NOVEMBER 12, 1984 – Madonna released her sophomore album, “Like A Virgin.” It became the Material Girl’s biggest album. The title track spent six weeks at N#1 on Chart Toppers singles chart and spawned the top 5 singles “Material Girl,” “Angel” and “Dress You Up.” It also launched an army of lingerie-clad pre-teen Madonna wannabes.Five singles were released from the album, including Madonna’s first US #1 “Like a Virgin” and her first UK #1 “Into the Groove”. To promote the album, she embarked on “The Virgin Tour,” which had shows in cities of North America only. Like a Virgin has attained significance as a cultural artifact of the 1980s. Madonna proved that she was not a one-hit wonder and was able to provide herself with a permanent footing in the music world. Her songs became a lightning rod for both criticism by conservatives and imitation by the younger female population, especially “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin”. According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, “Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist’s magic moment; for Madonna, ‘Like a Virgin’ was just such a defining moment”.
TRACKLIST:
1) Material Girl2) Angel3) Like a Virgin4) Over and Over5) Love Don’t Live Here Anymore6) Dress You Up7) Shoo-Bee-Doo 8 Pretender
