A year earlier, we had done a Madonna cover called “Into the Groovey,” as a twelve-inch. Madonna was cool in the eighties – her dance pop was minimal and fresh – and we were all fans. She was slightly fleshy in the beginning, and her main talents were pluck, willpower and moving her body around. Her voice wasn’t strong, and she wasn’t an obvious diva, but she had a knack for knowing how to entertain, singing, ‘Like a virgin / Touched for the very first time,” with a heart-shaped pout and beckoning eyes perfect for MTV. Reagan, orange-cheeked, was in office, Nancy, his wife, wore red; and Madonna rocked white like no-one else.
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