Live To Tell

No, that's not a mistake. Dave Marsh ranked this Madonna single at #48 in his list of the 1001 greatest rock'n'soul singles ever made. It's the highest-ranking of six Madonna singles in his list! I share Marsh's high estimation of this lady's recorded pop music. As he says of this one in his lengthy description,

If there weren't such massive prejudice against Madonna's overconfident displays of her sexuality, "Live To Tell" would be ranked among the greatest pop songs written in the past decade, a penetrating psychological portrait...

\r\nThe B side is a longer (5:49) instrumental version of the song (4:37), which is specially edited from a 5:45 album track. Note: This beautiful copy has Near Mint labels and pristine sound, and the picture sleeve is nearly flawless!