How Madonna left the Vatican fuming and was dropped by Pepsi after one controversial video | Music | Entertainment
Madonna was a controversial pop figure in the 1980s (Image: Getty)
When the music video for Madonna’s Like A Prayer premiered on MTV in the spring of 1989, pop shifted on its axis. The singer, then 30, had form for shocking the world. She wore crucifixes – “because there’s a naked man on them” – and on the cover of her second album, Like A Virgin, her skirt was belted with a buckle that read “Boy Toy”.
But Like A Prayer took shock to a different level.
Even 35 years later, the…
