Fab 5 Freddy and Madonna

Hanging at the club - New York - 1982.

1982

Sire Records set Madonna to be photographed with Peter Cunningham for her first batch of publicity photos in 1982.

An Entire Photo Shoot based off the one Amy Arbus Shot of Madonna

In The Evidence Of Her Brilliance

Another example of the enormous importance of Madonna's individual street style that changed fashion in the early 80's and is still driving it well into the following century.

View them fully HERE.

An editorial shot by Inez & Vinoodh for the June/July 2011 Vogue Paris edition, styled by great Joe McKenna, inspired by Madonna NY 80's shot by Amy Arbus.

Thanks to Pedro.

The Pied Piper

This fabulous scan is from that recent OUT magazine. I love this photojournalistic shot - just Madonna being Madonna. This was in the summer of 1982. xo

Rare Madonna 1982

Out Magazine

Corman says:

"She was like the Pied Piper of the neighborhood - [the kids] loved her. They followed her, they danced with her, they sang with her. It was something they did on a daily basis, and it was remarkable. We just walked up and they gathered around. She put the boom box on -- it was her music, though I don’t remember which song - and they just started dancing and singing. She was so alive and unpretentious. She was fierce, determined. Nothing was going to stop her."

Madonna and Martin Burgoyne on the Vogue Desperately Seeking Susan shoot, which she asked Richard Corman for a print.

Well, Out Magazine finally got it right because whatever they were thinking in 2006 is beyond me when dealing with The Greatest Star That Has Ever Lived for her first ever Out Magazine cover.

visit Out.com to see the rest of the portfolio.

Unbelievable - 30 Years Ago - Stay '81

The other day as I was blogging the Peter Cunningham photographs of Madonna, I put 1982 in the tags. 1982 - as I've done a gazillion times before - ! - But it's 2011! Wow, in one year Madonna has professionally been with music for 30 years! Those pics are older than most of her fans! It's unbelievable. She's unbelievable.

For Madonna, she's been at it since 1980. And this gem was on the demo tape that got her signed to Sire Records in 1982. Its the early version of Stay (the Virgin version produced by Nile Rodgers is a mixture of this and Don't You Know?) and it was recorded in 1981.

It was mentioned in both Rolling Stone (Madonna Goes All the Way - November 1984) and in Michael McKenzie's Lucky Star book.

Ever since I knew there were early versions, I was dying to hear them. I didn't get to hear them until 1996 when Stephen Bray released them, but it was well worth the wait and one of my all-time favorite Madonna recordings.

Madonna '82

Another Artichoke

One I haven't seen from the artichoke series. Fantastique!

It's Always Been the Same

SUCK IT!!!

The Entire "Fame" Audition - Fabulous.

Look up, look down, look straight ahead.

I'll tell you. Fuck Fame, she is Fame. It's because she's too sexual by nature. Eyes flapping...She's Madonna. And they couldn't take it. They should have just written a part for her. She can't squeeze in. Too Potent. End.

"Meet me in the library. 7 o'clock."

Just One Day Out of Life

Hard

One of my favorite images of Madonna. From the Lucky Star Book. xo

1982

Gorgeous

The REAL Material Girl

With everything found in the gutter. Fabulous.

Full of Wonder

Feel the Beat and Step Inside

The First Album: Madonna - Lucky Star.

As most of you know, Madonna's first album was originally set to be called Lucky Star. Photographed by Maripol's boyfriend, Edo Bertoglio and designed by Martin Burgoyne. Wheels were in motion, copies were pressed but then Madonna sat with Gary Heery and everything was changed. Thank God. And that's exactly what I told some dude peddling it at the Madonna convention in 2000 chasing me down trying to get me to buy it. I mean, as great as it is, it looks more like a Cherelle album than Madonna. All colorized/tinted and shyt.


Fans first saw the Edo Bertoglio photographs in Madonna's first biography, the Martin Burgoyne designed book of the same name, Lucky Star. They're fabulous, sexy, with a splash of old Hollywood and wonderful but I'm sure we are all in agreement that the final product was, in fact, the best choice. If not one of the greatest records covers of all time. Certainly, it is for me.

Edo Bertoglio photograph of an early Madonna. Gorgeous.

The back side of the Burning Up single when the album was still called Lucky Star.

The Real Deal. The way it was supposed to be. There could have been no other.

Madonna, Martin Burgoyne, Erica Bell and Bags at Haoui Montaug's No Entiendes Cabaret Performing 'Everybody' for the very first time - 1982.

In early 1985, fans got their first proper Madonna Book - like Culture Club's When Cameras Go Crazy only better because it was Madonna, Lucky Star.

The Lucky Star Book, as my friends and I referred to it, was written by Michael Mckenzie and designed by Martin Burgoyne - it was our Bible. It was the first time we saw Island Magazine!

Full of never before seen pictures taken not only by the books author but Laura Levine, Beth Baptiste, Dan Gilroy, Stephen Jon Lewicki (Bruna!), Marcus Leatherdale, Patrick McMullan, Debroah Feingold, Edo Bertoglio (Maripol's boyfriend) and heaps others. It was the first time fans had read about about Madonna's debut performance of Everybody in detail. It had taken place at the Danceteria at Haoui Montaug's Caberet Show, No Entiendes.

Like reading about the 4 track demo that got her signed to Sire Records, I thought it would never see the light of day. However, a few years ago, Everybody hit the internet.

To make a long story longer, I remember the day I bought my first computer. I got it at Best Buy and it was that very day at that very store that I saw Stephen Bray's Pre-Madonna, the cd that not only had the songs from the 4 track demo but some new ones that I had only read about in Entertainment Weekly. I was more excited about the cd than my computer.

Anyway, here it is. Madonna's very first performance of Everybody at the Danceteria plus scans of details from The Lucky Star Book.

 

More Cunningham

These are the first proper publicity shots Sire had taken of Madonna in 1982. The one in the weeds is part 2 of the one they sent out as promo.