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Pop superstar Madonna stunned security staff at an airport in Germany on Thursday night - by turning up wearing a bathrobe. The Holiday hitmaker arrived at Schoenefeld airport after performing at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin as part of her Sticky + Sweet world tour.

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By Pera Luxottica Group announced today that their classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer (RB2140) are featured in Madonna's critically acclaimed sold out Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008 which kicked-off in Cardiff, Wales on August 23rd. Madonna and her crew of dancers don the classic black Wayfarer in the sh...

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By Pera As the singer gets into the groove of her 51-date world tour, her priorities are simple: "Making sure the show is perfect - and taking care of her kids and her husband," says her rep. And even though she recently celebrated her 50th birthday, Madonna has no plans to retire any time soon.

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By Pera Madonna can be nominated in 5 categories : ACT OF 2008 BEST ACT EVER MOST ADDICTIVE TRACK (4 Minutes) HEADLINER ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Hard Candy) Vote at MTV.tv Thanks to Amy... ACT OF 2008 BEST ACT EVER MOST ADDICTIVE TRACK (4 Minutes) HEADLINER ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Hard Candy)

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By Pera John McCain's campaign hit back at Madonna on Sunday after the pop diva began her world tour with a concert that bracketed the US presidential candidate with Adolf Hitler. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds angrily condemned the segment of Madonna's...

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By Pera Sticky & Sweet is the third Madonna tour I have seen. I hate seeing Madonna play guitar but her rock version of Borderline became a thrash of Stooges-style chords. Without question, Madonna is still the Queen Of Pop. Long live the Queen.

By Pera Highlights include the black and gold tassel bustier from the 1986 video for Open Your Heart and the pink dress from Material Girl. The show will feature more than 30 dresses worn by Madonna in her star role in the movie Evita and the Like A Virgin tour wedding gown.

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By Pera There are a lot of armchair Madonna experts doing the rounds - but few who have seen her in action as often as Guy Ritchie. You can't blame a man married to Madonna for having trouble with his eyesight. I couldn't believe my eyes for most of the show on Saturday night.

By Pera A second show in Sao Paulo was recently added to the 'Sticky & Sweet' tour itinerary. Madonna will perform a second show at Morumbi Stadium on December 20. Public pre-registration started on August 25th and tickets will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, September 3.

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The evening has nine of the 12 songs on her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, which went straight to the top of the charts in 31 countries. It culminates in a grand finale focusing on what could be described as Madge's 'post-imperial' phase: a futuristic, Japanese-influenced rave set in which...

By Pera During the show Madonna played around 20 songs which spanned a career of nearly three decades, including "Like A Prayer," "Into The Groove" and "Hung Up." Her decision in 2006 to adopt a young Malawian boy whose mother died was controversial in Africa and further afield.

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By Pera Other re-workings of her old hits included a guitar-heavy rock version of Borderline and striking New York subway train visuals on the track Music. Sticky & Sweet" is Madonna's first world tour since she hit the road in 2006 with "Confessions" -- the highest grossing tour by a female a...

By Pera The Sticky & Sweet Tour is produced by Live Nation Global Touring. 653 Hours of rehearsal time for Madonna and band 10 Number of guitars Madonna will travel with 8 Major Madonna Costume changes 4 YSL Lipsticks will cover entire tour

By Pera The final preparations are being made for the start of Madonna's 27-date world tour which kicks of at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday. The Old School show section will see Madonna return to her early 80s downtown New York City dance roots and the birth of rap.

By Pera It was left to husband Guy Ritchie, 39, daughter Lourdes, 11, sons Rocco, eight, and David, two, around 50 of her dancers and some work colleagues to toast her half century. In a 40-minute speech to her 90 guests, Madonna thanked Guy, her children and her Kabbalah religion, before admittin...

By Pera Madonna with Guy, leaving the Kabbalah Centre in London (August 15 2008)... Madonna with Guy, leaving the Kabbalah Centre in London (August 15 2008)

By Pera Madonna, meanwhile, has amassed more than 20 movie credits, from the credible Desperately Seeking Susan to the middling Evita to the jaw-droppingly awful straight-to-video flop Swept Away. Admittedly the latter may have been a subliminal bid to sabotage the career of her husband Guy R...

By Pera The Sun claimed the singer, 49, had been pursuing Mercy James for a year but stopped proceedings when her marriage to Guy Ritchie grew rocky. Madonna's adoption of David Banda, 2, also from Malawi, was approved by the country's courts in May after a two-year battle.

By Pera I Am Because We Are includes a foreword by Madonna, an afterword by Ashburn, excerpts from interviews with Malawian children, their biographies, and extended captions. Author proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the charitable organization Raising Malawi for their ext...

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By Pera A week later, the two of us are sitting at a window table at the Modern at MoMA during what has turned out to be Madonna's biggest shit-storm in years. She is everywhere, including the front page of the Post, portrayed as a MAN EATER (while looking sort of like the Unabomber) for supposedly tem...

Madonna, we love you!" The proceeds from two Saturday screenings of "I Am Because We Are" (at the State, where Madonna appeared, and another at the nearby City Opera House, which had a live simulcast of her remarks) will go to Madonna's foundation, Raising Malawi.

By Pera She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there's more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna. The pop superstar arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am...

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Jose Canseco: Singer Madonna Begged Me to Impregnate her Us: At that first meeting at the Hollywood Hills, what happened? How was she? JC: She brought me up to her room and turned on Truth or Dare and showed me the masturbation scene and asked me what I thought about it.

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The book offers snapshots of Bruce Willis allegedly hitting on other women while still married to Demi Moore, of Ciccone dancing with Moore at a drag queen club, of Madonna allegedly kissing Gwyneth Paltrow on the mouth during a New Year's Eve dance at which Ciccone said that he and Ritchi...

By Pera Madonna's spokeswoman has released an exclusive statement to PEOPLE rejecting reports that the singer's marriage to her film director husband Guy Ritchie is on the rocks. Madonna and Alex have the same manager, Guy Oseary," Rosenberg says. "They have met. They know each other and Madonna...

By Pera I believe he was having an affair with Madonna," she told a friend, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering A-Rod. "She said she found a letter where Alex told Madonna: 'You are my true soulmate.'" Simultaneously, Madonna has been hounded by reports that her seven-year marriage to filmm...

By Pera The closing section of the tour includes the promo tour version of 4 Minutes followed by one of the greatest surprises fans will adore: Impressive Instant from the "Music" album!! Ray of Light follows. It's basically the album version with some changes in the middle. The promo tour version...

By Pera Madonna has asked troubled Britney Spears to join her on tour -- and pals hope she will give guidance to the young star. Madonna has also invited Britney to appear in person on some of the world tour dates. Britney and Madonna stunned fans at the MTV Music Awards in 2003 by sharing a passionate k...

By Pera She and pop tarts Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera steamed up the MTV Movie Awards in 2003 with some sexy girl-girl kissing. Aside from Rocco, Madonna also has 11-year-old Lourdes - with dancer Carlos Leon - and David, 2, whom she adopted from Malawi.

By Pera At the weekend, Ritchie flew to New York to see his wife, taking their son, Rocco, seven, Lourdes, 11, by her former personal trainer Carlos Leon, and adopted son, David, two. Guy is looking after all the children in London while Madonna is on tour in America,' I am told.

By Pera Will Madonna and Guy Ritchie separate? I don't know. The last time I saw Guy and Madonna together, they couldn't have been more convivial and affectionate. They were in public, of course, so we take the proverbial grain of salt on that one. She has three children. She is not cavalier when it come...

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With nearly 1 million tickets sold to date along with sold out performances in Paris, Lisbon & Zurich; New York, Boston, Chicago; Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and 2 Mexican stadium shows on Monday, Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour is once again poised to be the tour of the year! The...

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Live Nation is on the defensive about the health of its $120 million Madonna deal. Analysts note that the album could be hard pressed to match the business of her last album "Confessions on a Dance Floor," which sold more than 1.6 million copies in the US.

Entertainment superstar Madonna is scheduled to introduce in person her film, "I Am Because We Are," on Aug. 2 at the State Theatre. The $25 tickets sold out in a flash, and some subsequently showed up for sale on eBay. A search of the auction site Wednesday found about 10 tickets.

An electronic musician and a member of Madonna's touring band since 2001, Price attracted acclaim for his remixes of No Doubt's It's My Life and The Killers' Mr Brightside before co-writing and co-producing Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor in 2005. He recently produced Seal's Sys...

By Pera Sony Ericsson and Warner Music International (WMI) have announced an agreement enabling new music and mobile content from Madonna's new album, HARD CANDY, to be sold with selected Sony Ericsson mobile devices in twenty seven countries. High profile marketing campaigns in each countr...

By Pera Badour arrived at the State around 3 a.m. Thursday to be the first in line for tickets to see Madonna present her documentary, "I Am Because We Are," at this summer's Traverse City Film Festival. She is from the state of Michigan, so we support a home-state girl," Reinhart said.

Madonna's current CD "HARD CANDY" which debuted at the Number One slot in 37 countries remains the number one CD on Billboard's European Album Chart along with holding the number one single spot on Billboard's European single chart with the smash hit "4 Minutes." In the US, "HARD CANDY" ha...

Saying she was "happy to be the guinea pig", Madonna expressed hope that her full adoption of the African boy David, whose final verdict will be made on Wednesday, will make it easier for other people to adopt children in the impoverished country.

By Pera Stone, who having just turned 50 called it her "birthday amfAR," showed clips of her travels around the world raising funds for the charity, while Madonna, 49, was in Cannes to promote her documentary about Malawi children orphaned by AIDS.

By Pera Madonna the documentary-maker came, saw and conquered the world's biggest film festival yesterday with a powerful polemic on the effects of disease and poverty on Malawi. Next in her sights is the Israel-Palestine conflict. The queen of reinvention presented her film, I Am Because We Ar...

What she did was to get Madonna to come on Tuesday, so Roxanna and I arrived on Monday morning. I am writing this as I fly back to New York City on Wednesday. I will go to the benefit; give the commencement speech and put the Madonna interview on this Thursday night on "Nightline."

Madonna said Thursday that the woman had died of AIDS and that David's biological father, who is still alive, had dropped his initial objections and formally approved of the adoption so his son could avoid a life of poverty. Madonna meanwhile is the world's highest paid female singer. Havi...

from BBC News : The tickets have gone on sale for Madonna's 27-date world tour which kicks off in Cardiff in August. As she's starting her world tour here, it's placing a tremendous focus on Cardiff," Gwyn Dolphin from the stadium said.

By Pera Her new album Hard Candy is getting the hard sell - most of the songs are drawn from there. However, few of the new tracks are particularly memorable - although one stand-out moment is a striking image of Madonna and her highly stylised male dancers moving in tandem across the stage during th...

By Pera he father of a Malawian child that Madonna wants to adopt said on Monday he supported her case but wanted the U.S. popstar to bring his boy home for visits. Madonna is expected to appear in a Malawian court on... The pop diva began adoption proceedings in 2006 and the two-year-old has been living wi...

By Pera But none of this really matters. She oozes charisma and does spectacular dance routines, the sense of bizarre occasion compounded by the fact that at the rear of the tent lurks the mayor of Maidstone, resplendent in his official bling. "We're gonna have to start fucking it up!" Madonna squa...

By Pera New York, Paris, Maidstone. For the last of three, short shows to plug her current album, Hard Candy, Madonna arrived by helicopter in the Kent countryside to headline Radio 1's Big Weekend. Clearly, the plan was to prove that a pop star about to turn 50 in August can remain relevant to the kid...

By Pera Madonna has hinted that she may team up with special guests at Radio 1's Big Weekend. Both artists feature on her current Number One album Hard Candy. Justin Timberlake recently joined Madonna onstage to perform 4 Minutes during a secret show in New York.

By Pera HARD CANDY," Madonna's 11th studio album for Warner Bros. Records debuted at number one in 27 countries around the world thus far, including the USA, JAPAN, FRANCE, UK, GERMANY, CANADA, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, THE NETHERLANDS, SOUTH AFRICA, SWEDEN, DENMARK, IRELAND, FINLAND, AUSTRIA, CHI...

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Hard Candy is Madonna's last album on the Warner label before she takes up her astronomical $US120 million ($A126 million), 10-year deal with US concert promoter Live Nation. Andrew Stewart, 37, has seen Madonna 17 times on stage since 1987 and flew in from Thailand specially to catch the...

Finding something new and different is the approach that's kept Madonna on top for most of her 25-year recording career -- and made her a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. AP: Maybe you all could do a Rolling Stone cover together.

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By Pera Which would be a dubious legacy, were it not for the fact she's released so many life-affirming, radio-dazzling, zeitgeist-riding songs along the way, from "Holiday" to "Hung Up", via "Virgin" and "Vogue". And yet she's never got the credit she deserves. Twenty five years after finding f...

A short and sweet, nonstop high-energy dance party -- that was the half-hour-plus set Madonna turned in Wednesday night at New York's Roseland Ballroom, in a special "secret" club show promoting her new LP, Hard Candy. Justin chimed in, telling Madonna, "I think you just had a woman momen...

By Pera You've got to hand it to Madonna -- she never does anything half-assed. The Queen of Pop, whose album Hard Candy dropped Tuesday, pulled out all the stops at New York's intimate Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday night (April 30), dazzling...

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By Pera Madonna humped Justin Timberlake. Despite the fact that she's old enough to be his mother, they really do make beautiful music together. She mostly stuck to songs off the new disc Hard Candy, but the evening--including a laser light show--had a totally '80s feel to it.

By Pera And at 49, Madonna remains on the entrepreneurial vanguard of the music business. "Hard Candy" is her last album for her longtime label, Warner Brothers; in October she announced a new deal with the touring giant Live Nation that will encompass recordings, tours, merchandising and vari...

By Pera A crowd far larger than the 2,200 capacity of New York club Roseland camped out overnight on the streets of midtown Manhattan awaiting the chance to see Madonna debut tracks from her new album Hard Candy on Wednesday. The audience of celebs and die-hard fans who actually made it through the...

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Gay boys, rejoice: The Material Girl a.k.a. Madge a.k.a. M-Dolla, (as she is currently known) has returned to save us from the Miley Cyruses of the world. The diva's latest album, Hard Candy (her last for Warner Records), dropped April 29 to rabid fan anticipation and generally positive reviews....

By Pera It is not yet time to stick a fork in Madonna. The grande dame of pop isn't done just yet. Pop music is supposed to be a young person's game, but Madonna, as she's done so often throughout her quarter-century... DOWNLOAD THESE:"4 Minutes," "Incredible," "Give It 2 Me"

By Pera Candy's sugar solidifies by album's end: "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" is no hit, but it's intriguing lyrics and easy-on-the-ears refrain are good enough to compensate for the fact that it sounds like a rip-off of "Cry Me a River" or "What Goes Around, Comes Around." Candy closer "Voice...

As digital sales of Madonna's new single, "4 Minutes," pass the one million mark, Madonna will be giving away free tickets to hundreds of lucky fans in celebration of this week's release of her new CD "Hard Candy" (April 29) when she gives a historic up-close and personal performance at NY...

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By Pera Madonna is coming home: Having spent a decade working with producers drawn from European club culture, Hard Candy is her link-up with the American men who've come to define global pop. Five songs with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, six with...

By Pera Anyone disappointed by that album should take a lick of "Hard Candy," out Tuesday. It's everything "Confessions" professed to be - and more: a disc that gorges on catchy choruses, nagging beats and insouciant vocals. It may be the best album of Madonna's career. Certainly it's the most cons...

Mrs. Ritchie dishes on long-distance relationships -- "You always have the biggest heart when we're 6,000 miles apart" -- over a Spanish guitar and a Latin-flecked rhythm. Ah, jess. La musica de los Madonna. While Pharrell blends flamenco guitars, a Latin rhythm and some faux toreador horn...

In the latest ELLE magazine, on which she graces the cover, The Queen of Pop describes Timberlake -- who inducted her into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last month -- as "a gentleman," -- and Williams as "a smooth operator." Timbaland? "A Cheshire Cat."

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All through her career, it has been impossible to divorce Madonna's music from her image, as they feed off each other to the point where it's hard to tell which came first, the concept or the songs. Glancing at the aggressively ugly cover to Hard Candy -- its blistering pinks and assaultive l...

By Pera After Confessions On A Dance Floor, where she revived disco and brought legwarmers back in style, we thought there was no musical stone left unturned by Madge. And yet we were sure she would surprise us once again. But at almost 50, the inspiration well seems to have run dry. The solution is a go...

By Pera When in doubt, take Madonna at face value. Since the beginning of her career, she has telegraphed her intentions and labelled herself more efficiently than any observer. She has titled albums Music, Erotica and, in 2005, Confessions On A Dance Floor for a collection that mingled personal...

By Pera From the opening title track of Hard Candy, it sounds as if one of the great British cultural legacies she has readily clasped to her bosom is that of the Carry On movie. With a phalanx of heavy hitters - Timbaland, Kanye West and Justin Timberlake - onside, Hard Candy takes no chances.

Madonna - Hard Candy In the past Stuart Price on Confessions On A Dance Floor, William Orbit on Ray Of Light and Mirwais on Music, all got it right. After Confessions On A Dance Floor which proved she was still Queen Of Disco, her hip-hop venture doesn't work.

By Pera Madonna on Her Directorial Debut and Mission to Save Malawi Madonna recently claimed that she was over New York; she still liked to stick her finger in our socket from time to time, but there were no longer so many... Madonna on Her Directorial Debut and Mission to Save Malawi

By Pera 3. Give It To me: Not a Furtado/Timbo cover but a Pharrell track that's going to be the 2nd single. Let us tell you now - it's mindblowingly amazing. There's cowbells, twinkles and a funny vocoder you might have heard on 'Music'. Think old school pop Madonna but fired up at 300 mph. There's a funky b...

By Pera All of which is worth dwelling on, because how will The Madonna Effect play out when Hard Candy is released? It's tempting even to theorise that Madonna has made it so that there won't be much of an Effect. Hard Candy is no disaster, but a little more of that wouldn't have gone amiss.

By Pera In this up-tempo number, previously called 4 Minutes To Save The World, she exchanges dialogue with Timberlake and Timbaland for, as the title suggests, exactly 240 seconds. Devil is a reworked mid-tempo outtake from her last album, Confessions On A Dance Floor.

Madonna has long been known as the Material Girl..But we're crowning the Queen of Pop the queen of new material judging by her forthcoming album Hard Candy. Her last album Confessions On A Dance Floor in 2005 was filled with great disco classics such as Hung Up.

By Pera Madonna - 4 Minutes Timbaland: I'm out of time And all I got is 4 minutes, 4 minutes Madonna: Come on boy, I've been waiting for somebody to pick up my stroll Justin: Well don't waste time, give me a... Madonna - 4 Minutes Timbaland: breakdown

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