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  • Great video!

  • What rags on her head?

  • @yyttroll with a name like troll you don't know fashion u creep shut the f up and go back in your lifeless hole! thx loveugodbless tj kabbalah matthewshepard madonnalicious

  • @yyttroll it's not fashion, it's rags

  • Incredibly rare, incredibly good. Thanx so much for sharing. One of my favorite clips of her now.

  • She is like a sexy snake hypnotizing the audience. WOW WOW WOW

  • she looks better now

  • If I didn't know who she is I would say that she shows great promise, wonderful coordination and an infectious energy. Madonna's did that and then some throughout her career.

  • I love Madonna and Cyndi

  • her best single and the first its a pity nobody remember that one!

  • God I love her. Unique, talented, beautiful, intelligent and someone like no one had ever seen!

  • How PERFECT is this!!! AN ICON IN THE MAKING!!! Love it.

  • who would just say this girl with some dollars going to new york to look for her dream would just rule the world of pop music as one of (if not) the most successful female artists of all times?...This is Madonna Louise Veronica Ciconne...

  • she was just a baby here!

  • She really reminds me of Cyndi Lauper in this .... I love'em both, so it's just cool to see how they both evolved so differently.

  • It is amazing that you've shared this video of Madonna's early years in the New York's clubbing scene. I wish I was living in NYC on those years. I was only 13 (1983) when Madonna came out and started to be famous and recognized in the music and clubbing scene. Good for you, and thanks for sharing. Madonna is a true star! she started from scratch and worked so hard in the early 80's, she deserve to be where she is right now, the number one, The Queen of Pop.

  • she found her way out of new york average situation.

    look at her today... born star.

  • Lip Sync' already... early.. Am I missing something?

  • @jrregan Yeah. You're missing your "do research" thing. MANY did playback then...... *rolling eyes*

  • great great video!! the beginning and already successfull now we understand her work and strong will and natural success!!

    by the way it's clear now, seeing this, that she had a really good nose job after that,

    Madonna the best for-ever!!

  • Holy cow, I was there for this one. Somewhere in the back of the Roxy when she came on :) Its amazing to see this on video again!

  • Was the Roxy a major club and who else performed there?

  • @rangerdave1973 It was a huge club in NYC, 10th ave and 18th street. Became 1018 later.. but when it was the roxy it was sort of roller disco and then a club later.

  • she's a hot mess. thanks for posting

  • @robertmarc1 She turned her hot mess into gold!

  • @robertmarc1 with emphasis on hot

  • I've got to say "I'm impressed!" MADONNA just put on quite a show. =)

  • July 1983

  • 1st album still one of my favourites: simple fun synth, great beats, nearly every track a killer.

  • Never saw this clip before. She looks like she got here fresh out a Malawian village. lol ♥

  • Look at Mr. Ciccone's young daughter commanding everybody to dance in the NYC nightlife, LOL. He was probably home in Michigan clueless of his seed building her nuclear fame bomb that she was about to throw on the world & these club goers had no clue that the little tart on stage would be one of the most prolific entertainers this world has ever seen. She sounds,dances, looks & is even her figure is that of a black girl here & her personal style is so remarkable.

  • That is a piece of rare footage . Never seen it before. Wonderful !

  • @dsampa68

    Me either!

  • cute outfit!

  • Even at this early stage, she's a supestar. An amazing performer.

  • Live for her!!!

  • Ughhh what I would do to live that moment!

  • That is so great that someone actually had this footage!NO way,to cool!

  • I love this clip! Wish i could go back in time to 82, go to the roxy on that night and tell Madonna some things... :)

  • This is great too bad the audio is not so good. Thanks for posting.

  • DANCE MUSIC of MADONNA LIVE by PIANO TEACHER !

  • can you believe that we just to watch this quality level of video footage???? it looks like crap.

  • @FmTutorials It gives it a more authetic appeal, fuck your "crap", appreciate ffs!!!!

  • I like her holocaust chic....

  • @PirateSkip4 You have my deepest condolences that Tiffany's career tanked, but you need to let go of the past and move beyond your bitter existence. Keep well. :)

  • @PirateSkip4 Stick to your metrosexual kitsch

  • this is July 1983

  • This was 1978!!!

  • @BiggDaddyGregory

    dis is not 1978 pal! lol 80's!

  • @BiggDaddyGregory no this is 1983

  • ME ENCANTA MADONNA, creo que madonna dio palo con esta cancion como dos años tratando de buscar notoriedad y si no hubiera hecho el album madonna dpornto no hubiera pasado de esta cancion pero eso demuestra que es una artsta persistente y muy talentosa la mayoria es un "one hit Wonder" precisamente porque no saben atacar mas alla de su golpe de fama...Bravo lady gaga eres la proxima madonna ver esta presentacion me ha pensar en lady gaga no se porque jaja

  • wow fantastic classic stuff

  • WILD!

  • The Best of the best! Was over there seeing this! thanks!

  • wow this is fabulous, i love the lace and crucifixes image the best, its sooo 80s and colourful/over the top, she kinda took over were boy george took off, with such a strong image like this !!! think it was the brother christopher who persuaded her to get rid of this image, he was probably soo jeleous of all the sexy guys hitting on her!!! i wish she would release the virgin tour on dvd, with the missing songs not on the video, angel, burning up and borderline, would be fab to see !!!

  • this video is like gold!!!

  • This is my favorite era of Madonna!

    I have this album on vinyl,

    and I'm selling it if anyone is interested.

  • If u hate Madonna so much, then were you looking it up on youtube dumbass?

  • @PirateSkip4 Oh, but what was the movie she won the Golden Globe for? Better yet, since when was Madonna (who, for being a hag and a skank and a whore, is still better than you) primarily an actress anyway?

  • @PirateSkip4 You sound like a nutter

  • i know hu pelpee are so stuped!

  • this was a showcase that she performed tor her manager.

  • @braziliano77 Learn English first ?

  • This was 1982 . why do most people count her start in the music industry as in 1985?

  • was this her first song ??

  • Don't think it was her first song,i'm near sure it was "Get Up"

  • The taller, thinner male dancer is her brother Christopher.

  • michael was the king madonna is the queen!!!!

  • love u madonna...

  • madonna is the best

  • madonna's idol growing up was joni mitchell.

  • No it wasn't she admired Marilyn Monroe.

  • haha yeah she did admire marilyn but for music idols she liked joni mitchell you need to read more madonna books or you would know this.

  • I've actually read pretty much every Madonna book. I studied her for a famous persons class I took. She admired a lot of people but she said none had as much influence on her as when she saw her first Marilyn Monroe movie. She does kind of sound like Joni in parts but she's really one of a kind.

  • looks like you havent read all the books about her or you would know this fact since marilyn isnt a musical influence and madonna had musical influences as well and joni mitchell was one of them even though i hate joni mitchells music.

  • you mean blondy and maryilyn monroe

  • ok the summer before madonna broke there was cyndi lauper no shade but you must be follow pop Madonna was urban radio before anybody even thought about Cyndi Lauper I like them both they broke at exactly the same time Cyndi became more popular on pop radio first.

  • The summer before Madonna broke out Cydi Lauper ruled the world....give her the respect she deserves. They both are great in their own right. Obviously we all enjoy Madonna or we would'nt have found ourselves here.

  • Whens the last time you heard a NEW Cyndi Lauper song on the radio though? No one, aside from Cher and MJ has lasted as long as Madonna has. Kudos to her.

  • True, but we can't compare Madonna to anyone because if she keeps going at this rate she'll be better than everyone. There was a song called "Can't stop" and when I heard it back in 1987 I knew she was in it for the long haul--it was like"over and over" and all of the other songs which had an underlying tone of not giving up and not caring what others thought. Cyndi is a mere mortal with a real life time line...Madonna just doesn't see her mortality she wants to go on and on forever. She Will!

  • init i agree

  • Cyndi Lauper made good music. Madonna still makes good music. I can prefer Madonna over Cyndi, it's my choice. Personally I don't care who she did, what she did, I still respect who she is and if you say she didn't work hard to get where she was... this is a woman who at the age of 18 was eating out of Mcdonalds dumpsters and now has an estimated fortune of 360 million plus. She was married to Guy for a long time, almost ten years, and being married has nothing to do with being good.

  • kraaaasssss, kannte ich noch ja nich--bin begeistert!

    yeaaaah

  • WRONG madonna is cute cyndi is not. cyndi is a mental retard living in a fantasy world. madonna is a real woman with real style! who the hell  wants to walk around dressed in a grandma dress, green lipstick, and orange hair anyways?

  • WTF?...Madonna is the fucking queen of pop and that bitch cyndi is nobody:=)));)

  • hey...madonna and cyndi are both great! dont dis cyndi's style...

  • i agree with you

  • thank you oxoxoxoxoxoxox

  • rightttttttttttttttttttttttttt­ttttttttttttt

  • It's pretty amazing what she's been able to accomplish through sheer will, hard work and of course talent.

  • I love see this video in the same time that I am reading the book of Lucy O'Brien! Thanks!

  • she looks nothing like cyndi lauper

  • @bg11215

    she does a little bit in dis vid,hair colo,rags,junk braclets...

  • amasing

    we realey all the same

    what a wonderful historical video

    what a big opertunity this was

    why yal making fun of the quality

    think your celphone beats a tipical video camera of the early 80´s

    get the hel out of here

  • AMEN

  • whos that girl

  • I liked the Park Chase club. Madonna was there in July 1982 for Duran Duran. New Peppermint Lounge was groovy too.

  • WHY are there so many haters leaving comments, if you hate madonna , don't watch the video..myself and others cherish this woman...live it alone...it really shows how small you are....

  • estos ahora son cultos imaginen que en ese año tenia trea años ni idea de ella jejejejej

  • I went to roxy it was a great club but the fun house was better when jellybean was the dj and madonna was starting.

  • Are you dumb?...Its old JACKASS!!

  • you're so stupid you're useless

  • this is in the beginning of 1983 not 1982

  • First steps from madonna ,A Great starts

  • Jesus, Madonna probably was only 23 or 24 here! So fucking young. It's so weird seeing her at the beggining of her career.

  • think she is 21 here.

  • Nope, she was born in 1958 and it's 1982, so she has to be either 23, or 24!

  • oh sorry, lol. i didnt even notice the fact that this vid stated the year. Just ignore little old me.

  • MyHG, wtf are you on you freak? Thompson Twins? lmfao! They were some of the WORST the 80s had to offer. And let's just say their music hasn't aged well at all. Presumably you're an American. "Hold Me Now" is about the only decent TT record. I bet you like Howard Jones as well. And if you hate Madge so much, why are you scouring youtube obsessively for every rare old video of her. And if you recall, Madge and that hasbeen with the big hair from TT were friends and she backed them on live aid.

  • Hazeyeyes, this whole banter started with me saying she is biting Thompson Twins style here. She copied BoyGeorge and other Brits back then but got credit for things she didn't start...Thats all I was saying. Thompson Twins aren't insatiable for attention & money, Madonna is, thats why she needs to stay afloat and do childrens books. Targeting children will keep her in the limelight a little longer, but she's no Harry Potter writer...

  • She's going to be 51.....

  • Who bloody cares

  • This video is a treasure...

  • Here she is also copying Boy George's moves and clothes. She always copied everyone, nothing original. but she still wants to keep proving herself cause she remembers all the criticisms. I guess it all has to do with love, wanting to be connected, wanting to be accepted by all. A void that needs to be filled, but the void is incredibly HUGE! Theres got to be a cure!

  • Her she is also copying Boy George's moves and clothes. She always copied everyone, nothing original. but she still wants to keep rpoving herself cause she remembers all the criticisms. I guess it all has to do with love, wanting to be connected, wanting to be accepted by all. A void that needs to be filled, but the void is incredibly HUGE! Theres got to be a cure!

  • Here she's copy-ing the moves of Alannah Currie of "The Thompson Twins", look them up on youtube...They were great writers, ^ played alot of instruments, highly talented. Madonna was a wannabe girl from Detroit who found a way to con Seymour Stein into signing her crap material back then & the public bought the BS. Whether sex sells, bleach sells or just hypnotizing your audience, I dunno, all I know is I was dumbfounded when they signed her, when there was amazing stuff coming out of England!

  • Here she's copy-ing the moves of Alannah Currie of "The Thompson Twins", look them up on youtube...They were great writers, ^ played alot of instruments, highly talented. Madonna was a wannabe girl from Detroit who found a way to con Seymour Stein into signing her crap material back then & the public bought the BS. Whether sex sells, bleavh sells or just hypnotizing your audience, I dunno, all I know is I was dumbfounded when they signed her, when there was amazing stuff coming out of England!

  • oh and another thing,you seem to know so much that is not fact!!maripol was madonnas friend in her new york days,look that up on any search engine or any biography about madonna,she wore the bracelets as publicity for maripol!!ive noticed you slate madonna on a lot of songs on you tube so if you hate her so much why you looking up her songs and so bothered about her?they signed madonna cos she was different,edgy,daring and different and worked dammed hard for 5 years in nyc to get where she is

  • Madonnafever, I bet your friends can't stand listening to you about her anymore, I bet they say you would stalk her too...U have it all worng again. Maripol came first, someone introduced Madonna to Maripol cause she wanted to wear the bracelets that everyone in NY was wearing, Maripol gave Madonna bracelets for free so that she would popularize them, they were already popular. Madonna followed NY's trends. Maripol gor recognition cause Madonna wore them everywhere. I know Maripol too...

  • WTF IS MARIPOL?

  • She was this bangle jewelry designer that gave Madonna all those black rubber bangles to wear in the 80's. All of Manhattan kids wore them and Madonna tried to take credit for them by acting as if she started the craze, but it was all over Manhattan by Maripol, the designer. They are friends now...

  • Stupid child, Maripol didn't create the Punk look. Madonna didn't either. And none of them ever tried to take credit for it. The thing is: that dirty punk look was not popular among good girls on their suburbian households. Madonna made it popular, and middle class parents panicked because all their girls wanted to be like Madonna. She indeed started the craze for that look. I love the way you say it "I worked with her 4 times", hahaha. Washing her clothes?

  • Madonna never followed NY trends. Actually, that's why Madonna was already famous in the NY club scene: her look was different. She was a star among the NY clubbers before becoming "Madonna": she was a blend of Punk with Street style.

  • @bhindex People- we had style cuz we HAD NO MONEY! We MADE our clothes out of stuff we scrounged or bought at salvation army..if u wanted sneakers with cool designs on them>? You drew on them yourself....I took my moms 1950's clothes and made them into something different yet cool. M did the same..

  • @debbiechickie5 I hope you had read my two-part comment. Otherwise, your reply just sounds unecessary.

  • @bhindex ...thanks for being Reply Police! (skipping happily away from grumpy people..)

  • @debbiechickie5 Oh, you're very welcome, hon! (skipping happily with a sarcastic smile on my face).

  • @bhindex it's true! i was 15 years old in 1981 and i was there...Danceteria, The Roxy, The Mud Club. I remember her. You couldn't miss her. 100% original. Just awesome!

  • @siriuslili did you remember the crowd reaction to her? like what did u feel from the people around you?

  • @gogoutube she was just another local performer on the very small NY downtown scene. she was great, people loved it but no one dreamed she would shoot to stardom the way she did. it was all totally underground then.

  • Even her husband Guy Ritchie tells her she's full of crap alot!!!

  • So, many people are, sometime or the other...

  • Sorry, but Thompson Twins didn't reach Madonna, although they had some "nice" tunes, Madonna had more fire and flair.

  • Thompson Twins wrote their own creative music from the start, Madonna lip synced and sang others songs and then after being mocked, she finally wrote Starlight Starbright, first star I see tonight, then collaborated on others. Thompson Twins had their fun and packed it away. Madonna is either hungry for money or attention, she doesn't want to be a has been, but by targeting children books will help the younger kids know her a little, but not like Harry Potter writer.....

  • While YOU try to mock her for her writing skills ("she's no Harry Potter writer"), remember: Madonna's a songwriter, and as a songwriter, she wrote part of the most important Pop songs in music history. Her children's books were just a way of raising money for charity (criticize her for that too). And no matter if she's hungry for attention or money, she made it all herself, out of nothing, and never criticising other people's work. What about you? Have you done anything with your life?

  • good one! i like that!

  • She is just copying all the moves of Alannah Currie here & Boy George, she copied everything in New York too, she was not considered original at all, but somehow she fooled alot...

  • madonna lip synced other people's songs? what are you talking about? she was never mocked - and she wrote lucky star before she was ever famous. whether you want to give madonna credit she has earned or not, she is a self made superstar-and to call her unoriginal is simply untrue. and to assume that she has spent over 25 YEARS on top by "fooling people" is just as absurd. you can fool people for a long time-but after 37 top ten hits in the US and 60 in the UK-the only fool here is you. sorry.

  • Yes, some people can fool alot of the people, thats why Harvard did a study on Marketing & Madonna, she took your money fast on stupid songs as amatuerish as "StarLight Starbright, first star I see tonight what U do 2 me baby", so elementary. I am not into Thompson Twins now, I was pointing out she copied everyone & I mean everyone, she did every Grafitti Artist in Manhattan so that she could hang out with them, I know one of the artists, he said she was so easy. She'd so anything 4 attention.

  • are you serious myhollandgrl? your only picking things you see as "cheesy" from her first album in '82. To be so general as to call ALL her songs amateurish is to ignore: Live to Tell, Like a Prayer, Oh Father, This Used to be My Playground, Frozen, & the list goes on. Madonna did not FOOL people out of their money with nothing to back it up with. As I said, she has broken record after record with 60 top ten hits in the UK-and if u need proof of her TRUE talent-see her live-then get back to me

  • Everything every artist has ever done has stemmed from inspiration from another artist. Entire originality doesn't exist. Even Kate Bush has elements of other artists in her music and performance. If Madonna was all about the money, which is the most retarded thing I've ever heard, she wouldnt have invested millions into saving the children of Malawi. And for the record, Madonna never performed others songs. And she didnt write lucky star either. Get your info right before you preach your gospel

  • amedeo - she actually did write 'lucky star,' along with all the majority of the tracks off that first cd. and as i'm sure you know, she's also co-written nearly ALL of songs. what i can't believe is how the poster you are replying to is pointing to songs from 1982 and calling her cheesy - as if the woman who has remained on top for 25 plus years is a complete hack. as if.

  • myhollandgrl, she is no more mocked than anyone else in hollywood. and please spare me your opinion of her that you BELIEVE she only adopted a child from africa because angelina did it first. that is the most ridiculous nonsense i have ever heard. i can't even carry on this point with you any further because it is just to absurd for me to counter. if you choose to believe such idiocy and judge a woman you have never even spoken to - that's your prerogative and good luck to you.

  • You seem very stupid and amateur. Madonna copying everyone? Madonna is known as the Mother of Invention and Re-Invention by the media. As you mentioned, there are many academic studies on Madonna, but not on a negative way (as you tried to sound); Madonna has been studied for her uniqueness, no one in MUSIC as a solo artist has ever gone so far, especially coming from the underground scene and then becoming the Queen of Pop music.

  • No Madonna has said repeatedly. That is the style that she and her girlfriend's in New York were all wearing at the time. She never said she invented it. Her career just took off while she was wearing it.  Debi Mazur was one of her friends back then too.

  • yeah give her a break you saddo,this message is to hollandgirl,at the end of the day where are the thomson twins now then???have they sold over 200 million albums worlwide and a legend like she is,she never copied anyones style either part of her fame was her unseen rareness and unique attitude to everything

  • The Thompson Twins and others do not need anymore attention or money, Madonna is insatiable. She knows alot of people have criticized her, so she constantly wants to prove she has talent, so she constantly pushes to put herself out there. It stime for her to be a Mom & the need to strut her ass around! Its embarrassing for a 52 yr. old to keep needing attention. Debi Mazur is one of her friends still & they both wore the bracelets that Maripol made. Soooo!

  • if madonna wasnt talented she wouldnt be around 26 years on would she,it speaks for itself and for your information when slagging people off get your facts right,MADONNA IS 49 NOT 52 SHE TURNS 50 IN AUGUST 16TH THIS YEAR!!and who made the rules that 49 year olds cant strut there stuff how stereotypical and judgemental and shallow minded can people get.madonna is a good mum she has often stated that she wants to be remembered for being a good mother not a singer!

  • I don't hate Madonna, do U hear me saying that? I hate no one, maybe Taliban! I'm not looking up her songs, I am not so into her songs, I like to hear interviews & comment on what others say that do not know alot about her. I know alot, big wow!!! I worked with her 4 times, I know alot of her Producers/friends, thats how it is in NY, everyone knows everyone in the same circles. So just because I do not agree w/alot she has done, doesn't mean I don't like her. I just think she is full of it alot.

  • Yet she made some great tunes in her time.

    And, omg, how can you be criticising when you only (or mainly) have shit favourited that comes nowhere close in personality or style ?

    Pleeeeeeease...

  • Adeliziax, I didn't favorite that stuff, only one. My co-workers use this site and name...Most should be deleted...

  • of course madonna has talent she wouldnt be around 26 years on with over 260 million albums sold to date and its not allabout sex sells,she aint done the sex image thing for years and is still successful.get your facts right she turns 50 this year not 52.and yeah madonna is insatiable,we want more all the time and the public never get bored of her,they got bored of the thompson twins.and youre into fashion are you,im friends with the designer francisco medvog and he loves her 80s style,ask him!

  • I grew in the 80's.I always thought Madonna had that special something about her.She was my favorite.Back then everyone was always putting her down saying she will not last even other artists such as Cyndi Lauper and Boy George but she still has it going on. She keeps me going and i'm looking forward to her new album coming out.She did not copy Alannah from the Thompson Twins.They were both out around the same time and I can't believe there are still haters out there.Give it up already.

  • Way to go, DJPaulV!!!!...Tell that bitter bitch all that she deserves!!!

  • Here she's copy-ing the moves of Alannah Currie of "The Thompson Twins", look them up on youtube...They were great writers, ^ played alot of instruments, highly talented. Madonna was a wannabe girl from Detroit who found a way to con Seymour Stein into signing her crap material back then & the public bought the BS. Whether sex sells, bleavh sells or just hypnotizing your audience, I dunno, all I know is I was dumbfounded when they signed her, there was amazing stuff out there from England!

  • No one biting on your demo, MyHollandGirl? Can't get a record deal? So sorry. Clearly, somebody out there has enjoyed all her "crap material" for the past 26 years. Yeah, no one else back in the early 80's ever copied each other's fashion - only Madonna did that. And being the most original doesn't always eqaul being the most enjoyable...DUH

  • Sorry DJPaul, I'm not into music, I'm into fashion though...So no need for a record deal, but I do admire original people, Madonna copied everyone...

  • how can madonna have copied everyone,people started copying her look when she came on the scene if it was already around then why had the public never cottoned on to it before??and what moves is she copying here she just seems to me to be interacting with the audience and swaying around on stage??whare are these so called copied moves shes doing??and as for boy bloody george where is he now?cleaning the streets of new york for drug abuse hey yeah how original and what a good role model he is hey

  • "The Thompson Twins...They were great writers, played alot of instruments, highly talented."

    Perhaps talented with musical instruments, but have you ever heard Tom Bailey sing a song on key? Even in studio recordings the guy was always off key when singing. Today they'd use ProTools to clean that up, but its very obvious he can't sing. Like you said, "look them up on youtube" to see what I mean!

    Madonna isn't the greatest singer either (her words!) but she is one hell of an entertainer.

  • She looks like a real amateur here.

  • So what. She was just learning her craft back then. Give her a break.

  • She looks like a real mateur here, she doesn't know what she is doing here.