The Vinyl Countdown # 53

Madonna, Papa Don’t Preach [Single] (1986)

When I was a kid and Madonna burst onto the scene I thought she was fantastic – and then very quickly grew self-conscious about that; I wasn’t meant to like her. So I didn’t really pursue fandom, never bought any of the records. But the big songs were inescapable. And just as well. So it was several years before…