I still remember the summer of 1986, sitting in front of the television, waiting for MTV to debut the new video from Madonna! I was so excited and just loved her new short hair and leather jacket! Amazing the things we remember from our childhood.
“Papa Don’t Preach” is from Madonna’s 1986 album “True Blue” and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Brian Elliot, who described it as “a love song, maybe framed a little bit differently”. Brian based the song on teen gossip he heard outside his recording studio, which had a large front window that doubled as a mirror where schoolgirls from the North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles regularly stopped to fix their hair and chat.