July 27, 1983 // 36th Anniversary of Madonna's Debut Album

July 27, 1983 // 36th Anniversary of Madonna's Debut Album - How Will You Celebrate?

MADONNA - THE FIRST ALBUM

Album cover, shot by Gary Heery

After the successful release of her first two singles
Everybody and Burning Up, Warner Records gave Madonna

the permission to produce her first album. Though New
York DJ Mark Kamins had discovered Madonna and

produced Everybody, Madonna decided to work
with Warner producer Reggie Lucas for the rest of the album.

They started recording Lucky Star, a song written by
Madonna, and Borderline, which was a composition of Lucas.

Soon both realised they couldn't cooperate that well.
Lucas produced the album his way, while Madonna

complained that she had different concepts and ideas.
She took the finished but unsatisfactory album to her

friend John -Jellybean- Benitez, who remixed and
rearranged the whole album. He also added a song written

by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens: Holiday. This song would
establish Madonna as the new dance act of the

early 80s. Of course later it would grow into one of
Madonna's best classics. Though the album at first got

the name 'Lucky Star', it was released on July 27th,
1983 simply as 'Madonna'. Madonna dedicated the album

to her father.

On the album charts, it reached #6 (UK), #8 (US, France), and #10 (Australia).
The album spent a total of 168 weeks on the Billboard 200. In October 2000,
it was certified 5 times Platinum in the US, while selling over 8
million copies worldwide.
In September 1985, the album was re-issued under the name 'The First Album',
using different art work (right-side cover). In 2001 the album was remastered with
improved sound and remixes of Burning Up and

Lucky Star, and also using the original art work (left-side cover).

Singles

Everybody - October 1982 (US)

Burning Up - March 1983 (US)

Holiday - October 1983 (US) / February 1984 (Eur.)

Borderline - February 1984 (US) / June 1984 (Eur.)

Lucky Star - August 1984 (US) / April 1984 (Eur.)

Outtakes & Demo tracks

Ain't No Big Deal

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