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10 hours ago, Roland Barthes said:

Talking about the Holiday video, i've just read this in the Lucky Star book from 1985 by Michael McKenzie & Martin Burgoyne 

 

So the Burning Up video was not released at the same time as the single but way after the album release and after the Holiday single release (the first off the album in june of 1983) when the song was finally a hit after Thanksgiving of 1983. That's when they did the Burning Up video. 

 

Then Borderline AND Lucky Star were shot a week apart in February of 1984

 

Like A Virgin was supposed to be released on july 18th 1984 but was postponed due to the success of the re-release of Lucky Star (originally released in september of 1983). 

 

The timeline was really confusing to me, fact is the videos were not released with the singles except for Borderline and the re-release of Lucky Star but why did they shot that video in february when the single had been already out since september and if Holiday was too "dance oriented" for MTV then, so was Lucky Star, unless that one, in all its simpicity was made exclusively for clubs. So Jellybean remixed Burning Up in the last quarter of 1983 to make it sound less "dance oriented" and more "new wave" because that was what MTV played then (Rock and New Wave only). So maybe they sent Lucky star to MTV and people digged it even though it was too dance oriented for MTV. How this one got re-released and pushed back Like A Virgin (which already had a release date as seen in this book) to november is still a blur (to me at least). 

 

The official US release date for Lucky Star as a stand-alone single was August 8, 1984. Prior to that it was the B-Side to Holiday which was released on September 7, 1983. Holiday was chosen as the A-Side because it was performing better in the clubs. The UK got Lucky Star as a single first, on September 9, 1983. It was released to coincide with her performance at Camden Palace, You can see the "sunglasses" 12" in the background of the photos from Camden Palace. At the start of 1984 Madonna had to pay huge legal fees as she was being sued by Camille Barbone for breach of contract. She was persuaded to record a video for Lucky Star as it was sure to boost album sales and make her enough money to pay off the legal debt. Due to heavy rotation on MTV and good radio play, Warners decided to put it out as the 5th and final single from the first album, even though Like A Virgin was about to drop.