Like a Virgin

Like a Virgin (1984, see 1984 in music) was a hit album and song by Madonna. The album was number one on Billboard Music Chart's pop albums chart and number ten on the hip hop/R&B charts.

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1984 - 1984 in music - Madonna - Billboard Music Chart

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"Like a Virgin" (the song) was Madonna's biggest hit until "Vogue", and her biggest hit of the 1980s. It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, and remained the number-one hit single on the Billboard pop singles charts (U.S.) for six consecutive weeks. "Like a Virgin" and "Material Girl", both from this album, are two of Madonna's most enduring and well-known songs.

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1980s - Billy Steinberg - Tom Kelly

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Madonna has reinvented the song by singing it with different arrangements on her Blond Ambition tour and The Girlie Show. Madonna wears a wedding gown in the music video, which was directed by Mary Lambert.

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Blond Ambition - The Girlie Show - Wedding gown - Music video - Mary Lambert

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The song was the subject of a famous exegesis in the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino's film, Reservoir Dogs. It was also the subject of a parody by "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Like A Surgeon", and was performed by Jim Broadbent in the film Moulin Rouge! (2001) as a comic piece. A version of it, not a parody, was done by the folk singer John Wesley Harding on the album . A rare version of the song was a duet recorded by Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor (the Nine Inch Nails frontman).

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Exegesis - Quentin Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs - Parody - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Jim Broadbent - Film - Moulin Rouge! - 2001 - Folk - John Wesley Harding - Marilyn Manson - Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails

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"Like A Virgin" was honored by Rolling Stone and MTV in 2000 as the fourth song on their list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs".

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Rolling Stone - MTV - 2000

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