25 – and We Love It

It’s almost hard to believe – yet oh-so-easy, after all – but it was 25 years ago on April 24, 1982, that Sire Records honcho Seymour Stein released a single called “Everybody” on Warner Bros. Records by an unknown singer from Rochester, Mich., by the name of Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone.

“To say the world would never be the same is an understatement,” said Madonna’s publicist, Liz Rosenberg, in a press release today.

The song went on to become a huge dance floor hit, and was heard all over the radio in the summer of ’82.

Madonna would go on to become one of the most famous entertainers and cultural icons in history – the undisputed Queen of Pop, no less – selling close to 200 million records, and remaining a star of enormous magnitude and influence for the next 25 years.

And she's just getting started – and for that I say, dance and sing, get up, and do your thing for 25 more years.

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