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MADONNA INTERVIEW : SMASH HITS (JULY 31 – AUGUST 13 1985)

NAME:  It’s really Madonna. Madonna Ciccone. I never became aware that it was such an unusual name until I moved to New York and started getting my name on programmes; people assumed it was a stage name. ANY NICKNAMES?  My father called me Nonny — I think that’s how I said my name when I was little. I gave myself a graffiti tag too: “Boy Toy”. BORN:  In Detroit. What year? Why do I have to tell everybody that all the time? FIRST CONCERT:  David Bowie at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Oh, it was the most marvellous thing I’d ever done in my life! I was punished severely for going. PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS:  Before this blasphemous job? I worked at Burger King and McDonald’s and was a lifeguard and scooped ice cream. I was once a painter’s model: I took all my clothes off and they pretended to draw my body artistically. FIRST CRUSH:  The first boy I ever loved was Ronny Howard in the fifth grade class. He had real white-blond hair and sky blue eyes. He was so beautiful. I wrote his name