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 ...

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 ...

Madonna‘s “Like a Virgin” is one of the most important dance songs of the 1980s. You’d think every artist would have wanted to record it! However, other artists had major issues with the track. Things ...

“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 ...

Madonna has many obvious predecessors (Cher, Donna Summer, Nancy Sinatra) but Smokey Robinson is not one of them. Despite that, Robinson influenced one of the key ingredients of Madonna’s “Like a ...

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" ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...