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But how does this relate to next month's long-anticipated DVD release of 1985's Live Aid benefit concert, let alone to Elton John's recent attack on Madonna?
Glad you asked.
Sir Elton, as he is known in his homeland, was quick to blast Madonna earlier this month at the annual Q Awards show in London.
"Madonna - best (expletive) live act?" he sputtered. "(Expletive) off. Since when has lip-syncing been live? Anyone who lip-syncs in public on stage when you pay (about $169 per ticket) to see them should be shot."
John, who was apparently unaware that some tickets for Madonna's recent tour cost up to $800 each, then quipped that he would be booted off her Christmas card list: "But do I give a toss? No."
Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, responded: "Madonna does not lip-sync, nor does she spend her time trashing other artists. She sang every note of her Re-Invention tour live and is not ashamed that she was paid well for her hard work."
Eager to help out, Madonna's actor friend, Rupert Everett, came to her defense, in a manner. "Madonna sings everything she can sing," Rupert told reporters in England. "But, if she goes into a dance routine, she's got to dance; you can't breathe and dance and sing at the same time."
Since Madonna danced through the majority of songs on her Re-Invention tour, which bypassed San Diego, Everett's comments don't exactly bolster the case for her singing live. (For the record, James Brown, Tina Turner and many other gifted artists are living proof that you can simultaneously sing and dance - if you're talented enough).
It's no secret that Madonna has lip-synced for years, most notoriously on her Blonde Ambition tour of 1990, which found her talented six-man band miming at least some of its parts as well.
But a flat, hopelessly out-of-tune Madonna did sing live during her mini-performance at Live Aid in 1984. Barring a last-minute change, her unaltered vocals on "Holiday" and "Into the Groove" are scheduled to be included the four-DVD Live Aid release, which is due for release Nov. 10 on Warner Vision International.
Madonna's unadorned singing was so shrill that even Pop Scene - which has long condemned lip-syncing performers - believes Live Aid would have benefited had Madonna not sung live.
That all-star benefit, as you may recall, was spearheaded by Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof to raise money for African famine victims. Held at London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's JFK Stadium, the marathon Live Aid concerts raised about $120 million, thanks to worldwide TV coverage, viewer donations and performances by U2, Queen, Sting, the Who, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Madonna pal Elton John, the Pretenders and many more.
Other artists included Paul McCartney. But the former Beatle was so unhappy with his London Live Aid performance of "Let It Be" that he insisted on recording his vocals anew for the DVD. The reason, ironically, is that McCartney's microphone went dead for the start of the song, which made it appear that - unlike Madonna a continent away - he was lip-syncing.
Conversely, Led Zeppelin has decided that its Philadelphia Live Aid reunion is beyond repair. Guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist John Paul Jones recently issued a release describing their performance (which featured both Phil Collins and Chic's Tony Thompson subbing on drums for the deceased John Bohnam) as "substandard."
To compensate for their absence from the DVD, Plant and Page will donate proceeds from their upcoming DVD, "No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded" (due out Oct. 26), to the Band Aid Trust.
Jones, meanwhile, is giving to the trust his earnings from his recent North American tour with Mutual Admiration Society, the ad-hoc band that teamed him with the three members of San Diego's Nickel Creek, ex-Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips and veteran Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas. That tour, like so many others, also bypassed San Diego.
Giving Madonna a run for her money in the most out-of-tune performance of the day competition was the mangled-up-in-blue acoustic mini-set by Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, who stumbled through "Ballad of Hollis Brown," "When the Ship Comes In" and "Blowin' in the Wind" (the only song to be included on the DVD).
Curiously absent are any of the Live Aid performances by a number of performers, including Santana, Pat Metheny and Run DMC, who were the event's sole hip-hop act. As for Madonna and Elton John, speculation that they will team up for a remake of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," John's disco-tinged 1976 duet with Kiki Dee, is unfounded.
For the record, John's recent acerbic remarks about Madonna's lip-syncing aren't the first time he's dissed the Material Mom.
In 2002, he blasted her performance of "Die Another Day," the theme song to the James Bond film of the same name. "It hasn't got a tune," he charged at the time. "James Bond themes are usually very camp and this one's different. It is the worst Bond tune of all time."
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