Depending on how you understand it, Madonna‘s “Like a Virgin” might be a tune about virginity loss. The “Dress You Up” singer shot down that interpretation. She didn’t have kind words for virginal men ...
Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson College in 2022, Cum Laude. She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News ...
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 ...
When filming began on the 1985 screwball comedy Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna was a little-known singer. But during shooting, her monster-hit album, Like a Virgin, was released — and suddenly ...
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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 ...
“I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through.” 40 years ago today, Madonna gave an elite group of friends a preview of two of her biggest hits months ahead of their release at a party ...