![]() ![]() At the end of the performance, she sings a few lines of Marlene's 'Falling In Love Again (Can't Help It)' from the 1930 movie The Blue Angel. Her perfectly timed moves and her play with the Pierrot are hilarious. Dressed in a manly suit and top hat, Madonna performs Like A Virgin as it could've been done by Marlene Dietrich, with a german accent, making it Like A Wurgin. In Toronto, the police even intended to arrest her for this explicit performance.Īs she couldn't perform it any sexier or more erotic than she did on her previous tours, Madonna turned the song into a parody for the Girlie Show. As the song got more intensive and erotic, Madonna moved around faster and faster, eventually simulating masturbation on the bed. She performed on top of a red velvet bed, with beside it two male dancers with fake breasts, who were constantly touching and caressing her. ![]() Madonna wore the notorious golden bustier by Jean-Paul Gaultier, which would go down in history as one of her most defining costume pieces. On the Blond Ambition Tour, the pop song became an erotic masterpiece with Eastern vibes. Only Madonna could top the controversial 1984 VMA performance. At the end, Madonna flirted with the young dancer, who was dressed up as her groom. As an interlude she sang a verse of 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)' (originally by The Four Tops). During this last song, she danced around between her musicians and her backup singers, while she took off her outfit one by one until she was back in her black corset. On the Who's That Girl Tour Madonna sang a medley of Dress You Up, Material Girl and finally Like A Virgin, all in the same goofy outfit. She sang a verse of Michael Jackson's megahit 'Billie Jean' in the middle of the performance as both songs have a similar bassline. She appeared on stage in a wedding dress again and flirted around with her dancers. On the 20th MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera paid tribute to that performance, before singing backup to Madonna's Hollywood.Ī few months after her first VMA performance, Madonna sang the #1 hit on her very first Virgin Tour as one of the closing songs. Dressed in a wedding dress, Madonna crawled on the floor, practically masturbating with the veil, causing an enormous controversy, marking Madonna's true arrival. Madonna performed Like A Virgin for the first time live on the very first MTV Video Music Awards in September 1984, before the actual release of the single. There are also two videos from live performances, one from the Virgin Tour (directed by Danny Kleinmann, released in 1985) and one from the Blond Ambition Tour (directed by Alek Keshishian, released in 1991). It premiered on MTV in the fall of 1984 and became an instant success. It shows two personas of Madonna, one dancing on a gondola who ends up with a man in a lion mask, and another running around in a wedding dress. The original video, directed by Mary Lambert, was shot in Venice, Italy and partly in New York. At its sales peak it sold 75,000 copies a day! It also reached #1 in Canada, Japan, Australia and top 10 positions in numerous other countries. Like A Virgin was her first #1 hit, stealing the top spot in the US for 6 weeks and eventually reaching Gold. On October 31, 1984, it was released simultaneously in the US and Europe as the lead-off single of her second album, and it would soon become one of her biggest classics. The release date had to be pushed back because of the success of Madonna's singles from the first album. The songwriter team gave the demo to Madonna who recorded it with her producer Nile Rodgers. Though Like A Virgin seems tailor-made for Madonna, the song was actually written a year before its release, without any singer in mind. ![]()
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