Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Porn Pop

Oooh Yeah, Ooooh Yeah
C'mon

The song was Holiday, her name was Madonna and she was Porn Pop. Nobody could take it and they still can't. Although they all try and byte it.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Roxy


You're Confusing Me
Cause I don't know if you want me
But I know that I want you
And that's nothing to be ashamed of
What are you gonna do?

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Holocaust Chic

Fantastique!

Madonna performs Everybody, Burning Up and Holiday at London's Camden Palace on October 13, 1983.

Friday, July 29, 2011

A Star is Born

Where it all began. I had the first album for a few months and then at the newsstand in December of 1983, I came across this - a first album outtake in color blasting A STAR IS BORN on Billboard magazine. This was my third photograph of Madonna - before I had seen any video.

It would be a good 3 months before I would see the video for Borderline. Really her first video, they didn't play Burning Up or Everybody until after the success of Borderline. I would see those on MV3, a local Los Angeles new wave video program hosted by KROQ's Richard Blade.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Madonna/Madonna: The First Album


This was, is and will always be my favorite photo session and album cover of all time - until they throw dirt on my grave. And even then, it will remain.

Everything about it is perfect. The hair, the fuck face, the
jewelry, even the t-shirt. I know Gary Heery shit himself when he saw that popping through that camera. Wrapped in crucifixes, cock rings, leather, rubber and chains - it's punk, slut, fag and bytch. Above all, it's timeless and modern. Like an Italian glamorous tom boy gap-toothed Marilyn crawling out of the gutter. Doesn't get any better than that. Does it? DOES IT?

Fabulous.

Like the Virgin one, I made a few out of these - you can get the others on the madonnascrapbook.tumblr page. xo

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Julien's Live Auctions Madonna Photos

Edo Bertoglio's contact sheet with her and Martin Burgoyne.






Julien's Live Auction is offering up some Madonna photos. The last one here they say is her in a bathing suit! Check it out HERE.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Dear Rock Paper Photo,

No, it's not New York City - it's Spokane, Washington on the set of Vision Quest. If you want to sell something for 4,000 dollars you might want to get the location right. :rolleyes: But it's fabulous nonetheless.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A Portrait of M - Curtis Knapp Book



Curtis Knapp has put a book together of his session with Madonna from 1983. Of course, we all know the photos from the legendary Island Magazine, her first magazine cover.

Monday, March 28, 2011

1983 - Everybody Live at The Roxy and the KA-KA Shirt!


Well, this is just everything - of course. I would have died for this footage growing up - and I want the whole thing!!! They played this footage on RAI television in Italy. I know for sure that she also sang Physical Attraction but I don't know about the other songs. This is right at the time she shot the Gary Heery pics for the Madonna/Madonna album. That hair is so freshly bleached, just the right length and it's the exact jewelry.

It's all about that bruja gypsy dance and outfit. .:And Betty's favorite flats!:. Who else can just throw on old pieces of trash, flash an old movie star face, move in that motion and blaze brilliant street style? Only Madonna. They all try too hard these days.



Also take notice of The Ultimate Fabulousness. I was always obsessed with her KA-KA shirt that we first saw in the devoted completely to Madonna magazine for A Certain Sacrifice in 1985. The picture was from the rehearsal footage that Stephen Jon Lewicki shot in 1979. And 5 years later she wore the KA-KA shirt in this performance!


She also wore the KA-KA shirt at the Peppermint Lounge performance in 1983.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Rare Pic from Out Magazine


Here's another rare Richard Corman shot. Never seen this one. This is from the shoot he did for a shelved New York Cinderella-like story they were pitching for a film of Madonna's rise. The Burning Up video was shot around this time line.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

That Full Holiday Performance!


I've never seen the entire performance - just clips! It says 1983 but isn't it 1984?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

LID Magazine - Madonna No.9






















Ok, this is LID No.9. Fabulous on every level. The Roof Shots. The Greatest Dress - never to be seen again. The Face. The Hair. Debi Mazar was there! The Sex. The Photographer - the Legendary Kate Simon (plus interview!). The Lucky Star Boots! Catch an early Nikki Finn up and through. Arriving as is - hair, make up, clothes. Everything.

I've had it since it was released but it's such a bytch to take magazines in such great condition and ruin it by scanning but it's for us fans and what's a few of life's creases? They're not the'best of' scans but they're fabulous in their straight scan state. Love them, use them, spread them. They're glorious.

Oh yeah and the back cover is a B/W of the Louis Vuitton ads of 2010. She is the magazine.


Every shot's a winner because, well...it's Madonna. Enjoy!