VOTE: Most Iconic MTV VMA Performance

Don't just stand there, let's get to it.

The one who really created it all. The one that bitch slapped MTV and turned popular music upside down. Vote for Madonna's legendary 1984 MTV Performance of Like a Virgin where she slithered off that cake with a pulsating pussy and humped that floor in front of a world that couldn't take it.

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Borderline 45

From Madonna's Borderline 45 fold out poster.

Madonna's First Ever Sit Down Interview with MTV

Wearing her fabulous stink hole leather jacket that was signed by everyone including Andy Warhol and a T Shirt by Keith Haring - that she cut up to make her head band - Madonna stopped by and spoke to Mark Goodman in her first ever televised sit down interview in May 1984 to deliver her sex to America. Mark Goodman wanted to fuck her.

Borderline

Fake but Fabulous

Someone trying to pull off a little Borderline hat and Lucky Star sun glasses on a Feingold pic for a t-shirt. Fake but fab.

Work of Art

Like a painting come to life.

An article on MTV from Vanity Fair - Birth of an MTV Nation.

On making Like a Virgin. Look at that gorgeous cinematography. Worth every cent.

The Virgin Madonna

I've Got Something That You'll Really Like

Let's do this one for Keith.

Photographs featured in the Borderline Video

Who the fuck took these photographs that were in the Borderline video and why don't we have them? I've been waiting since 1984!!!

Yellow Nail Polish

Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Summer Songs - Borderline #9

9. ''BORDERLINE'' (1984)

Madonna

The headlines belonged to Walter Mondale's slow death march against Ronald Reagan. But the airwaves succumbed to that poignant opening keyboard lick, burbling disco melody, and masochist-delight lyrics. If infatuation is an essential summer experience, then so is romantic frustration. Pleading while standing up for herself, Madonna scored her first top 10 hit and made romantic disappointment as uplifting as it'll ever be.

Madonna and Jellybean at Private Eyes 1984

So beautiful. Summer of '84 - when Lucky Star was out. This shot was in all the magazines back in the day. One of my all-time favorites.

Rare Madonna Photo Found in Keith Haring Book in Hong Kong

Madonna photo found of her wearing that Keith Haring leather jacket from 1984. She wore this jacket for Like a Virgin on Solid Gold and Top of the Pops. Brought to us by Jason. xo

Andy Warhol Photographs Madonna at Her 'Like a Virgin' Record Release Party.

These photographs of Madonna and Jellybean were taken by Andy Warhol at her Like a Virgin record release party on November 7, 1984 - held at the Private Eyes nightclub. The photo above is from the Andy Warhol Diaries, the photo below I found years later in a random Warhol book and I scanned and sent it over to the fantastic Mikael who ran MadonnaShots.

Madonna/Madonna VHS Cassette plus Record Store Counter Promo

When this 4 track Video VHS came out in late 1984, it was bliss! Borderline (still my all-time fav), Burning Up - finally in great quality - I used to have to watch MV3 with Richard Blade here in Los Angeles to get Burning Up and Everybody because MTV didn't play those. The club version mix of Lucky Star. And, of course, the original Like a Virgin - which is Mary Lambert's original cut and the first one they showed on MTV for the first couple of weeks of their exclusive.

This is the Record Store Counter Promo they had for the VHS. It folds under and it stands straight up like a pyramid. Fab.

Madonna Thinks Back to Making the Like a Virgin Video in Venice, Italy

And what the Italians thought of her.

The Day After

Madonna by Steven Meisel for the Like a Virgin album at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, 1984.

Dress You Up - Paradise Garage - 1984 Keith Haring's Birthday

Dress You Up at Keith's birthday. Can never see this too many times. We need the rest of this footage! She performed this and Like a Virgin six months before the albums release. Fabulous.

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.

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NME's 100 Gigs You Should Have Been At

Madonna at the Hacienda, 1984.