Madonna had many hits and cultural iconic moments, but Like A Virgin established her as a #1 international star. Since arriving on the Hot 100 the week of Oct. 29, 1983, with “Holiday,” she has earned ...

Pop music history is filled with roads not take. Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” could have been recorded by one of many other artists. The musical geniuses who wrote the track revealed what they thought of ...

It’s almost impossible, given everything that came after, to imagine just how controversial Madonna’s boldly sexual performance at the first MTV Video Music Awards — where she debuted "Like a Virgin" ...

40 years ago, on November 12, 1984, Madonna‘s Like a Virgin album, with its iconic cover art lensed by fashion photographer Steven Meisel, came out and it still makes us feel shiny and new. Released ...

The set Madonna did that night was packed with huge hits, from her mainstream breakthrough, “Holiday,” through “Borderline” and “Lucky Star” to “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl” and a single making ...

We all know it like an anthem: that prowling bassline, the peek-a-boo synth and Madonna’s girl-like voice wafting in on the fourth measure. It’s been 39 years since “Like a Virgin” hit the top of the ...

Madonna has many obvious predecessors (Cher, Donna Summer, Nancy Sinatra) but Smokey Robinson is not one of them. Despite that, Robinson influenced one of the key ingredients of Madonna’s “Like a ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

This Madonna track is now a True Blue classic amid a new milestone. Madonna's 1986 hit song "La Isla Bonita" from her album True Blue became the seven-time-Grammy-winner's first music video to hit 1 ...