Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour chronicled The Virgin Tour as shot at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Records, who decided to release it as a video album. Film director Daniel Kleinman, who presided over the shooting of the tour on video, submitted the footage to Warner Bros. After the tour was over, Madonna started recording her third studio album, True Blue. The tour was a commercial success, with Billboard Boxscore reporting a gross of US $3.3 million. Madonna's first concert tour, The Virgin Tour, promoted her first two studio albums, Madonna and Like a Virgin.
Both videos were nominated for " Best Choreography" at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. The live performances of "Like a Virgin" and "Dress You Up" were released as music videos on MTV to promote the video album. The video was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of 100,000 copies and in September 1986, it received a "Video Software Dealers Award" for the Most Popular Music Video. Madonna wanted to have a proper introduction added before the concert footage and asked director James Foley to shoot one, which portrayed her with her first image makeover, reciting lines related to how she became famous.Īfter its release, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour received mixed reviews from critics, but went on to become a commercial success, topping the Music Video Sales chart of Billboard and becoming the top selling music video cassette of 1986.
Director Daniel Kleinman, who presided over the shooting of the tour on video, submitted the footage to Warner Bros. It was released by Warner Music Video and Sire Records on Novemand contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour is the second video album and the first live release by American singer-songwriter Madonna.
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