"I started going out with this girl when I was 21 - I was a late developer - and she wasn’t really bothered about music. She had three records: Madonna’s first album, Parade by Prince and, weirdly, Howard Devoto’s solo album. At the time I would never have listened to Madonna, being Mr Alternative, but being limited by my girlfriend’s musical choices I found myself hearing this track a lot, and ultimately really liking it. It educated me about my latent musical snobbishness. Hearing it now reminds me of a happy period."

Burning up, Madonna (1983) features on Jarvis Cocker’s “Soundtrack of my life,” The Guardian