Madonna Extreme

Yeehaw!  Miley Cyrus  wanted only one icon to grace her stage during  "MTV Unplugged."  So when  Madonna agreed to accompany Miley , no one was more shocked than the 21-year-old pop princess. "I wanted to have someone here that wasn't the obvious and something that was different than just being on my record, something that people wouldn't really expect," she told MTV News about teaming up with the legendary pop star. "And even I didn't expect Madonna to be necessarily down to do something like 'Unplugged' with me. So the fact that she's here, kind of doing this hoedown thing with me now, is unbelievable. I'm so stoked." Miley then broke down how Madonna influenced her own performing style. "I grew up listening to Madonna and a lot of what she represented for me is what I try to rep to girls now, is not being afraid of sexuality and really being who you want to be and doing what you want to do," she said. ...

Madonna's second UK television appearance, on The Tube in Manchester 's Hacienda Club.  January 27 1984, live at Hacienda Club, Manchester, England

So here's Madonna's  first ever appearance on UK TV ! At the time " Top of The Pops " was the  biggest music show on British Television  - braodcasting every Thursday evening on  BBC1 , back when multi-channel TV in the UK was just a dream and pop music videos and performances on the box were quite a treat! Madonna appeared on the show broadcast  Thursday January 26th 1984 , having taped her performance 2 days earlier at the famous  BBC Television Centre  in West London. Accompanied as ever by brother  Christopher  and  Erica Bell , she lip-synched and danced her way through " Holiday " - and here it is from a re-broadcast in 2004.

On January 25, 1989, following eight months of negotiations, Pepsi announced that they had signed Madonna to a year-long endorsement contract, for which they would pay Her Virginness $5 million. In return, Madonna would appear in a series of television commercials and Pepsi would sponsor the singer's next concert tour, tentatively slated for later that year.