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.

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.

What's Your Favorite Video From Madonna/Madonna - The First Album?

From Madonna's decadent debut album, Madonna, she had four great videos that reflected different eras in the early history of motion picture. With each video she progressed, as the medium of The Music Video grew with the advent of MTV.

Film Exhibition: Everybody (1982). Like a Nickelodeon machine but projecting outward in clubs, the sexy downtown street waif beckons everyone to dance and sing, get up and do their thing. A glimpse inside the underworld in which she came. Performing on stage, people are dancing beneath her and walking across her stage with a boom box, she unaffected.

Symbolism: Burning Up (1983). Raunchy Sex Goddess in heat that crawled up from the gutters into a world of goldfish bowls, Grecian/Roman marble busts with illuminating eyes, an abundance of door locks, chains, eyeballs and lips. Doors turn into boats and a car drives through the river around her. She ends up in the middle of a road, tugging at her garment as she's the target of a speeding driver. Just as the car would impact her and she would end up as road kill, she emerges driving the vehicle with the initial male driver nowhere to be found.

Narrative: Borderline (1984). Photographer discovers strikingly beautiful street girl as she's dancing with her lover and friends. Flattered at his proposal to pose for photographs, girls jealous boyfriend disapproves as she and photographer drive off to the studio. Being shot in a series of photos and ending up on a cover of a magazine, girl has flashbacks to her life when it was easy, sexy, fun and free. Bored with the glamorous champagne atmosphere photographer provides, an argument ensues, she rebels and returns to guy she loves.

Technique: Lucky Star (1984). A visual and voyeuristic study of performance and personae using close up, medium and long shots via fast paced editing. A character study of the dancer with the use of a motion picture camera. From the moment she removes her sunglasses, she 'lifts the curtain' to expose herself to the viewer. Long shots of dancers performance, close up of body parts from eyes, lips, stomach, feet and bellybutton. Performer allows us into her narcissistic world while making love to the camera as it follows every move leading to a personal extravaganza and ending with performer 'dropping the curtain' by putting glasses back on.

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Which is your favorite video from the Madonna album and why?

Come on...

You must be my Lucky Star
‘Cause you make the darkness seem so far
And when I’m lost you’ll be my guide
I just turn around and you’re by my side

Starlight, star bright
You make everything all right
What you do to me, baby
You’ve got to stay by my side tonight

Come on

September 4, 1987 - Torino, Italy - Madonna in Concerto

23 years ago on September 4th, Madonna performed in Torino, Italy. The concert performed at the Communale Stadium was a monumental television event. It was broadcast live on TV in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Austria. In Italy alone, the broadcast was watched by an estimated 14 million households. The Who's That Girl Tour ended 2 days later in Florence, Italy on September 6th.

While in Italy, Madonna - with brother Christopher - met with extended family from Pacentro. Here's a clip of the pre-concert broadcast where RAI television spoke with Madonna's extended family and designer Giorgio Armani.

And some brilliant Lucky Star where she's on fire!

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"living for madonna's immaculate collection via projector.,ugh so major" - Marc Jacobs Twitter Twat

Well, of course - look at her! Fantastique.

Madonna Introduces Lucky Star - love me, love me, love me...

Early Interview - Spring 1984

Madonna/Maripol Polaroid HQ

You know, you may be my lucky star, But I’m the luckiest by far

madonna/madonna VHS + counter promo

Lucky Star - Billboard - weeking ending 09.28.84