When was like a virgin released

Out of frustration, I started to clown around, performing the song in an uptempo, Smokey Robinson-style , with falsetto vocals. Lo and behold, it worked. I had just purchased a Roland Jupiter 8 keyboard and we used the Jupiter 8 to create the main keyboard and bass tracks.

For the drum track, we used an old Linn drum computer. We demoed the song quickly, and kept it simple. I sang the falsetto in a Smokey-style voice, then we added some background vocal parts. Even if Steinberg and Kelly were very pleased with their new creation, the song was turned down by many record labels and artists. Steinberg recalls:. Like A Virgin is one. Kelly explained:.

When he heard it, he flipped over the song. He said it would be great for his artist Madonna to record. Madonna immediately loved the song and insisted that it would also be the perfect title for her second album and a perfect song for the first single from that album.

The album producer and supervisor, Nile Rodgers , recalls that he wanted the album concept to turn around the song Material Girl , but Madonna told him:. Like A Virgin was one of those historic rock and roll decisions, where only Madonna believed in that song to the depth that she believed in it.

She is a great artist and that song transformed her life and mine. Nile Rodgers also once described Like A Virgin as the biggest album of his entire career. Madonna recalled:. I thought he was going to take a bite out of me, so I lifted the veil I was wearing and I had a stare down with the lion, and he opened his mouth letting out a huge roar.

I got so frightened my heart fell in my shoe. Like A Virgin — the single — debuted at 48 on on the Billboard Hot issue dated November 17, and reached 1 the week of December 22, — reigning supreme for six weeks.

The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 10, , at a time when the requirement for a Gold single was a million copies shipment across the USA. And that makes definitely sense, thinking about how the song had its first big exposure at the inaugural MTV Awards in Billy Steinberg remembers that special moments:. The camera awkwardly followed her as she rolled around the stage, exposing her voluptuous, but slightly-pudgy body. Inside: a handful of songs that set her apart from every female singer who had come before.

One was Material Girl, which boldly stated that, in her world, love came a distant second to money; another was the title track, which, in the context of a euphoric love song, confidently referred to her sexual history, something mainstream pop girls simply hadn't done before.

A woman in control of her sex life and career was such a new idea that Madonna became the biggest thing to hit pop, and popular culture, in years. I made it through the wilderness Somehow I made it through Didn't know how lost I was Until I found you I was beat, incomplete I'd been had, I was sad and blue But you made me feel Yeah, you made me feel Shiny and new Like a virgin Touched for the very first time Like a virgin When your heart beats next to mine Gonna give you all my love, boy My fear is fading fast Been saving it all for you 'Cause only love can last You're so fine and you're mine Make me strong, yeah, you make me bold Oh, your love thawed out Yeah, your love thawed out what was scared and cold Like a virgin, hey!

Touched for the very first time Like a virgin With your heartbeat next to mine Woah, woah Ahh, woah You're so fine and you're mine I'll be yours till the end of time 'Cause you make me feel Yeah, you make me feel I've nothin' to hide Like a virgin, hey! Touched for the very first time Like a virgin With your heartbeat next to mine Like a virgin Ooh, like a virgin Feels so good inside When you hold me And your heart beats And you love me Ohh, ohh, ohh Ooh baby, yeah Can't you hear my heart beat?

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