Happy 30 anniversary to The First Album
30 years ago today, on July 27th 1983, a young and talented girl released her first album on the Sire Records label. The album was selftitled and it contained the music that sterted it all. Madonna, the first album, was primarily recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in New York City and it was produced by Warner Bros producer Reggie Lucas.
The songs contained in the album, that was originally to be called Lucky Star, are only eight and they are pretty extended. The funny thing is that the main hit off “Madonna“, the joyful Holiday was not even included in the original plan, but was a song, written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens of the pop group Pure Energy, that
her boyfriend DJ at the time, John “Jellybean” Benitez, discovered after being turned down by Phyllis Hyman and Mary Wilson, of the The Supremes.
With the global success of Madonna in 1985, this album was repackaged and rereleased as The First Album in Europe and it gave Madonna funs multiple moments of joy thought the years with the melancholic Borderline, the poppy Lucky Star, the sexy Physical Attracion and the ultimate dance anthem Holiday.
In 2008 Entertainment Weekly named Madonna – The First Album as the fifth of Top 100 Best Albums of Past 25 Years.
Today we invite you to put that cd on the player, or load those 8 mp3’s on your phones and relive a magic moment of Madonna history, the one that started it all!
Happy birthday First Album!
