[Harry!]

Vote: Best Madison Square Garden show of the 90's


Fans can vote for Madonna's 1993 The Girlie Show concerts at New York City's Madison Square Garden in a poll to find the best show at the venue in the 90's.


Voting closes on Wednesday 25 November - to vote visit www.msg.com - and it appears you can vote as many times as you want!

[Harry!]

Mexican Magazines: Rolling Stone

This classic Madonna photograph by Herb Ritts is featured on the December 2009 issue of the Mexican edition of Rolling Stone magazine. This is the same cover picture and article that was featured in the US edition of the magazine last month.

[Harry!]

Revolver Digital Single out on December 14

from madonnafanzine:

News on Revolver (from Warner Music Netherlands):

Digital download will be available on December 14th:

1 track
1. Revolver [One Love Remix]

The following downloads will be exclusive on iTunes (for The Netherlands):

1 track:
1. Revolver [One Love Remix] feat. Lil Wayne

2 track:
1. Revolver [One Love Remix]
2. Revolver [Feat. Akon]

[Harry!]

Revolver Single Cover

[Harry!]

Maripol comments on her photo of Madonna



Madonna photographed inside New York City’s Danceteria in 1983.

“The picture is talking in a way. It’s saying ‘Look who I am. I’m not famous but I’m going to be.’ She didn’t drink much but she liked her Martini. I don’t think she smoked. Maybe I gave her the cigarette for attitude. I never saw Madonna smoking cigarettes as much as other people. She never did coke. That’s why she was Madonna, why she became as big as she did: because she was always in control.” – Maripol

Photograph by Maripol courtesy of Who Shot Rock and Roll

source: rolling stone

[Harry!]

Sticky & Sweet Tour DVD to be released in February 2010 ?

According to HMV Japan
Format: CD with DVD
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Catalog #: WPZR30363
Label: Warner Music Japan

[001steven]

Omg serious??!! That's way long away lol

thought it was gonna be out for Xmas

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by 001steven

Omg serious??!! That's way long away lol

thought it was gonna be out for Xmas

I know its a load of rubbish isnt it! At least we can now know what she can premote on the X Factor final then - Revolver single!

Madonna would HAVE to go on the final as that is the only sate left which hasnt got any acts comfurmed for it(George Michael is but IDK about him).

That means she will have to preform with one of the acts too

[Harry!]

Madonna interview with Ben Shepherd on GMTV on Dec 7th

An advert on GMTV announces a new Madonna interview with Ben Shepherd that will air on UK television on December 7th between 7 and 9 AM,

Thanks to M-Tribe Community members MJ and Robknight.

[Harry!]

Britney Channeled 'Classy' Madonna in Radar Video

Britney Spears has been compared to Madonna since she leapt onto the pop scene, dancing around in a schoolgirl uniform. The two did eventually hook up for 'Me Against the Music,' but Britney's video for 'Radar,' from her Circus album, really paid tribute to the pop queen and her ultra-glamorous Bedtime Stories period.

In the video, Britney is stuck in a love triangle with two very sexy polo players, who spend a good part of their time trying to woo Spears or riding their horses. Spears hooked up with 'Boys' director Dave Meyers for an ode to Madonna's 'Take a Bow.'

'That was the premise behind 'Radar.' [We were] looking for a way to take her into a contemporary, classy environment,' Meyers explained. 'I felt empowered by referencing Madonna's video. Britney hasn't done anything like that.'

From MTV.com

[Iceman]

I didn't know Lil Wayne was part of the song......thats a interesting one....didnt see that coming..

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by Schumacher

I didn't know Lil Wayne was part of the song......thats a interesting one....didnt see that coming..

Well he was in the demo so it didnt surprise me.

[001steven]

Can't wait to see her interview, let's jst hope now Xfactor confirm madonna, also if she us over here for promo for celebration she's surely gonna have to perform Revolver I mean it be odd if she did celebration.

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by 001steven

Can't wait to see her interview, let's jst hope now Xfactor confirm madonna, also if she us over here for promo for celebration she's surely gonna have to perform Revolver I mean it be odd if she did celebration.

Yes she would have to sing Revolver for extra premotion, Or a mix of the two would be ok.

I unoficaly say she will be on the XF Final thats my opinion.

[001steven]

Promo for celebration has Been really poor

at least it done well though

really hope she does xfactor

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by 001steven

Promo for celebration has Been really poor

at least it done well though

really hope she does xfactor

Yes it has had next to no premotion on TV. But Celebration was a closure from her leaving WMG.

If she dont do XF I wont be happy at all.

[001steven]

Same, I mean one interview on gmtv, is hardly promo

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by 001steven

Same, I mean one interview on gmtv, is hardly promo

She has done a few promos for different countries but ironicly they have used the SAME backdrop behind Madonna for all of them. I blame her manegement, The same manegement who said Revolver would have no video.

[Harry!]

Shanghai Surprise – New UK DVD



Release Date: 4 Jan 2010
Run Time: 93 minutes
Bonus Features: Trailer
Number Of Discs: 1
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Region 2 / PAL

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...SIN=B002V8FS9C

[Harry!]

Rupert Everret talks about Madonna…

What’s more, he has a special knack of always being where the action is: in Moscow with the tanks and Yeltsin during the 1991 coup, strolling through downtown Manhattan on 11 September, nightclubbing in Miami with Gianni Versace before he was shot, sleeping with Béatrice Dalle when she was the most desirable woman in France, having an affair with Paula Yates when she was one half of the most famous couple in Britain. Not forgetting his most publicly defining role: gay best friend to Madonna.

Or at least he was. Until she read his book.

“She really didn’t like it.”

Didn’t she, I say? But it’s very affectionate.

“I think it is very affectionate, and certainly with her I was very careful to only write things that were. But she felt it was an infringement of privacy.”

In fact, it is mostly very affectionate. Of their first meeting, he writes: “She had the cupid-bow lips of a silent screen star, and it was obvious that she was playing with Sean [Penn]’s cock throughout the meal. She was mesmerizing. She oozed sex and demanded a sexual response from everyone. It didn’t matter if you were gay. You were swept up all the same.”

When I read it a second time around, though, I think I spot some of the areas of potential concern. His observation that she smells “vaguely of sweat”, to take one example. Or that, like all Hollywood’s alpha females, she’s something of a “she-man”. Or just possibly it was this bit that she didn’t care much for: “Just like America, everything about Madonna had changed. And what had happened had been carefully wrapped in psychological clingfilm and locked inside an interior fridge. Sometimes, in moments of stress, Madonna had power cuts and the old whiny barmaid came screaming out of the defrosting cold room.”

Still, I say, it’s not like you give anything away.

“No I don’t, but goddesses like that are obsessed with their public image and want to control everything about it, so if anyone is to tell anyone anything about her it’s got to be her.”

So has she forgiven you for that now?

“No.”

Really?

“Elephants don’t forget.”

Has she not forgiven you in a jokey way, or has she really not forgiven you?

“She doesn’t trust me any more.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/...ole-cadwalladr

[Harry!]

Celebration on Album Charts – Week #9


Australia – 8-6-8-11-16-24-30-35-57 (26.524)
Austria – 4-9-14-21-42-57-57-67-/
Belgium (Flanders) – 2-1-2-3-6-7-11-14
Belgium (Wallonia) – 7-2-3-4-9-9-12-14
Canada – 1-5-5-11-20-45-62-73 (~38.000)
Czech Republic – 1-2-1-3-5-12-11-20-35
Denmark – 1-2-3-5-10-16-29-36-40
Finland – 2-2-2-9-12-17-21-23-35
France (C) – 1-1-2-2-2-5-6-8-13 (68.381+)
Germany – 1-1-8-9-12-23-36-39-57 (100.500+)
Hungary – 2-4-3-4-7-8-12-18-27-32
Ireland – 1-2-1-3-12-25-33-41-79-90
Italy – 1-2-3-2-2-3-7-9-14
Japan – 12-3-6-6-9-13-18-21-29 (166.940)
Mexico – 2-1-5-5-6-7-10-15-17
Netherlands – 2-2-7-11-20-24-38-51-65-71
New Zealand – 2-3-5-9-15-20-27-39-/
Norway – 5-4-4-3-7-12-16-28-/
Poland – 3-3-5-11-21-23-37-37-42
Portugal – 2-2-4-5-7-11-17-19-24
Spain – 2-4-7-4-10-15-14-24-38
Sweden – 2-7-10-17-15-21-35-49-/
Switzerland – 3-3-5-9-14-16-22-29-52
UK – 1-2-2-3-14-25-26-31-49 (222.997+)
USA – 7-20-38-47-66-91-114-143 (150.102+)
Europe – 1-1-1-1-3-5-12-13-29
United World – 4-1-1-2-8-12-16-21-35 (1.131.000)

last number is the latest chart position / () – complete sales

[Harry!]

Madonna loves Christian Audigier's label, but will we?

He is one of Hollywood's most popular celebrity designers, beloved by the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, David Beckham and Mariah Carey. Now Christian Audigier, the man behind the Ed Hardy label, is opening his first boutique in the UK, prompting the question: are we ready for his tattoo-inspired, crystal-encrusted clothes?

The popularity of the Ed Hardy range owes nothing to style magazines or fashionistas - it has become famous for its inclusion in celebrity wardrobes.
Although the designs of skulls, roses and tigers are the work of US tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy, they have been transformed into a global brand by French designer Audigier, who has covered a wall in his Los Angeles office with 70 paparazzi shots of Madonna wearing his clothes. Audigier says he is now working with the star to produce her own clothing range.

He was also meant to be working with Michael Jackson on a clothing brand at the time of the singer's death in June, and Audigier created stage outfits which were to be used in Jackson's comeback tour. The free publicity from these celebrity endorsements has proved a successful marketing plan - this month, Hubert Guez, chief executive of Ed Hardy, predicted that the brand would generate sales of $400m this year.

'I associate the brand with Madonna,' says Ellie Crompton, style editor of
Heat magazine. 'It would make sense for them to collaborate on a project. He's a strong horse to back in fashion, and part of the interest comes from his personality. He's a crazy character and fashion loves a character.'

As Ed Hardy clothing has become more famous, so has Audigier. The designer, who started his career working for 80s brands such as Fiorucci and Naf Naf, is as flamboyant as the sparkling T-shirts and hooded tops that have made him rich. Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson and Michael Jackson were guests at his 50th birthday party last year.

In an interview with American GQ last month, Audigier said he was due to appear in a film with rapper 50 Cent and to record an album with Kanye West. He told GQ: 'Obama was 200% advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.'

But will his clothing range catch on in Britain when the store opens in west London's Westfield Centre this week? 'Stars like David Beckham and Madonna have a massive reach with the British public,' says Crompton, 'so I can see it having a far-reaching appeal to the mass market. But how long can Audigier make that last? The label's got a very strong image, but I don't see how he can diversify the brand. It might be this year's fad.'

From The Observer

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Press Archive: Madonna's AIDS Letter

madonnalicious takes a look back in the magazine archives to commemorate World AIDS Day today (Tuesday 01 December). This scan is from an article in UK magazine Smash Hits takes a look at a letter Madonna had written about AIDS that was published in 1991 in the year-end edition of Billboard magazine.

Click on the image for a HQ version.

[Harry!]

30 November - Something to remember: All the world is a stage


...and everyone has their part. With that Shakespearean line as the centerpiece of the song's bridge, Take A Bow signals a very special period in Madonna's career. The closing track and also the second single of the Bedtime Stories album, Take A Bow received exceptional video treatment from Madonna, and the final result of that premiered on MTV exactly 15 years ago, on November 30th, 1994. Madonna flew to historic town Ronda in Spain with the direction of Michael Haussman and created a videoclip that would serve as her plea to get her dream role as Eva Peron. Executed in a 40s style, the video showed Madonna at her classiest yet, in a Galliano dress she shone as the mistreated lover of a famous bullfighter, eventually running away from him. The storyline is interspersed with scenes of bullfighting and Madonna showing her assets in bed, not entirely abandoning the explicit Erotica years. The gorgeous video would go onto winning the Best Female Video at the 1995 VMAs and yielded a follow up in the form of the You'll See video where Madonna has the higher hand and escapes from her stalker.

While the video undoubtedly gave the single the push to become a classic, the ballad also stands on its own merits with its Oriental-tingled instrumentation (which is also inspired by the Paul Robeson version of the classic poem "Trees"), Craig Armstrong's amazing string arrangement and Madonna's silky smooth vocals backed by co-writer/co-producer Babyface, one of the most famous hitmakers at the time.

But it's the song's chart performance that made it a remarkable entry in Madonna's career. All formats of the single were released days after the video premiere and both sales and airplay would slowly and steadily climb until the end of January, when Madonna gave her first and so far only live performance of the song at the American Music Awards (the only time she sang at this show). Dressed in a Chinese gown, Madonna gave a simple but effective performance backed by an orchestra and Babyface himself, which gave great exposure to the song in the US and soon after it would climb to #1, kicking the Dallas Austin produced "Creep" by TLC from the top spot and holding it for seven weeks, which would be the longest ever for a Madonna single. While the sales of Take A Bow exceeded 600,000 copies in the US which earned it a Gold certification, it failed to reach the Platinum status of her other megahits as it was airplay where the track was really shining: it was the most played song of America for nine straight weeks. The success of the single also helped the album to stop falling down the chart and it managed to stay in the Top 20 during the Christmas season, which would eventually become the only reason why Bedtime Stories outsold Erotica in the US, as after Take A Bow started its slow descent on the charts, the album went with it and subsequent single releases didn't have much effect.

Outside the US the single also became a big hit in Canada, Japan and Australia, her other main markets of the 90s. In Europe, however, Madonna got some of her worst chart positions ever when this single got lost in the Christmas shuffle, like in Belgium, or in the UK, where it was her then-lowest peaking single and is one of the six Madonna singles that failed to reach the UK Top 10. Madonna gave 2 lip-synced performances of Take A Bow at Germany's Wetten Dass and Italy's San Remo which gave better chart performances in those countries.

The success of Take A Bow allowed it to become one of the 4 songs in Madonna's discography that can be found on 4 different Madonna albums. Featuring on all the compilations released after the single itself, proves that among all of Madonna's ballad hits of the mid-90s, Take A Bow is the pinnacle.

Unfortunately Take A Bow has never been performed live on a Madonna tour and is the only one out of the 34 hits of the Celebration compilation that was not used on a tour in any form. It is speculated that Madonna intentionally refuses to perform songs on her tours that have a "goodbye" theme. Maybe Madonna is saving Take A Bow to be her last ever live performance? Time will tell...

[Harry!]

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