Celebrate "Madonna" The Debut Album's 40th Anniversary: Performances, Demos, Photos, Interviews, Remixes, and More!

[Donna 16,615]

While you can barely make out the video, but here is "Burning Up" performed in 1985 on the Virgin Tour.  Unfortunately, the performance was left off the official Home video release of the tour:

 

[Donna 16,615]

Here is one of many demos of Physical Attraction. No Spoken Bridge and backing vocals or adlibs.

 

[Blue Jean 15,323]

Thank you so much tscott for making this thread ❤️

[Mden 2,252]

6 hours ago, tscott said:

While you can barely make out the video, but here is "Burning Up" performed in 1985 on the Virgin Tour.  Unfortunately, the performance was left off the official Home video release of the tour:

It’s my first time seeing this. Thank u.
 

A great thread. 👍❤️

[truevirgin 57]

Epic. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzi4FpwGIwI

[Donna 16,615]

A rare video glimpse of Madonna performing "Borderline" in Dallas in 1985.  Like "Burning Up", it was left off of the Virgin Tour Home video release:

 

[Donna 16,615]

Madonna being interviewed on Hot Tracks in 1984, talking about Borderline being her latest big song, new album she's working on and a movie she filmed. 

 

 

[Donna 16,615]

photo used for the back of Madonna's debut album:

[Donna 16,615]

In late 2000, Madonna did a promotional gig at Brixton to promote her newly released album "Music".  Among the performances, was an "oldie but goodie".  Let's "show some appreciation!"

 

[DaddyZ 1,567]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[vesalii 1,289]

So, you guys think we’d have a super ultra monster deluxe edition for this album including unreleased tracks?

[scamper 1,999]

56 minutes ago, vesalii said:

So, you guys think we’d have a super ultra monster deluxe edition for this album including unreleased tracks?

I think for this album the most interesting thing could be the videos more than the audios. It was her first album and I've always heard that she didn't record more songs. My guess is that could be "Ain't no big deal" as a bonus track and maybe her version of "Sidewalk talk". The rest, in case she makes a superdeluxe edition will be different takes or remixes. It's just my thought.

On the other hand... The videos, TV performances (if she doesn't have to pay the rights for them) and interviews could be the extras for a deluxe edition. But I guess that if they decide to include TV performances will be one for each song. I don't see them making a dvd with 10 different performances of "Holiday".

 

[Donna 16,615]

1 hour ago, vesalii said:

So, you guys think we’d have a super ultra monster deluxe edition for this album including unreleased tracks?

That would be great, but I wouldn't bet on it.  I'm still holding out for something to be announced by the end of this month.  It might be a tie in with the tour merchandise as well.  I don't expect anything unreleased.  Possibly "Ain't No Big Deal"  and the official mixes.

[vesalii 1,289]

40 minutes ago, scamper said:

I think for this album the most interesting thing could be the videos more than the audios. It was her first album and I've always heard that she didn't record more songs. My guess is that could be "Ain't no big deal" as a bonus track and maybe her version of "Sidewalk talk". The rest, in case she makes a superdeluxe edition will be different takes or remixes. It's just my thought.

On the other hand... The videos, TV performances (if she doesn't have to pay the rights for them) and interviews could be the extras for a deluxe edition. But I guess that if they decide to include TV performances will be one for each song. I don't see them making a dvd with 10 different performances of "Holiday".

 

I’d love to hear sidewalk talk Madonnas version. I mean you Can clearly hear her voice on the actual track but is not the same, and along with the three more unreleased studio versions of Ain’t No Big Deal produced each by Mark Kamins, Stephen Bray and John "Jellybean" Benitez.

Writer's Block would be definitely interesting to hear too!

[Donna 16,615]

Always thought this was a cute version she did on Jimmy Fallon's show back in 2015:

 

[Mden 2,252]

Love this. 

[Donna 16,615]

Here's a similar version to the Jimmy Fallon's during the Tears of A Clown concert:

 

[Mden 2,252]

I wish Tears Of A Clown was professionally shot and be officially released some day. 

[Frank 42,575]

These r the reissues WE NEED:

[Donna 16,615]

12 minutes ago, Frank said:

These r the reissues WE NEED:

FUCK YEAH!  Take my money right now!  This is great.  Though, I always imagined the box it all comes in would be all black, with the Madonna logo text in silver with a red "o".  Also, there needs to be a VInyl option to all this!  But hey, this is great!!!!! 

Unfortunately, I think for some fans it just still won't be enough because they are wanting demos and unreleased material that haven't been leaked yet.  LOL! 

[Donna 16,615]

She'll sing "Holiday", but she's not there on holiday: Hip Hop France

(special thanks to @DanKfor this reconstructed 4K Video edit)

 

[Donna 16,615]

A pretty kick ass remix of Lucky Star similar to the Confession Tours version, but Dimo mixed her original vocals in:

 

[Donna 16,615]

40 Years of an Icon; using studio version of Confession Tour "Everybody":

 

[Donna 16,615]

Rare photos of Madonna in 1982.  Anyone have the background behind these three shots?

 

[Donna 16,615]

 A short interview Madonna did in May 1983 for FlexiPop! when she was in London before her first huge hit:

 

MAD ON THE DANCE FLOOR

By Kris Needs

These days I wake up more and more feeling death's breath around the corner as I near the winter of my years. It's so hard being a drunken bum and working for Flexipop!. I should have been a ballet dancer.

This was the conclusion I came to after talking to the gorgeously perky Madonna, over here recently to say hello and do some club sets.

"The thing about dancing – what it taught me all those years – is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do. It's self-preservation. A lot of people in the music industry wreck themselves. I know that my lifestyle is a lot different from a lot of other people because of the training I've had. It can be a real long life if you make it that way."

And a short one if you don't, I suppose [hack, wheeze, etc]. (This advice was obviously inspired by the alcohol-marinated apparition sitting before her who'd just been to a booze-sodden lig hosted by Noel Edmonds to launch this new invention called the CD.)

Not to worry, though. Madonna's first single – the Rusty Egan-remixed Everybody – is real hangover-repellent, made for the legs and those who find it taxes the old brain too much to lurch along and scoop up the latest hot funk item in over-priced import shops. Madonna performs to backing tapes with three handpicked black dancers she found in the New York clubs. She's quite aware of her power to turn legs to jelly but refuses to do it blatantly.

"I think it's really important to exude sexuality on stage, but I don't think I have to entice men. I don't think people have to be aroused sexually by what you wear. I get over that by way of being sexy just by the way I sing and move on stage.

"The way we dress is sort of playful-innocent: Bermuda shorts, ankle socks and shoes, crazy hats. I don't wanna wear something that I'm going to fall out of. I don't feel comfortable like that. But I'm really physical onstage, y'know? I move around a lot."

Madonna wants to take her music out of ghetto-elite typecasting. "I feel I'm trying to get rid of a lot of stereotype. I come out there and I'm white and look like a boy on stage. I refuse to act the way someone expects me to."

Though she said hello to the big, wide world in Detroit, Madonna was magnetised by New York City as soon as she got out of school; played in a few groups, studied ballet and started writing songs. Now she lives in the heart of the junkie cesspit called the Lower East Side.

"I live in a supposedly dangerous area, near 'Needle Park'. They're always selling stuff in the street outside my apartment building. I don't like it but I like living amongst all the squalor. It's good inspiration.

"Detroit is a more desolate, desperate place. At night everyone locks themselves away. There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all."

Another record is set for release soon – a double A-side coupling two self-explanatory titles: Burning Up and Physical Attraction.

Later that day she turned in an energetic performance at the Camden Palace, leaving many in no doubt that this girl was no flash in the pan.

I'm gonna buy me some shorts.