28 Years Ago This Week: March 19, 1989, "Like A Prayer" Madonna's newly released single came in the charts at No3.

It wasn't every week that the biggest female artist on the planet released a brand new single - but 28 years ago this week, the Queen of Pop returned to the ARIA chart following an absence of more than 12 months.

Madonna fans' prayers were answered this week in 1989

She wasn't the only star who'd risen to fame earlier in the decade to debut with a new song this week in 1989, but she was far and away the most successful of the artists returning to the chart with fresh material.

ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart - week ending March 19, 1989

The best thing about Madonna's high debut was that it meant that The Proclaimers' days at number 1 were numbered. Yep, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" spent its fifth and final week atop the ARIA singles chart.

Number 3 "Like A Prayer" by Madonna
Peak: number 1

Between her 1984 breakthrough and the end of 1987, Madonna landed 17 hit singles on the Australian top 50 (including four number 1s). Then, no doubt aware that a backlash was inevitable unless she cooled it for a while, the biggest female recording artist on the planet released nothing for more than 12 months. It was just the latest move in a pretty faultless career path to that point - and one which ensured anticipation for the lead single from her fourth studio album was intense.
Musically, "Like A Prayer" was like nothing Madonna had released up until that point and was an even bigger stylistic reinvention than "Live To Tell" had been in 1986. Not only was it a more mature record than anything she'd put her name to before, but its gospel influences and big, bold sound made even naysayers sit up and take notice. "Like A Prayer" was Madonna proving she was more than just a provocative, midriff-bearing pop star.

Not that she didn't still push people's buttons, which is where the music video for "Like A Prayer" came in. Stigmata, an African American Jesus-type figure, burning crosses and Madonna's dancing-cum-writhing in church... there were plenty of things to which religious conservatives could object. And they did. As a result of the furore, Madonna's much-hyped Pepsi commercial was pulled and she was banned by the Vatican. Naturally, it all just helped "Like A Prayer" become one of Madonna's biggest hits - and, in Australia, the highest-selling single of 1989, spending five non-consecutive weeks at number 1 between late March and mid-May. Now, that's how you stage a comeback.

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Madonna Started Filming The "Bedtime Story" Video on December 5 1994.

The inspiration behind the video. Hello everyone! This month’s music video to be analyzed is the for “Bedtime Story”, While this video is tricky for its various sources of inspiration, it’s one of her best, if not the best, and an underrated one by most fans. I am sure that, after reading all of this, you’ll find yourself more in love with the true artist Madonna really is. Madonna called upon “Rain” director Mark Romanek to do the music video for “Bedtime Story” after she saw what he had done with Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”. As she always does, she listened to the song over and over again, trying to think of a concept for a video. The theme she held on to for this one was dreams, it’s meaning, concepts, imagery and works based on it. She’s a huge fan of surrealistic art, in which lots of paintings deal about dreaming, or allude to something unfathomable in real life. She held to that and brought that concept to Romanek, that really liked the idea and wanted to add ...

Rolling Stone - June 13, 1991 - Flesh and Fantasy - Big Time Girl Talk with Carrie Fisher

Madonna and I had met many times over the years, but we had never actually had a conversation. It took this interview to bring us together – she as icon, I as inquisitor of icon [after all, I have already distinguished myself as friend of icon, relative of icon and ex-wife of icon]. I had never done an interview before, and I don’t know that I will again. For me, this has all the makings of a waterloo. The first of the two sessions for this interview took place in the restaurant of the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Madonna wore gold lame; I probably wore black. The last session took place in the offices of her manager, Freddy DeMann. Madonna wore a negligee; I probably wore black. I was late for that first meeting because a friend who had AIDS and who was staying with me had suddenly developed a fever. I called Madonna to say I was on my way. “You’re late,” she informed me. I explained about my friend. “Well, okay, that’s a good excuse,” she said. By the time of our fina...

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