Report. Madonna’s debut single ‘Everybody’ was featured the Breakouts featurette…
This is an original and extremely hard to find original promotional advert for the ‘Like a Virgin’ album from Holland. Translation: Madonna’s brand new record ‘Like a Virgin’, produced by Nile Rodgers, you know the producer of Duran Duran, Sister Sledge and David Bowie. In fact the entire Chic team plays a part on ‘Like…
The very first time Madonna covered the Dutch Nieuwe Revu magazine was on the March 27 – April 4 1985 edition. While the four page spread inside was a Dutch translation of the interview originally from Face magazine, the pictures were by Dutch photographer Kees Tabak. Seldom seen and now here for you to view…
Madonna’s Who’s That Girl Tour was officially released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc as a Mitsubishi special. This was not ‘Ciao Italia’ which was also released in Japan, but the full show filmed in Japan. The ‘Ciao Italia’ release did include footage from the Japanese recording, but more on that when we get to…
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