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

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

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"Nice boy" Mike Donkin bravely ventures into the wild world of the London Hippodrome, to report on the latest pop craze. Young women across the UK are copying the distinctive style of US pop sensation, Madonna. Mike speaks to Laura Hardy - the Fashion Editor at Mizz magazine - about the Madonna 'look' and interviews some of the contestants at a Madonna lookalike contest.
What is it about Madonna that appeals to these women, and is she a good role model?
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@gallitron7803 Жыл бұрын

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

@Marcsxx Жыл бұрын

💯

@andrewrocha9766 7 ай бұрын

Me too, friend, ME TOO!

@Tefisheep 5 ай бұрын

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

@AtheistOrphan Жыл бұрын

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

@steaks652 Жыл бұрын

Tell me about it, went like a flash.

@thecapricorn11 Жыл бұрын

oh f**k! 😮

@ajs41 9 ай бұрын

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

@damienjonesmusic 7 ай бұрын

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

@iamtnarea1503 Жыл бұрын

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

@fullup91 3 ай бұрын

The blonde looked more like Cindy Lauper

@andrem5135 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@soundseeker63 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@MartinSmith156 4 ай бұрын

@@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

@sarahlouise7163 Жыл бұрын

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

@mogznwaz Жыл бұрын

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

@duckhive Жыл бұрын

LUCKY STAR is my favourite song of hers

@rockyspears Ай бұрын

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

@Alusnovalotus Жыл бұрын

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

@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын

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

@areyouserious3092 Жыл бұрын

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

@wildkeith Жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq archival footage. Pathetic.

@amack9771 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

Actually he said she looked like a tramp.

@raggedbreath Жыл бұрын

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

@fridaylavender Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely hilarious and Mandy is an icon.

@runoflife87 Жыл бұрын

An icon of what, bad taste?

@hilaryepstein6013 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t know 🙄🙄

@susiefairfield7218 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Same here 🙄🙄🙄

@twold4this Жыл бұрын

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

@chriswinwood6501 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing piece of film

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

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

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@duane_313 Жыл бұрын

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!

@mogznwaz Жыл бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

The irony, never met a punk? 😂

@bar-ok1zd Жыл бұрын

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

@AtheistOrphan Жыл бұрын

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

@fraaijen Жыл бұрын

Queen of pop

@areyouserious3092 Жыл бұрын

Qeen of slop more like.

@satlynutz Жыл бұрын

He called madonna a tramp 😂

@vah1761 Жыл бұрын

She IS! 🤮

@READYTEDDYBEAR Жыл бұрын

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

@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын

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

@kingjun73 4 ай бұрын

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

@Weeflowerofscotland Жыл бұрын

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

@11UncleBooker22 Жыл бұрын

Show-Business, that's all.

@mariiarg3271 Жыл бұрын

❣️

@SitScared1 Жыл бұрын

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! 🤣

@trevorrandom Жыл бұрын

Wonder if these girls looks like Madonna now?

@gerardjames9971 Жыл бұрын

Mandy and her two Irish friends Bridget and Nuala

@Tnenamrep2 Жыл бұрын

I wonder what these girls are up to today?

@DeuDeoEgo 3 ай бұрын

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.

@Jumpmaster337 Жыл бұрын

Wish it was 1985 now...

@AD-kv9kj Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Will you settle for 1984?

@elijahmodnar1 Жыл бұрын

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

@TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын

"She knows what she wants, I don't." - Exactly. This is what separates leaders from blind followers.

@eemoogee160 Жыл бұрын

Followers want what others want.

@wildkeith Жыл бұрын

All are followers. It’s human nature.

@wotdoesthisbuttondo Жыл бұрын

Women don't want to be twatty commie leaders if attractive and want to be married, did you see the old pics of original suffragettes? not exacly attractive.

@squeezybob84 Жыл бұрын

And 40 years later Madonna is crazy.

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

And still thinks she’s 20

@vah1761 Жыл бұрын

She's worse than crazy 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

@@vah1761 and still thinks she’s 20

@kevinlongman007 Жыл бұрын

And very rich

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

@@kevinlongman007 very rich

@royaldesign1984 3 ай бұрын

"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 3 ай бұрын

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

@Chris_34 Жыл бұрын

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

@PorkChopExpress86 Жыл бұрын

What a complete virgin 🤣👆

@robertlloyd122 Жыл бұрын

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

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

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

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

Google it 😂

@Laura-sg6ss Жыл бұрын

... please...

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

@@garryleeks4848 what is this Google ????

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

@@pressureworks 😂😂😂

@AD-kv9kj Жыл бұрын

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.

@RickP2012 Жыл бұрын

The BBC seemed more fun then.

@DeuDeoEgo 3 ай бұрын

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

@John-cm3jp Жыл бұрын

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

@TheDjcarlos67 Жыл бұрын

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

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

Elvis was king

@JapatiYTP Жыл бұрын

@@TheDjcarlos67 yep the nonce

@JapatiYTP Жыл бұрын

@@garryleeks4848 yeah

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

@@JapatiYTP yeah

@Laura-sg6ss Жыл бұрын

"Tramp" 💀madting

@thecapricorn11 Жыл бұрын

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

@LSD77777 Жыл бұрын

This was the beginning of the end

@RA-lb3lx Жыл бұрын

“She’s got everything” 😂 yeah right

@CianODonnell Жыл бұрын

A few Irish in there.

@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын

TV used to be way better in the eighties lol

@AtheistOrphan Жыл бұрын

Everything seemed better in the eighties!

@stefjonno1 Жыл бұрын

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

@DMAN-ey1nb 11 ай бұрын

It’s odd to be so obsessed with someone.

@garryleeks4848 Жыл бұрын

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

@baldheadkid Жыл бұрын

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

@TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын

Hey Beebs, why do you upload 4:3 content pillarboxed in a 16:9 frame?

@nocternbemsi5619 Жыл бұрын

it's shot in 4:3 dummy. This is the only right way, unless you want it stretched out

@SoulStylistJukeBox Жыл бұрын

Young people do not understand 4:3. They hate it.

@TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын

@@SoulStylistJukeBox They do not need to "understand" it. They consume content on KZfaq, and when 4:3 is uploaded pillarboxed, KZfaq show useless black bars on the sides, and the active image is smaller than it could be.

@nocternbemsi5619 Жыл бұрын

@@TinLeadHammer you are not bright. I'm sure you can get an extension that stretches 4:3 video whenever youtube displays it if you insist on having a corrupted image

@cawleygamma Жыл бұрын

Yes, video should be uploaded in the format it was filmed in, not stretched to fill the screen!

@djbethell Жыл бұрын

Lookalikes??? 🤦‍♂️

@READYTEDDYBEAR Жыл бұрын

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

@sharonwhiteman6874 Жыл бұрын

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

@th8257 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Be quiet women.

@DG-EditsYT Жыл бұрын

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

@BozeDoesGodsWork Жыл бұрын

@@DG-EditsYT🤡

@JB-pl1iu 3 ай бұрын

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

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

What a modern role model for women :P

@valeriataylor8337 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@valeriataylor8337 Stop talking woman.

@fidelisfaber4961 Жыл бұрын

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.

@AD-kv9kj Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@kcam3683 Жыл бұрын

@@wildkeith 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@kcam3683 Жыл бұрын

@@AD-kv9kj 👍🏻

@johnk1639 Жыл бұрын

Such pitiful prizes 😂

@phillipecook3227 Жыл бұрын

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

@areyouserious3092 Жыл бұрын

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

@danpreston564 Жыл бұрын

So judgemental.

@petergivenbless900 Жыл бұрын

The saddest Madonna wannabe today is Madonna herself!

@JB-pl1iu 3 ай бұрын

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

@petergivenbless900 3 ай бұрын

@@JB-pl1iu *wheelchair

@markparfett5380 2 ай бұрын

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.

@hansbambach4854 Жыл бұрын

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

@BozeDoesGodsWork Жыл бұрын

Cry about it 🤡

@HopeLaFleur1975 Жыл бұрын

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

@BuckRolly1 Жыл бұрын

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