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THE VIRGIN TOUR 25th ANNIVERSARY
It's been 25 years since the Virgin Tour kicked into full gear!
I can remember when the Virgin Tour vhs came out.
My parents didn't have a vhs player and refused to get one for quite a few years.
For some reason my parents were against anything new age coming into the house.
They didn't even get cable or central air conditioning until me and my sister moved out!
They are very old school in their thinking.
Anywayz...
I used to go to my cousins house and watch this tour religiously!
He owned it on vhs and eventually made me a bootleg copy.
Since we still didn't own a fucking VCR,
I used to go next door to my neighbors house and watch it on her parents big screen television.
I loved watching it there!
One year for my birthday all I wanted was a real Virgin Tour video of my own.
No more bootleg copy!
I got some cash for my b-day and immediately made a run to the mall up the street and bought it.
We finally got a VCR for Christmas and let me tell you...
I watched this video 800 million times!
I literally drove my parents infuckingsane with it!
What an amazing show this was!
Watching it now brings back so many great Madonna memories.
The magic of this era can never ever be duplicated.
Every record store and every book store in every mall in America had Madonna everything!
Poster..books..magazines..picture discs..buttons..shirts..12" vinyl..etc!
To this day I can remember Camelot Music in Washington Square Mall having a television in their front display window playing the Virgin Tour video when it came out.
She was performing the song "Everybody".
I was in fucking awe!
It's odd the things we remember from positive moments in our lives.
Man I fucking miss those days!
I fucking love Madonna.
She has brought so much joy into my life.
MADONNA FACTS
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry states that Madonna has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide.
She is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century.
In 2008 Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Considered to be one of the most influential women in contemporary music, Madonna has been known for continually reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry.
She is recognized as an influence among numerous music artists.
Madonna embarked on her Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008, which became the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo artist with gross of US $280 million, surpassing the previous record held by her Confessions Tour.
The tour was extended to the 2009, adding new European dates.
The total gross by the end of the whole tour was US$ 408 million.
According to Rolling Stone, Madonna "remains one of the greatest pop acts of all time".
She has been dubbed the "Queen of Pop" and is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time.
Madonna has also received acclaim as a role model for businesswomen in her industry,
"achieving the kind of financial control that women had long fought for within the industry"
generating over $1.2 billion dollars in sales within the first decade of her career.
"The gripes about Madonna — she's cold, greedy, talentless — conceal both bigotry and the essence of her art, which is among the warmest, the most humane, the most profoundly satisfying in all pop culture."
Now with that being said...
All you haters can fucking suck it!
This bitch is a fucking star beyond stars!
INTRODUCTION
What does a rebellious faggot from the Midwest with an obsession for Madonna do when his life becomes full of endless roadblocks with no outlet to express himself or his art?!
He does what Madonna did!
He moves to New York City to begin a whole new life.
Welcome to
ME, MYSELF, and MADONNA.
My thoughts..My words..My life.
Growing up gay in the Midwest was not easy.
Most Midwestern folk are very close minded two faced Republican God fearing Wal-Mart shopping bible thumping jack fuck hypocrites with no sense of reality whatsoever.
I knew I was different.
I always knew that one day I was going to get the fuck out.
And I did.
Madonna kept me sane!
I will always love her for that.
Madonna fan for life mother fuckers!
Welcome to my world.
This is my blog.
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