This month marks Madonna's 30th year in the music business, bitches!! On October 6, 1982 the career to top all careers in the music biz was born when Madonna released her first single, Everybody. The song, a simple call to the dancefloor, was not a hit on the Hot 100, but it gave Madonna her very first hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart (#3), which of course, she would go on to OWN over the next 30 years. To date she has place 43 songs at the top of that chart. Anyhoo, Madonna wrote Everybody with her friend and collaborator Steven Bray and used to carry a rough demo of it, along with Ain't No Big Deal and Burning Up, with her to all the clubs she would go to. One infamous night at Danceteria she finally talked DJ Mark Kamins into giving it a spin, the crowd went wild, and the rest is history. Kamins ultimately got her introduced to Seymour Stein, the president of Sire Records, and Madonna was signed to an initial deal. And that, my friends, is called working it. Madonna hasn't slowed down since. Special note: The cover for the single of Everybody did not show a picture of Madonna because they didn't want anyone to know she was NOT a black artist. The record company thought it would go over better that way. Pretty funny considering how much her image ended up shaping not only her career but the entire decade to follow. So, here is her very first single, the song that started it all, Everybody.
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