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''Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour'' is the first video album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released by Warner Music Video and Sire Records on November 13, 1985 and contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Director Daniel Kleinman, who presided over the shooting of the tour on video, submitted the footage to Warner Bros. Records, who decided to release it as a video album. 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. After 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. The video was certified two-times 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. The live performances of "Like a Virgin" and "Dress You Up" were released as music videos on MTV to promote the video album. Both videos were nominated for "Best Choreography" at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. ==Background== Madonna's first concert tour, The Virgin Tour, promoted her first two studio albums, ''Madonna'' and ''Like a Virgin''. The tour was a commercial success, with ''Billboard'' Boxscore reporting a gross of US $3.3 million. After the tour was over, Madonna started recording her third studio album, ''True Blue''. Film director Daniel Kleinman, who presided over the shooting of the tour on video, submitted the footage to Warner Bros. Records, who decided to release it as a video album.〔 ''Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour'' chronicled The Virgin Tour as shot at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985.〔 Madonna, who was busy with ''True Blue'' and shooting for the comedy film ''Shanghai Surprise'', was contacted by Kleinman to ask about her approval of the shot footage.〔 She felt that the video "needed a proper introduction. I asked () Foley darling to shoot me saying something for adding it before the concert starts." Foley, who directed the music video of her song "Live to Tell", shot an introduction which was added at the beginning of the video. It portrayed Madonna in her first image makeover, with platinum blond curls, and conservative wardrobe.〔 Madonna wanted to include a summation of her biography—which was used at the beginning of The Virgin Tour—to be added with the footage. Hence, with the footage, Madonna's voice was heard, declaring,
This was followed by the concert, beginning with "Dress You Up". The performances of "Angel", "Borderline" and "Burning Up" were removed from the tracklist of the video, as Kleinman believed that Madonna's performance was not her best in them.〔 While shooting the tour on May 25, during the performance of "Like a Virgin", a fan suddenly came up on the stage and tried to get hold of Madonna, but was swiftly whisked away by security. Kleinman decided to keep the shot, as he felt that it illustrated the fanaticism which had grown around Madonna, and her popularity.〔 The live performances of "Like a Virgin" and "Dress You Up" were released as music video on MTV to promote the video album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Madonna: Dress You Up music video )〕 Both videos were nominated for "Best Choreography" at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. However, Madonna lost the award to Prince and The Revolution with their video "Raspberry Beret."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1986 MTV Video Music Awards )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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