In the week where ‘Everybody’ dropped 36 years ago, I got thinking about Madonna’s cover art. As a pop star who is equal parts pop music and pop art, her album artwork doesn’t convey the controversy, provocation or have the impact of her music videos, performances or even her fashion moments when she decides to wear a pair of pink satin curtains or get her tits out in leather bondage straps for Gaultier. That being said, I like these three. Everybody seems like such an oddity – a cool 80s NYC collage for her first single with Madonna nowhere to be seen. I kind of like that there must have been a short time when this came out where people listened and didn’t know what she looked like. This would never, ever, ever happen again. I also bought the Erotica double album because it was only £4 and this too is a kind of oddity – a record that only homosexuals of a particular era appreciate and understand. And lastly, another pop cultural oddity… I only know the band Sonic Youth by their name and the knowledge that I’d hate them. But I love that they love 80s Madonna so much that they covered ‘into the Groove’ and ‘Burning Up’ under the psuedenom ‘Ciccone Youth.’  Andy Warhol created the  cover artwork which is the only time he produced images of her despite them knowing each other, having many mutual friends and him writing about her in his diaries.