April 24 marks 25 years of Madonna!

Just kidding, wow 25 years of M! Well done, love her or hate her, few people manage to hold people's interest for this long!

Now let the RRHOF speculation begin in earnest!

Good for her
Now if she'd only go away

um.... wasn't "Everybody" released in October? I always thought it was.

Dayspring said:

ehuffnsd said:

what a remarkable 25 years...

Dayspring said:

ehuffnsd said:

i thought it was October too, but anyway congrats M!!!

it was. October in the US. December in the UK. I have no idea where the original poster got this April date.

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She's done really well, for someone with very little, raw talent.

whatsgoingon said:

babooshleeky said:

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babooshleeky said:

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CHIC0 said:

babooshleeky said:

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26 April 2007
25 YEARS OF MADONNA
By Samantha Booth


MADONNA is celebrating 25 years in pop - a far cry from her arrival in New York in the late Seventies as a teenage dancer with just $35 in her pocket.

The singer later said it was the bravest thing she'd ever done - she had to resort to nude modelling and serving coffee in Dunkin' Donuts to make ends meet at first.

But in 1982, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone took the first tentative steps towards becoming the world icon she is today.

She is now the most successful female artist of all time, with more than 200 million album sales under her belt and a fortune worth more than £172million.

To celebrate her silver jubilee, here we chart her rise to Queen of Pop.

1982 Madonna signs a deal with Sire Records and releases her first single, the self-written Everybody. Despite being a club hit, it fails to impact on singles charts.


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1983 The dance chart success of Madonna's second single, adouble A-side 12 inch of Burning Up and Physical Attraction, convinces Sire Records to put up the cash for an album.


Simply called Madonna, it sells three million copies worldwide and young girls everywhere start to copy the singer's style.


1984 The Madonna album spawns three hit singles - Holiday, Lucky Star and Borderline - then the star cleans up with her follow-up album, Like A Virgin. She also sparks controversy by appearing at the first MTV Music Video Awards in a bridal bustier and stockings.


1985 Madonna receives mixed reviews of her acting in the film Desperately Seeking Susan, but one of her songs from the soundtrack, Into The Groove, becomes her first UK No1. She marries actor Sean Penn.


1986 Her third album True Blue spawns five chart-topping singles, including Papa Don't Preach and La Isla Bonita.


1987 Not a good year for the Material Girl. She and Penn are rowing and her film Who's That Girl flops at the box office.


1988 The Vatican urge fans to boycott the Italian leg of the Who's That Girl tour declaring Madonna an unfit role model, but residents of Pacentro want to honour her with a 13ft statue of her dressed in a bustier.


1989 The singer divorces Penn, but signs an endorsement deal with Pepsi which sees her debuting new single Like A Prayer in an advert for the drinks giant.


1990 She appears as Breathless Mahoney in a film adaptation of comic book series Dick Tracy. The Thirties feel of the film inspires her fifth album, I'm Breathless, and November sees the release of The Immaculate Collection, her first greatest hits compilation.


1991 Madonna stars in her first documentary, In Bed With Madonna, which follows her on stage and behind the scenes of her Blonde Ambition Tour.


1992 The release of the Erotica album brought the singer yet more controversy due to its high sexual content.


1993 The Girlie Show World Tour saw Madonna dress as a whip-cracking dominatrix surrounded by topless dancers and caused yet more outrage around the world.


1994 With all the sex out of her system, Madonna turned to amore R'n'B flavoured sound for her seventh album Bedtime Stories. This was also the year she starts a relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon.


1995 Starts work on the role of Eva Peron in a film adaptation of the musical Evita. The soundtrack becomes her 12th platinum album.


1996 Evita is released to huge critical acclaim and Madonna gives birth to her first child, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.


1997 Madonna ends her relationship with Leon.


1998 The singer storms back into the charts with the Ray Of Light album, which later wins four Grammy awards.


1999 She tops the singles charts once again with her single Beautiful Stranger, recorded for the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Sh****d Me.


2000 Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle in Scotland, just a couple of months after the birth of their son, Rocco John, and releases album Music.


2001 The star sets out on her first tour in eight years, the Drowned World Tour.


2002 Madonna writes and performs the theme song to James Bond film Die Another Day. It is nominated for a Golden Globe for best original score and a Golden Raspberry for worst song.


2003 She releases her 10th studio album American Life to mixed reviews. Selling only five million copies, it is her lowest selling album.


2004 Performs Hollywood at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she snogs pop princesses Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on stage.


2005 Her 11th studio album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, becomes a runaway success with 10million-plus sales.


2006 Music is no longer the hot issue after Madonna and Guy Ritchie adopt a baby David in Malawi.


2007 Madonna is named the fourth wealthiest woman with an active career in entertainment by Forbes magazine.


She is working on a new album, to be released in November.









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She should burn the masters of the "Like a virgin" album as a celebration event!

Sorry Madonna... I'm proud to say I own NONE of your records and will NEVER see one of your lip-syched dance choriographed (sp?) lame shows... you have never and will never get a dime of my money! Sorry... Talent needed....

DownTheNeedleDownTheSpoon said:

Damn I feel old!

so why is this celebration still going on when it's been pointed out a couple of times that the 25th anniversary isn't until October?

Dewrede said:

Good for her
Now if she'd only go away

well , different strokes for different folks
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DownTheNeedleDownTheSpoon said:

Damn that is 25 years too loooong.

6sixx6 said:

6sixx6 said:

The only Madonna album I ever enjoyed...



There isn't alot of acclaim for this album. But to me, it's her best album. Everything else sucks arse. Except for maybe this...



True Blue is pretty decent.

and this (although, it's very over-rated)...



Everything else, suck arse. Madonna as a whole is a very over-rated artist.
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She has handled her career better than anyone else in pop music.

wait a sec, wasn't her debut released in 1983 and the singles were being released up to 1984?

alphastreet said:

Dayspring said: