1985: The MADONNA Craze | London Plus | Classic Music and Fashion | BBC Archive

[@gallitron7803]

I had to stop my father the second time he accused me of being obsessed with Madonna, I said papa don’t preach.

[@Marcsxx]

💯

[@andrewrocha9766]

Me too, friend, ME TOO!

[@TefiTheWaterGipsy]

I can't believe I didn't see the punchline coming, made me laugh.

[@JacksonSepeda-v7r]

😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

37 years ago! Those girls will be around sixty now. How time flies.

[@Steaks652]

Tell me about it, went like a flash.

[@thecapricorn11]

oh f**k! 😮

[@ajs41]

They could be just 18 or 19, despite looking slightly older than that by today standards.

[@damienjonesmusic]

This is an amazing piece from the time capsule of 1985!

[@andrem5135]

She was even bigger and entirely better a decade later. 1995 was when she performed 'Bedtime Story' at the Brits, released 'You'll See' as a single and had a campaign with Versace.

[@kevinlongman007]

@carruthers100 The height of her popularity was in 1990 when 'Vogue' and 'The Immaculate Collection' were released.

[@soundseeker63]

Her image became classier and her records became more intelligent in the 90s (Ray Of Light is her best work IMO), but sales and popularity wise the 80s was her peak. She dominated the decade.

[@Peter1999Videos]

No way , Madonna´s peak it was 1985-1990

[@MartinSmith156]

​@@Peter1999Videosmaybe in the US but not worldwide, 1996-2006 was her second golden era, massive selling albums, record breaking tours, Grammy's and Brits for the first time in her career, critical acclaim etc

[@iamtnarea1503]

The Irish blonde girl looked more like Madonna than the winner of the Madonna lookalike competition!

[@fullup91]

The blonde looked more like Cindy Lauper

[@sarahlouise7163]

i don’t know exactly how old the girls are that were interviewed, but they strike me as rather more erudite than your average modern equivalent

[@Alusnovalotus]

The announcer clutching his pearls. Wonder how he feels now that she’s an established icon and he called her a tramp?

[@jaymac7203]

Have you seen that latest picture of her where she looks like Marilyn Manson? 😭🤢🤮😭 lol

[@areyouserious3092]

@@jaymac7203 I know lol what a state she is now.

[@wildkeith]

One thing is for sure, I’ve never heard of the announcer. Her legacy is being the Queen of pop, his is calling her a Tramp in KZbin archival footage. Pathetic.

[@amack9771]

@@wildkeith he didnt call her a tramp he said she made a fortune by dressing like your everyday homeless person at the time as the aim back then was to displease the general public and parents in rebellion

[@carlosnavarro1091]

Actually he said she looked like a tramp.

[@rockyspears]

0:49 I just couldn't let that slide!!

[@mogznwaz]

I was 13 in 1984 and thought Madonna was great. Loved the music, the style and the sass

[@mogznwaz]

Talk to youngsters now and they think women in the 80s were oppressed voiceless and stuck at home LOL WE WEREN’T. We were raised in a post feminist era but we weren’t as entitled or as dumb as a kids now. We still had manners at the least.

[@serinadelmar6012]

The irony, never met a punk? 😂

[@duckhive]

LUCKY STAR is my favourite song of hers

[@raggedbreath]

I wonder what the reporter thinks of his work these days? Such reductive reporting!

[@fridaylavender]

This is absolutely hilarious and Mandy is an icon.

[@runoflife87]

An icon of what, bad taste?

[@royaldesign1984]

"She knows what she wants - I don't" Incredibly sexist reporting - you can see why Madonna caught the popular imagination of young women when that was the prevailing attitude at the time

[@DeuDeoEgo]

You can imagine how hard it was for Madonna! She made it on her own!

[@hilaryepstein6013]

In the words of another 80s music fashion icon those girls just wanted to have fun and make a statement with their clothes and its been that way since the mini skirt. (Do newsagents still have a "top shelf").

[@garryleeks4848]

Wouldn’t know 🙄🙄

[@jaymac7203]

Madonna was beautiful 😍 Although she now looks like Marilyn Manson! 😭 lol

[@sharonwhiteman6874]

The misogynistic condescension of the interviewer made my eyes roll off into the sunset

[@zeddeka]

Welcome to the 1980s. Last century, almost half a century ago, and with social views to match. People were a lot more unpleasant and intolerant back then in so many ways.

[@areyouserious3092]

Be quiet women.

[@DG-EditsYT]

Get over it, it happened then and thats how it was

[@BozeDoesGodsWork]

@@DG-EditsYT🤡

[@MarcosVinicius-xm6rx]

40 years ago and she still relevant and the only one QUEEN OF POP!

[@susiefairfield7218]

Oh yeah..the hot pink and orange neon colors and electric blues..the big spangley jewelry and the Hair! Omg after phys ed..the hour spent in the locker room mirrors..ratting it up..curling the bangs down and loads of hairspray. I even got suckered into the curled cuffs and string belt and leather dance shoes of some ridiculous color LOL

[@garryleeks4848]

Same here 🙄🙄🙄

[@pressureworks]

Mandy couldn't find a pat benatar look alike contest and accidentally happened upon a maddy contest.

[@davedogge2280]

I put Mandy forward for a 80s Linda Lusardi contest and was strangely shouted out of the room by a group of women with pink and blue hair with nose rings.

[@pressureworks]

@@davedogge2280 wasn't aware of LL, and after seeing some pictures our Mandy should've won !!!

[@DeuDeoEgo]

The reporting is a tad mysoginistic! Calling her a 'tramp'? It must have been quite hard for Madonna to make it on her own back in the 80s.

[@saltynutzz]

He called madonna a tramp 😂

[@vah1761]

She IS! 🤮

[@READYTEDDYBEAR]

Please tell me Laura Hardy's middle name is Anne!

[@chriswinwood6501]

What an amazing piece of film

[@squeezybob84]

And 40 years later Madonna is crazy.

[@garryleeks4848]

And still thinks she’s 20

[@vah1761]

She's worse than crazy 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@garryleeks4848]

@@vah1761 and still thinks she’s 20

[@kevinlongman007]

And very rich

[@garryleeks4848]

@@kevinlongman007 very rich

[@fraaijen]

Queen of pop

[@areyouserious3092]

Qeen of slop more like.

[@twold4this]

*Teeny-Boppers* oh joy, hearing that again! TEENY-BOPPER!!! 😁

[@bar-ok1zd]

I'd love to see the women interviewed now, i wonder if they still like Madonna?

[@AtheistOrphan]

They’d be in their early sixties now. Would be interesting to catch-up with them.

[@Weeflowerofscotland]

Ah I was only 9 and loved Madonna and the look. 😂

[@duane_313]

Great video! These girls seem to be having fun. But they don’t really look as good as the Madonna wannabes I seen on American news clips. 😅 they don’t have the lock nailed down at all but they got the energy!

[@DeuDeoEgo]

The reporting is a tad mysoginistic! It must have been quite hard for Madonna to make it on her own back in the 80s.

[@kingjun73]

진짜 마돈나가 대단하긴 했구나 요즘 데일러 스위프트로 난리지만 문화 및 여성 해방에 엄청난 영향력을 끼친건 역시나 마돈나지

[@John-cm3jp]

MICHAEL JACKSON & MADONNA KING & QUEEN OF POP 🥰💖🥰👍👍

[@TheDjcarlos67]

The King of pop really really loved kids didn't he?

[@garryleeks4848]

Elvis was king

[@JapatiYTP]

@@TheDjcarlos67 yep the nonce

[@JapatiYTP]

@@garryleeks4848 yeah

[@garryleeks4848]

@@JapatiYTP yeah

[@SitScared1]

I hope some of these people recognise themselves (or they're now someone's mum!) and leave a comment here. I'd love to know just how hard they cringe, looking back! 🤣

[@11UncleBooker22]

Show-Business, that's all.

[@READYTEDDYBEAR]

0:53 this is what Madonna looks like in 2022. 👍

[@gerardjames9971]

Mandy and her two Irish friends Bridget and Nuala

[@realmccoy18]

the misogyny is off the charts.

[@jaymac7203]

TV used to be way better in the eighties lol

[@AtheistOrphan]

Everything seemed better in the eighties!

[@stefjonno1]

Really lol. Dynasty Dallas Emerdale ...Sopranos 24 Breaking bad. Na Tv has evolved for the better. Unlike music.

[@onlinefriend3889]

@@AtheistOrphanThatcher, the troubles, miners strike, divorce pressures, homophobia, racism etc would say otherwise

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@onlinefriend3889 - True. I suppose at the time I was viewing it through the rose-tinted glasses of youth. 😎

[@Jumpmaster337]

Wish it was 1985 now...

[@DM-kv9kj]

I'd much rather go back to 1995 myself. The 80s under Thatcher were horrendous, and give it the extra 10 years and you have all the good movies and music that came in the 80s plus a lot more!

[@Dr170]

Will you settle for 1984?

[@petergivenbless900]

The saddest Madonna wannabe today is Madonna herself!

[@JB-pl1iu]

The one on a current sold out tour earning 100s of millions? Have a seat.

[@petergivenbless900]

@@JB-pl1iu *wheelchair

[@trevorrandom]

Wonder if these girls looks like Madonna now?

[@Laura-sg6ss]

"Tramp" 💀madting

[@thecapricorn11]

saw madonna in madrid in 1991 it was all downhill after that (in my opinion)

[@LSD77777]

This was the beginning of the end

[@pressureworks]

Teens same age today... who's madonna ? Was she a spice girl ? Who are the spice girls?

[@garryleeks4848]

Google it 😂

[@Laura-sg6ss]

... please...

[@pressureworks]

@@garryleeks4848 what is this Google ????

[@garryleeks4848]

@@pressureworks 😂😂😂

[@DM-kv9kj]

Literally everyone knows who Madonna is... I think you're inventing ideas in your head to fit some pre-programmed template of how you think everything is all the time.

[@garryleeks4848]

Was never in the madonna craze , she had a few good hits , never newwww she was on the top shelf, uuuuuuuuu matron

[@Chris_34]

These girls looked just like Madonna🥰. If you bought Madonna off of Wish that is😒

[@PorkChopExpress86]

What a complete virgin 🤣👆

[@elijahmodnar1]

PAXMAN DEFO WROTE TO THE HYPODROME COMPLAINING THAT THEIR LOOK ALIKE DIDNT LAST THAT LONG WITH A TWOSUP WITH FRANK BOUGH :P

[@RickP2012]

The BBC seemed more fun then.

[@Tnenamrep2]

I wonder what these girls are up to today?

[@tallontedvideoandtechsolutions]

A few Irish in there.

[@fidelisfaber4961]

That's a disappointingly frivolous take on a serious matter for Paxo. He should have been talking about how the fashion, cosmetics and music industries, Hollywood, pharmaceutical companies and abortion providers were all making fat profits out of these girls' insecurities.

[@DM-kv9kj]

Would be a bit rich coming from an angry, aggressive journalist with his own insecurities and egotistic issues. Getting proper sick of the sheer number of utterly flawed human beings trying to make themselves feel big, clever and better than others by belittling and punching down.

[@wildkeith]

Haha calm down man. It was music trend not a conspiracy. Open a window and get some fresh air.

[@kcam3683]

@@wildkeith 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kcam3683]

@@DM-kv9kj 👍🏻

[@RA-lb3lx]

“She’s got everything” 😂 yeah right

[@DMAN-ey1nb]

It’s odd to be so obsessed with someone.

[@baldheadkid]

Wow! Mandy was hot! You're almost 60 now .. Hope you're still living the dream babe!

[@mariiarg3271]

❣️

[@robertlloyd122]

Ms. Magazine's "teeny readers" - JFC.

[@JB-pl1iu]

I worship Madonna. I was in diapers at this time.

[@johnk1639]

Such pitiful prizes 😂

[@phillipecook3227]

Appropriate for the morning Bingo session in the local nursing home. Welcome to the 80s.

[@davedogge2280]

What a modern role model for women :P

[@valeriataylor8337]

indeed. women felt free to be themselves, have a voice and be free from boring and restraining traditionalism about our bodies and clothes. Thank you, Madonna!

[@areyouserious3092]

@@valeriataylor8337 Stop talking woman.

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

She taught women how to be inappropriate and ugly. No class and still as a senior citizen she acts the same no shame form this woman

[@hansbambach4854]

2022 we no longer know what a woman is...just think about that.

[@BozeDoesGodsWork]

Cry about it 🤡

[@danpreston564]

So judgemental.

[@areyouserious3092]

And still making people cringe to this day (See Twitter).

[@djbethell]

Lookalikes??? 🤦‍♂️

[@markparfett5380]

I loved her back then but certainly don’t care for her now. To still be seeking attention the way she does and behaving like a granny tart is cringy.

[@BuckRolly1]

1:01 Even in 1985 the women were good complainers🤣😂