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Remember When Madonna Stole the First VMAs Debuting 'Like a Virgin'?

Madonna stole the show at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 when she performed ‘Like a Virgin’ for the first time live

MEGAIt’s almost impossible, given everything that came after, to imagine just how controversial Madonna ’s boldly sexual performance at the first MTV Video Music Awards — where she debuted “Like a Virgin” live — was. She’d had success with dance floor hits like “Holiday” and “Lucky Star.” And MTV was a fledgling cable network that just showed relatively primitive music videos, usually just a clip of an artist lip syncing in front of a simple backdrop. Even though the cameras cut away almost instantly, Madonna’s suggestive behavior left no doubt that the performance had moved into explicit (for the time) sexual territory.

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