1988: Race Against Time Press Conference

1988 came after 3 of the most intense years in Madonna's career and for fans at the time it was frustrating! Getting used to a year without any new music from Madonna was not easy.

But I adored this year - it was still wall-to-wall Madonna in the papers and magazines, with new photos every week showing what she was up to in New York with that gorgeous dark hair. Wishing there was some way I could get to see Speed-The-Plow figured big in my schoolboy thoughts that year, but it was not to be!

One of the exciting public appearances Madonna made in 1988 came in my school holidays - August 8th to be precise (and a couple of days later photos were all over the UK press). Madonna had appeared at a press conference to launch Sport Aid's "Race Against Time".

Here's a CNN report about the event, watchable quality, but only just!

(CNN, August 1988)

1990: Madonna Live In Germany!

One of the very few indoor arena shows of the European leg of the Blond Ambition tour was on July 17th 1990 at the Westfallenhalle in Dortmund, Germany.

This is a really nice German TV report about the concert, including great footage from the gig of "Sooner or Later" and "Express Yourself"!

(ZDF Germany, July 1990)

1987: ADIS Benefit Concert in New York City

Apologies for the quality of this clip - it's from a 2nd or 3rd generation VHS copy which has also been primitively converted from NTSC to PAL!

But it's a cool report from local New York Channel 7 "Eyewitness" news - a rare piece about Madonna's special AIDS benefit concert at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 13th 1987.

This rare indoor arena gig (on what was mostly a stadium tour in both North America & Europe), was staged entirely as a fundraiser for AmFAR. Fans attending the concert were given a unique Who's That Girl Tour comic book, explaining the facts about safe sex and AIDS.

(Channel 7 News, July 1987)

1990: Madonna Profile from Dutch TV.

This is quite a nice career profile from Saturday afternoon music show "Countdown" which aired weekly on the Dutch TV channel RTL-4 back in the 80s and 90s.

Included is some footage of Madonna performing in Rotterdam, Holland on her 1987 Who's That Girl Tour and also in Tokyo, Japan on the 1990 Blond Ambition Tour.

Rare interview footage and movie clips are also used to describe Madonna's career year-by-year up to and including 1990.

(RTL-4, July 1990)

1990: Dick Tracy "Vogue" TV Trailer

Even though the song does not feature anywhere in the movie, Touchstone Pictures based this great TV trailer for "Dick Tracy" around Madonna's international number one hit "Vogue".

(MTV Europe, July 1990)

1990: Donna Delory talks LIVE on Sky News

20 years ago this month, Madonna was on her 2nd concert tour of the UK! Her Blond Ambition tour played 3 nights at London's Wembley Stadium and her week-long stay in the city caused a total media frenzy.

Of course Madonna herself kept away from the TV studios while she was in London, but backing singer / dancer Donna Delory spent the morning of Friday July 20th visiting a variety of UK TV shows to give interviews.

By mid-morning Donna was at the Sky News studios and here's her live interview with Vivien Creegor about what it was like to work with Madonna on the Blond Ambition Tour.

(Sky News, July 1990)