| If Madonna looked like a Pat
Benatar wannabe on the single cover for
"Borderline," then
"Lucky Star" is the
single that launched Madonna's own army of
wannabes. The street urchin look combined with
that oh-so-tantalizing belly button made the
"Lucky Star" video one of Madonna's
most indelible images, and helped continue her
increased profile on both the charts and the pop
culture map. The song is a riff on a popular
children's rhyme, and barely walked the line
between cheesy and sexy. The single is one of a
handful to miss the top ten in the UK -- indeed,
the next ten years featured ten straight years of
top tens for Madonna in Britain. The song is now
also featured on the soundtrack to her husband Guy
Ritchie's film, "Snatch."
TRIVIA: In 1984, Madonna was
quite eager to release her sophomore album "Like
A Virgin," but due to the
unstoppable success of "Borderline" and
"Lucky Star," the "Like A
Virgin" album and single were pushed back to
the end of the year. Another interesting foot
note: in 2000, Madonna fans encountered a
surprising find on the web -- rumored pics of the
original album art for Madonna's first album,
which featured different cover art and was titled
"Lucky Star."
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