Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour (1985)

Original title

Madonna: The Virgin Tour Live

Directed by

Daniel Kleinman, James Foley

Genre

pop music

Country

United States

Runtime

50 min

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1985 concert video captures Madonna performing songs from her early career at a Detroit arena. The footage shows her on stage during her Virgin Tour, with an added introductory segment where she reflects on her rise to fame.

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What happens

Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour is the second video album and the first live release by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released by Warner Music Video and Sire Records on November 13, 1985 and contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Director Daniel Kleinman, who presided over the shooting of the tour on video, submitted the footage to Warner Bros. Records, who decided to release it as a video album. Madonna wanted to have a proper introduction added before the concert footage and asked director James Foley to shoot one, which portrayed her with her first image makeover, reciting lines related to how she became famous. After its release, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour received mixed reviews from critics, but went on to become a commercial success, topping the Music Video Sales chart of Billboard and becoming the top selling music video cassette of 1986. The video was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 100,000 copies and in September 1986, it received a "Video Software Dealers Award" for the Most Popular Music Video. The live performances of "Like a Virgin" and "Dress You Up" were released as music videos on MTV to promote the video album. Both videos were nominated for "Best Choreography" at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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