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Composed and co-ordinated Madonna stepped back into the limelight today as she shrugged off her horse riding injury to return to work.
The 47-year-old even ensured she sported a stylish sling to match her thick black coat and boots on one of the hottest days of the year.
The star was on set at Shepperton Studios in west London where she is shooting a television commercial for Motorola.
Without a hair out of place the singer appeared to be making a remarkable recovery after falling from a galloping horse earlier this month.
She suffered three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand in the fall on the 1,200-acre estate at her country residence Ashcombe House in Tollard Royal, Wilts.
She had been celebrating her birthday with husband Guy Ritchie and children Lourdes, aged eight, and five-year-old Rocco.
Madonna was treated in the accident and emergency department of Salisbury Hospital before being released the same night.
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from Madonnalicious : The filming of the Motorola commercial has been taking place today at a studio in the UK and will continue tomorrow. Here is a snippet from the script prompts:
Open on a phone booth in a village in the mountain desert of the Middle East. A teenager is talking on the phone with his girlfriend. He's speaking a foreign language; so what he's saying is subtitled.
Madonna walks up and into the phone booth. She puts her hand on his cheek and kisses the teenager.
Madonna asks the teenager 'Who's that girl?'
We then hear his girlfriend's voice screaming through the receiver: 'Who's that girl?'
An instrumental version of Madonna's new single Hung Up will then play over the end of the commercial. Other stars will also be filming their own segments for the commercial.

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"I want people to jump out of their seats" Never one to understate, those were the exact words Madonna used to describe the songs on her upcoming album, -"Confessions On a Dance Floor". The 12 delicious tunes of pure 'unapologetic dance music' including the single "Hung Up" (out October 17th) is scheduled to be released on November 15th on Warner Bros. Records. This time out, the original Queen of Dance Music returns to where she began and kicks it up a few extra notches.
"It's in her blood" says Madonna's co-producer/partner in crime, DJ and Madonna musical director, Stuart Price. "She has a dance halo over her head. We made this record without any preconceived notions. It was straight from the gut - unencumbered -not over edited - very spontaneous, concluded Price.
If 'Confessions' were equated to a new dance step, it would a stunning blend of musical styles with one foot in the roots of early disco (a la Girogio Moroder/Abba on ecstacy) and the other foot gloriously ensconced in the future of music - a dance step that could only be accomplished by one artist.
Confessions on a Dance Floor is all about having a good time straight through and non stop." says America's ultimate Dancing Queen.
source : madonna.com

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... The foray into video began after Mr. Klein met Madonna in 2002 and agreed to photograph her for W. Those images became the genesis of X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS, an installation of combined images of video and still photography at Deitch Projects in SoHo in 2003.
Mr. Klein said he wanted to portray the singer not as a pop icon but as a performance artist. "I presented her with objects and ideas that had been important in her career: the wedding dress, the strip pole, the yogi, the queen, the bed," he said. He photographed Madonna on large elaborate sets while videotaping her for the Re-Invention tour videos. For the Deitch show, he said, "I worked in a way where I introduced one element at a time."
In one image, he used a still photograph of the singer lying on a small wooden table just to the left of a door, her left leg curled underneath her shoulder and around the back of her neck. To the right of the door was a poster of a kidney; Mr. Klein used computer animation to make the kidney pulsate. Then he overlaid the sound of gunshots. Black scuff marks on the door suggest violence.
"People are fixed either on still images or live action," he said. "I was interested in the space between the two," he said.
This month Mr. Klein photographed and videotaped Madonna on 12 elaborate sets for the cover of her next album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor." But as much as the photographer appreciates an iconic face, he likes to play with what the notion of who the subject is and isn't.
source : nytimes

They have been used to sell everything from washing powder to New Labour. But now it seems that even Madonna has woken up to the power of focus groups.
The most successful female artist in chart history has chosen songs for her next album after secretly trying them out on nightclubbers.
The tunes, with her distinctive vocals removed, were played in clubs from Liverpool to Ibiza throughout June. The reaction of the crowds were filmed and used by the 47-year-old mother of two to determine the final track listing for Confessions On A Dancefloor, her 10th studio album.
Details of the unorthodox track selection have been disclosed by Stuart Price, 28, the DJ and producer who is collaborating with Madonna on the record. Price, who is originally from Reading, revealed rock music's first flirtation with market research in an interview for the singer's official website. "Whenever I was DJ-ing I'd take dub or instrumental versions out with me and test them at the club that night," he said. "I had my camera with me and the next day I'd tell Madonna, 'This is what a thousand people in Liverpool look like dancing to our song' ."
He added: "You can work on a song for 12 hours but I guarantee you'll know within just 10 seconds of putting it on at a club whether it works or not. So these songs were tested on unwitting subjects throughout Europe."
The idea of Madonna seeking affirmation for her work before it has been released has surprised many in the worlds of advertising and music. After all, she has sold more than 175 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide.
Claire Beale, the editor of Campaign magazine, said the research could be seen as a crisis of confidence for someone normally known for their business acumen.
"This is a new one on me," she said. "In the advertising world, creative people tend to distrust focus groups precisely because they can undermine originality and bring everything down to the lowest common denominator.
"Having said that, people in the advertising industry are becoming increasingly reliant on them because there is a growing lack of confidence about what people want.
"Madonna is obviously running her material past a very niche audience rather than a focus group. But it still suggests she feels a need for endorsement. Like a lot of people who work in advertising she is far older than her target audience. She may feel this is a useful way of reconnecting with a younger generation."
Price, who also performs under the name Jacques Lu Cont, appears not to have told the clubs about the Madonna tracks.
Jezz Caldwell, promoter of The Barfly in Liverpool, where the DJ performed recently, said: "There is no time to chat, it is just music and dance."
Madonna, who has 16 albums to her name, believes that a return to her dancefloor roots will re-establish her as one of the world's most successful artists. Her last album, American Life, topped the charts in 14 countries including Britain and America, but ended up as her lowest-selling release, selling just four million copies worldwide. Too many ballads and the lack of any credible dance hits were cited as reasons why it failed to emulate the success of previous offerings such as Music, which sold 15 million copies when it was released in 2000.
Others in the music industry, however, are not convinced by the new approach. Paul Rees, the editor of Q music magazine, said: "It all depends how honest they have been with her. Have they just shown her the positive reaction from the clubs? Or have they said, 'Look Madonna, here is some film of one of our songs emptying a dancefloor?' I somehow doubt they will have done that."
Warner Music, Madonna's record label, is said to be delighted with the new album and has scheduled it for a November release. Hung Up will be the first single release from the CD.
Madonna, who sustained several broken bones after she fell from a horse two weeks ago, is expected to be fit enough to carry out promotional work for the release.
Her spokesman declined to comment further on the club sessions. A spokesman for Price also declined to give further details.
source : telegraph.co.uk

She bought a £9m country estate, decked herself out in tweeds and declared her fondness for shooting pheasants, but Madonna's bid to be lady of the manor has been thwarted by a birdwatcher.
Bill Oddie, the former Goodie and presenter of the successful Springwatch BBC series has been voted the face of rural England by more than 2,200 visitors to the Town & Country festival's website.
Perhaps surprisingly given her run-ins with ramblers and relatively recent conversion to country life, Madonna took second place, ahead of housewives' favourite Alan Titchmarsh. Otis Ferry, best-known for storming the Commons to protest against the hunting ban, finished fourth.
The list has been compiled by the Town & Country festival, which will entertain 100,000 people this weekend with alpacas, country crafts, morris dancing, vintage cars and motorbike stunts at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire.
Despite his passion for the countryside and defence of rural values, the Prince of Wales only came 18th as respondents plumped for more fashionable "country" figures, including the young royal Zara Phillips in 10th place. The presence of the outdoor action man Ray Mears as the sixth best-loved countryman and the country chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in seventh appear to show how important popular TV celebrities are in promoting countryside ideals.
But more traditional representatives of rural England still featured strongly, with Worzel Gummidge popping up in ninth. Despite controversy about his campaigns against windfarms, the environmentalist David Bellamy finished in fifth while Jack Sugden (the Emmerdale character) came in eighth.
The survey showed respondents' attachment to the rural idyll, with 75% declaring they would prefer to live in the country rather than the towns.
Helen Arnold of the festival said: "A few years ago, we would never have guessed that Madonna would make it to second place in a survey like this. It seems she is the queen of reinvention."
source : guardian

London theatre bosses are touting Madonna to reprise her film role of Argentina's first lady Eva Peron in a new production of Evita.
The Material Girl fought off a host of Hollywood actresses to play the glamorous wife of corrupt Argentine president Juan Peron in the 1996 film.
Previous plans to resurrect the musical in the British capital collapsed in 2003 when its authors Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber decided the city was not in the mood for serious musicals.
However, now the same creative team, comprising of director Michael Grandage, choreographer Rob Ashford and designer Christopher Oram, are in discussions to launch Evita in the West End next year (06), and hope Madonna will step into Peron's expensive shoes.
source : monstersandcritics.com

On November 7, the official Live 8 Live DVD, crammed with amazing performances by the biggest artists in the world "a who's who in music with exclusive rehearsal and unseen footage will be released.

Warner Music Group is preparing to launch a record label that would develop and market new artists and distribute their music only over the Internet.
The venture, tentatively referred to as an "e-label," is scheduled to be in operation by the end of this year.
Warner, home to artists like Madonna and Linkin Park, is hoping the label will enable the New York-based company to give emerging artists more time to develop without the traditional pressures of having to churn out a slate of hits.
"At this new label, an artist can develop in a supportive, lower-risk environment," Warner chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. said at an Aspen, Colo., gathering of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank. "An artist is not required to have enough material for an album, only just enough to excite our ears."
The e-label would also spare Warner the expense of distributing music in physical formats like CDs.
Instead of releasing a full album every couple of years, the e-label would release "clusters" of three or more songs by an artist every few months, Bronfman said.
Universal Music Group launched an all-digital record label last November. To date, UME Digital has about a dozen artists and has been selling their music over online retailers such as iTunes and Rhapsody.
source : ap

Spin magazine has built a veritable rock star Frankenstein, composed of Michael Stipe's skull, Elvis Presley's pelvis and Madonna's bellybutton.
Other body parts include Presley's hip-shaking pelvis and Gene Simmons' tongue. Madonna, shown here, tops the list.
Spin charts the 25 "most incredible" rock star body parts in its September issue, now on newsstands. Madonna's navel tops the list.
"It's what first marked her as a mainstream provocateur," senior Spin writer Marc Spitz writes.
At No. 2 is the liver of Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, which is so durable, Spitz writes, that "when Richards finally passes, they'll line the exterior of the space shuttle with his liver tissue."
REM singer Michael Stipe's oft-shaved skull comes in third, due to a hairline that's "not too high like Moby's or too low" like Sinead O'Connor's.
Other body parts include Presley's hip-shaking pelvis, Gene Simmons' tongue, Tina Turner's legs, 50 Cent's chest, Bruce Springsteen's butt and Tommy Lee's " well, you know, it's that body part below the waist.

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Madonna needs a body double for her new music video because it's too painful for her to dance.
Filming has been put back while Madge recovers from a broken hand, collarbone and cracked ribs she got from falling off a horse. Producers are considering hiring a lookalike to perform the rigorous dance routines planned for the promo of her new single Hung Up.
Madonna took a tumble while out riding on her 47th birthday last Tuesday. She had been doing promotional work for her new album Confessions on a Dancefloor, due out in November. But an insider said: "This is a club-friendly album, very dancey - and she wanted the video to reflect that. It hasn't been shot yet, so they've gone back to the drawing board to rethink it.
"Madonna's got her arm in a sling and her hand is plastered. She's not going to be dancing for a while."
source : mirror.co.uk

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie are being targeted to follow in the footsteps of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston - by starring in a reality TV show together.
Tracey Baker-Simmons, who serves as a producer on reality show Being Bobby Brown, now has her sights on filming the everyday exploits of the Material Girl and her British director spouse.
Baker-Simmons says, "I would really love to do Madonna and her husband. I really like her husband Guy Ritchie."
source : contactmusic

Madonna has been seeking spiritual comfort in her Kabbalah religion following her riding accident last week.
The Queen of Pop has been pictured visiting London's Kabbalah centre - the headquarters of the favourite religion to the stars.
Convinced her faith will speed up her recovery, Madonna has visited the centre three times in the last 24 hours and has flown over her spiritual advisor Michael Berg from LA.
However, Madonna has also fallen back on more conventional methods of healing in a bid to overcome her injuries.
The star has been sporting a rather fetching sling.
Madonna had been celebrating her birthday when she was thrown from her horse on Tuesday.
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Smiling through the pain with her arm in a sling, Madonna yesterday made her first appearance since her horrific horse fall.
The singer - wearing a tracksuit and baseball cap - was determined to show the world she is back on her feet after breaking three ribs, her hand and collarbone last week.
She put on a brave face as she left the Kabbalah Centre, base of the religious sect to which she belongs, in Central London with husband Guy Ritchie at 1.30pm. A waiting fan said: "It's not like Madge to sulk around in bed. She's now acquired that country-girl stiff upper lip and went out of her way to act as though nothing had happened."
Meanwhile the horse which threw her was in hiding last night - after Madonna had sent an SOS from her hospital bed to save it.
The Queen of Pop, thrown by the thoroughbred bay mare during her 47th birthday celebrations on Tuesday, was so worried the incident would give the animal a bad reputation she ordered neighbours to rush it into hiding away from her Wiltshire estate.
Una Harley, who lives next to Madonna's £9million country pile said: "She knows the horse was not to blame for what happened to her. It was an accident, pure and simple. It can be terrible when a horse gets an ill-deserved reputation for being trouble - so she sent a message that nobody was to reveal its name.
"The people who own it got it scurried away into stables and everyone in our community knows never to tell anyone what it was called.""
Una, 66, who runs a stables in the village, added: "It's delightful she has shown such concern for the poor horse, and it shows what a lovely person she is.
"Animals like these can be worth up to £500,000 - and although there may be some value in being the horse that Madonna fell off, if it got a reputation for being a danger its value could plummet."
source : sundaymirror.co.uk

Madonna, who pioneered the pointy bra on stage, has called in lawyers over a range of skimpy bras and briefs adorned with her name and face.
As she convalesces at home this weekend after falling from a horse on her Wiltshire estate, they are gathering evidence for possible legal action.
The lingerie range, Madonna Nude 1979, will be launched in Britain in November by Figleaves.com, an internet lingerie retailer.
It has been created by Rosanna Ansaloni, a Milan designer, and according to the UK retailers, is based on naked pictures of Madonna taken by Martin Schreiber, an American photographer, in 1979.
Diana Whitehead, communications manager at Figleaves.com, said that although the design was called Nude 1979, it had been adapted to reflect the singer's 1980s look.
"This lingerie is misleading the public because Madonna is in no way affiliated with it,"? said Liz Rosenberg, a spokeswoman for Madonna in New York. "Her attorneys are starting to gather information now because a line of lingerie is implying that Madonna is associated with it, and that could not be further from the truth."?
This is not the first time Madonna has tried to crack down on use of the Schreiber pictures. In 2001, her lawyers unsuccessfully attempted to stop Adam Glickman, an American condom salesman, from producing a range of contraceptives using the same images. Last week, Glickman said he had sold "hundreds of thousands"? of the condoms since his clash with the singer, but would be discontinuing the line next month because of falling demand.
The underwear, which will be made by Pielle " an Italian lingerie manufacturer, features transparent pants decorated with tickly ribbons and crystals. Items included in the range, which have names such as Love Healing and Sensuality, also include what figleaves.com calls "a super sexy shiny satin baby doll with detachable garter belt"?.
T-shirts are printed with a motif of Madonna's face and a crucifix necklace on the front and back. The knickers are embellished with the rock star's initial in crystals.
The range for men includes black lace Y-fronts and "micro-fibre"? briefs bearing Madonna's name. Prices for women's items are £70 for a bra and £30 for knickers. Pants in the men's collection will cost £40.
Whitehead added: "The range is really high end " it's not something that has been produced quite cheaply with a logo slapped on it. The quality of the fabric is beautiful " there is a whole design ethos that has been put into it.
"We are aiming for women who want an aspirational take on underwear. They love celebrity, they love the link with the underwear and it is a way of buying into that person's lifestyle."?
Neither Ansaloni nor Pielle could be reached for comment this weekend.
A number of female stars, including Kylie Minogue, Elizabeth Hurley and Elle Macpherson, have launched lucrative underwear ranges but Madonna, long known for her keen business sense, will not receive a penny from the range bearing her name.
She was an unknown dancer when the nude photos were taken. She was paid $30 (£16.70) for the three-hour photo session with Schreiber and she signed over the rights to the photos, a decision she has come to regret.
The underwear uses the images to hark back to a stage in Madonna's career when she was happy to flaunt herself.
She wore conical bras over her clothes on stage, simulated masturbation while singing and writhed around with scantily clad male dancers.
Three decades later and with a fortune of about £235m, she has put the raunchiness behind her and nurtured her new persona as a jodhpur-wearing English country lady.
In the August edition of American Vogue she was photographed tending chickens on an immaculate lawn and relaxing in front of a collection of pony club rosettes.
Her love for her new life was tested last Tuesday when she fell from her horse while riding with a groom through the 1,200 acres surrounding Ashcombe House near Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, where she lives with her British husband, Guy Ritchie.
The mare was a present from Ritchie for her 47th birthday, the day she fell off. She was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken collarbone.
source : timesonline.co.uk

What does a megastar need when she's under the weather? Why, a little ego-stroking, of course...
And Madonna's pals have been doing just that since the singer fell off her horse this week.
Stuart Price, who produced her new album Confessions On A Dancefloor, sent snaps of fans dancing to her tunes in Ibiza to cheer her up.
A spy says: "Stuart DJ'd at Thursdays at Space and played some tracks.
"The floor went wild so he sent some pics on his phone to her saying: 'Here's 1,000 people going mad to your tune!' She loved it." Well, it sure beats grapes...
source : mirror.co.uk

Pop star Madonna has vowed a return to horseriding as soon as she recovers from a fall that left her with several broken bones. The singer said she was "grateful and overwhelmed by everyone's good wishes" since the accident on Tuesday.
"As soon as doctors give me the okay, I expect to be right back on a horse and riding again," the 47-year-old singer told The Sun newspaper. Madonna fell from her horse on the grounds of her West Country estate.
The horse was a birthday present given to her that day by film director husband Guy Ritchie.
The singer, who is planning to release a new album in November, is recovering from her injuries at Ashcombe house, on the border of Wiltshire and Dorset.
Madonna's UK spokeswoman, Barbara Charone, said the accident would not delay the new album's release.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie bought Ashcombe House in 2001
"Her LP is finished and is on course to come out in November with a single prior," she told the BBC News website. The pop star is also planning to go on tour next summer.
Madonna sustained three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a fractured hand after falling from her horse.
She was treated in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
The musician's US spokeswoman Liz Rozenberg said she had been riding for four of five months and spent "a lot of time" horseriding while in the country.

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Hot on the heels of Madonna's horse riding accident this week at her English country estate come more details about her new club-friendly album.
Confessions On A Dancefloor, due Nov. 15, sees Madge working closely with her British keyboardist Stuart Price -- from her last two tours -- who also goes by DJ Jacques Lu Cont at night, reports Rolling Stone.
R.S. says Madonna approached Price after last year's Re-Invention Tour when she began working on a music-driven screenplay and brought him on board to create a sound she calls "future disco."
"We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff," Price told R.S. "The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day."
Then Price says at night he would test out the tracks at his club gigs.
"Whenever I was DJing, I'd take dub or instrumental versions out with me. I had my camera with me, and the next day I'd tell Madonna, 'This is what a thousand people in Liverpool looked like last night dancing to our song.' "
Confessions is Madonna's tenth studio album and the followup to 2003's American Life.
The first single is the uptempo synth-disco jam Hung Up.
source : canoe.ca

After sustaining several broken bones on Tuesday in a horseback-riding accident at her country estate in Ashcombe, just outside London, Madonna is "not feeling too bad and is recovering well," her spokesperson Liz Rosenberg told MTV News.
The singer, who turned 47 on Tuesday, was rushed to the nearby Salisbury District Hospital, where she was treated for three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand. Rosenberg said that Madonna took a spill while riding a horse she was unaccustomed to.
"The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday," she told The Associated Press. "She's walking and talking, [but] I don't know if she's going to be hanging from a disco ball anytime soon."
Madonna's husband, director Guy Ritchie, drove her to the hospital, which released her Tuesday night.
While Madonna's required recovery period is as yet undetermined, her record label does not anticipate any delays in the release or promotional activities for her forthcoming album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, due November 15. The album is "very, very close to completion," Rosenberg said.
source : mtvasia

British film-maker Guy Ritchie is looking for a new star to light up the premiere of his new movie Revolver, because his wife Madonna's horse-riding accident has forced her to pull out. Ritchie had recruited the Like a Virgin singer to take part in a poker match at the after party for next month's exclusive screening of the gambling film.
But Madonna's injuries, which include a broken hand, collar bone and three cracked ribs, are too severe for her to participate. A source tells British newspaper The Independent, "An online poker firm wanted to sponsor a celebrity card table at the premiere of Revolver. "It would have been a cracking photo opportunity, but Madonna will do well to turn up at all now - let alone play poker."
source : contactmusic

Madonna was recovering at home on Wednesday after suffering several broken bones in a riding accident at her country estate, her spokeswoman said. "She is recovering at home," Barbara Charone said. "We don't have any other update at this stage."
The singer was rushed to a local hospital in Salisbury by film director Ritchie yesterday and later discharged. She is due to release her new album "Confessions on a Dancefloor" in November. Charone said she did not expect Madonna's injuries, which will take weeks to heal, to affect the launch or promotion of the record. "As far as I know, nothing's been affected," Charone said.
source: yahoonews

New York - Madonna's 47th birthday celebration was marred when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country home outside London, her publicist told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The superstar was hospitalized with three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand, according to Liz Rosenberg, her spokeswoman based in New York. The accident occurred Tuesday at Ashcombe house, her estate outside of London. Madonna and an assistant were riding horses, when Madonna, on a new horse she wasn't accustomed to riding, took a tumble. Her children, Rocco and Lourdes, were at the home but were not with their mother at the time, Rosenberg said.
"The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday," Rosenberg said.
Her husband, director Guy Ritchie, took Madonna to an undisclosed hospital, where she was treated. Rosenberg said the entertainer was expected to be released later in the evening.
source : yahoonews

It has been reported today that Madonna has turned down a multi-million dollar deal to star in her own Las Vegas show.
Madge reportedly turned down a massive $82 million to appear in a show at a leading Las Vegas casinowell that's just peanuts to her innit?
According to the New York Post, the offer came from Jack Wishna, one of the biggest players on the strip.
Being in your own show in Vegas is seen by many in the industry as the grave yard of stars, not that that should worry the sprightly Ms Ciccone who celebrates her 47th birthday today.
Madonna's new album "˜Confessions On A Dancefloor' is scheduled for release in November.
source : gigwise.com

Hue's that girl? It's Madonna of course, in new shades and an even newer hair shade - ginger.
The star, 47 today, showed off her latest look as she left a kabbalah class and proved a head turner in more ways than one.
Mind you, if she was trying to hide it under that headgear she wasn't doing too good a job.
One onlooker in Beverly Hills said: "Despite the beret, Madonna's new hair colour certainly caught people's attention.
"It's very different from anything she's had in the past, but it looks really good on her. Her fans will be pleasantly surprised."
The mum-of-two does tend to let her fondness for revamping her image from head to foot go, well, to her head.
Since her first hit more than 20 years ago, her bonce has at various times been black, brunette, purple, platinum blonde, most recently strawberry blonde... and now she's a redhead.
Not to mention her insisting that kabbalah chums refer to her as Esther.
No surprises then that she called last year's series of worldwide gigs The Reinvention Tour.
Perhaps it's time she re-released her old James Bond soundtrack hit...as Dye Another Day.
source : mirror.co.uk

Madonna was photographed leaving the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles yesterday sporting a red tint in her hair. Madonna is believed to have completed the album photoshoot last week, so this may mean we will see a red-headed woman on the cover of Confessions On A Dancefloor!

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Pop queen Madonna has teamed up with producer Stuart Price to create a brand new sound for her upcoming album Confessions on a Dancefloor.
The so-called queen of reinvention believes working closely with the musician has spawned a catchy style she calls "future disco", which is set to rock the club scene when it hits shelves later this year (NOV05).
And the pair found each other so inspiring, they simply couldn't stop writing songs.
Price says, "We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff.
"The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day.
"Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don't know why, but there is something magical in it. That's what we were trying to make."
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Veteran rocker Elvis Costello has dismissed the talents of Madonna, insisting she makes a convincing performer but has a limited range as a musician.
The outspoken Oliver's Army star, 50, admits the pop queen can dance well enough, but she is less in control when she starts singing.
He says, "Madonna's a dancer, not a singer.
"She's a very good song and dance woman, but it's about the whole package and what you can persuade people to believe."
source : contactmusic

Bass guitarist Guy Pratt has backed some of the world's biggest rock acts, and his comedy routine at the Edinburgh Fringe presents a cast of famous characters whose behavior borders on the bizarre.
The bassist for hire with a sardonic take on the rock scene said of Madonna:
"She was incredibly musical and could talk to musicians in terms they could understand as opposed to Tina Turner, who would say things like 'Could you make it more purple?"'
Pratt, who worked with Madonna on her "Like a Prayer" album, portrays her almost as a cartoon character with a real scream of a speaking voice.
"She does have one of those voices at New York waitress frequency 'You want coffee with that?' It is the sort of thing that goes right through," he told Reuters.
source : reuters

Madonna is returning to her roots with the club-friendly Confessions on a Dancefloor, due November 15th. For her tenth studio album, the follow-up to 2003's American Life, the pop legend worked closely with British producer Stuart Price (a.k.a. DJ Jacques Lu Cont) at his London apartment.
Price met Madonna later in her career, playing keyboards on her last two tours -- "I was a bit too young to be a fan in the Eighties," he says, laughing. She approached him after last year's Re-Invention Tour, when she began work on a music-driven screenplay, bringing him onboard to create a sound she called "future disco." The idea for Confessions came from those sessions.
"We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff," Price says. "The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day."
At night, the producer would test out the tracks during his club gigs. "Whenever I was DJ'ing, I'd take dub or instrumental versions out with me," Price says. "I had my camera with me, and the next day I'd tell Madonna, 'This is what a thousand people in Liverpool looked like last night dancing to our song.' You can work on a song for twelve hours, but I guarantee you'll know within the first ten seconds of putting it on at a club whether it works or not. So these songs were tested on unwitting subjects throughout Europe."
But Price insists that he and Madonna did not blindly trust the club scene, wanting to create something more lasting. "There's a bit of a danger with dance music that you can create something that's cool but doesn't have much substance to it," he admits. "Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don't know why, but there is something magical in it. That's what we were trying to make."
The first single is the uptempo synth-disco jam "Hung Up," which Price calls "a big feel-good song. You put it on and you want to get in your car, turn it up and drive around smiling."
source : rollingstone
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DJ Tracy Young's compilation "Danceculture" featuring exclusive remix of Madonna's Easy Ride was released today.
Tracklisting :
1. Let The Rhythm - (with Cytric, featuring Kieran)
2. I Believe - (Tracy And Gomi's Spiritual Dub, with Chaka Khan)
3. Beats And The Drums, The - (D-Formation BF's remix, with David Lara)
4. Easy Ride - (Tracy Young And Giangi Cappal's Easy remix, with Madonna)
5. Bass Drive, The - (with Roman Lieske)
6. Alone - (with Offer Nissim, featuring Maya)
7. You Used To Hold Me - (Giangi Cappal Vocal mix, with Ralphi Rosario, featuring Xaviera Gold)
8. New Love (Violets) - (with FC Nond Project)
9. El Mensaje - (The Messenger mix, with William Umana)
10. Home - (Offer Nissim mix, Part 1, with Suzanne Palmer)
11. World Is A Stage, The - (Tracy Young's Operatic remix, with Terry Barber)
12. Shelter Me - (Stryke's Drum Loop, with Stryke)
13. Walk On By - (Tracy Young's Losing You remix, with Cyndi Lauper)

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8. Madonna - "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985)
Every woman had thought about it: Why can't I wear this bra in public? I wear a bikini to the beach. OK, well not every woman, but it was one Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone who made the thought a reality and much more mainstream than worried fathers would have liked. As the downtown urchin Susan in Susan Seidelman's modern screwball comedy, "Desperately Seeking Susan," Madonna wore her clothes -- from black dresses paired with leggings to men's pants with exposed lacy bras to rolled-down, rhinestone boots to even men's boxers. And, of course, beads, crosses, bracelets and all that obvious bleached-out hair. Madonna was so ultra-sexy and daring, it's not even necessary to point out what a sensation she became, since an entire phrase was coined for her legions of imitators: "Madonna-wanna-be."

Full List :
1. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
3. Marlon Brando - The Wild One
4. Brigitte Bardot - ... And God Created Woman
5. Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
6. Everyone -Blow-Up
7. John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
8. Madonna - Desperately Seeking Susan
9. The Misters - Reservoir Dogs
10. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
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British designer Matthew Williamson was so star-struck when he met Madonna he had to take a walk to calm down.
The flamboyant style guru regularly creates clothes for celebrities like Sienna Miller and R&B beauty Kelis, but became a starstruck mute in the presence of the queen of pop.
And he was surprised to discover she is much milder than her fearsome reputation lead him to believe.
He says, "I went to dinner with Madonna at Le Caprice (London restaurant) and I was s**ting myself. I had to walk round the block to get my bearings.
"Afterwards she took me to a private screening of Angela's Ashes. I was touching her knees !
"She is not this brazen, crazy, over-bearing character. She's diminutive, laid back but in control, very sharp. And, she remembers everything."
source : contactmusic
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TV host Jonathan Ross is perceived to have the happiest home life of all.
Chef Jamie Oliver's family came second in the happy stakes, followed by footballer Jamie Redknapp, his singer wife Louise and their baby son.
The Beckhams were tenth in the survey of 2,000 Britons, with only one family set-up thought to be more fiery, that of the fictional Slaters in EastEnders.
TV cartoon The Simpsons came fourth, followed by TV chat show hosts Richard and Judy.
The Osbournes, famous for their bust-ups on their MTV show, came sixth ranking above newlyweds Prince Charles and Camilla and the Blairs.
Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are ninth in the poll, which was carried out for Norwich Union.
1. Jonathan Ross 29.3%
2. Jamie Oliver 21.7%
3. Jamie Redknapp 12%
4. The Simpsons 10.8%
5. Richard and Judy 9.7%
6. The Osbournes 5.1%
7. Prince Charles and Camilla 3.4%
8. The Blairs 2%
9. Madonna and Guy Ritchie 2%
10. The Beckhams 1.2%
11. The Slaters (EastEnders) 0.7%
12. Other
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Want to see Madonna with bright pink hair? A forthcoming photo book called "Maripolarama" features Polaroids taken in New York's Lower East Side during the early '80s of the scene's emerging artists " including the future Material Girl as well as Debbie Harry, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Grace Jones, Sade, Naomi Campbell, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Klaus Nomi, Vincent Gallo and even David Lee Roth. Designer Anna Sui wrote an essay for the collection, due in November. ... Another trip down memory lane is in store with the book "Where They Were at 22," which profiles celebs such as P. Diddy, Pam Anderson, Bill Murray and even Karl Rove and shows where they were at this turning-point age. The essays will be compiled by Court TV editor Brad Dunn for publication next spring. source : mtv

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Seymour Stein co-founded Sire Records in 1966. His philosophy then is his philosophy now: Find good artists with good songs. That simple directive helped Sire build a roster that has featured the likes of Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, the Pretenders, the Smiths, My Bloody Valentine and k.d. lang. With the three-CD, one-DVD box set Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story (due September 13th), Stein -- who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year -- chronicles his label's storied history.
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What was your first meeting with Madonna like?
There was this great DJ, Mark Kamins, who I would follow around to whatever club he was playing. He wanted to become a producer, and I said, "Look, I could introduce you to some of my artists, but you have no track record so they're not going to want to work with you. You better go out and find the acts yourself." So I gave him some money, a budget enough to make six demos by six different acts. And the third or fourth thing he brought me was Madonna. I was in the hospital at the time, and I had an infection. It was not life-threatening or anything, but I had to stay in the hospital and be on a penicillin drip. When I heard Madonna's demo that he made of "Everybody" I got so excited, I said, "I want to sign her right away. I want you to bring her to the hospital." He said, "I can do it tonight. She really wants to get signed." I got off the phone, and I looked at myself in the mirror. I was wearing the hospital garb, with the slit up my ass, and I needed a haircut, a shave and a good shower. I got a barber to come cut my hair, and I got my secretary to come with a pair of pajamas and a bathrobe. I wanted her to look at somebody who she thought would be around for a few years to help guide her career -- not somebody who was in hospital on the way out. I managed to get it all together by the time she got there. But, to my amazement and disappointment, as anxious as I was to sign her, she was just as anxious to jumpstart her career. If I was lying in a coffin on top of the bed and could get my hand out to sign a contract, she would have been happy. I'm glad I made a presentable appearance, but it was absolutely unnecessary.
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Word has it that a Sri Lankan group called the United Artists of Sri Lanka is in talks with the Indian Performing Rights Society to bring down Western artists of the calibre of Madonna, Sir Elton John and Ricky Martin for an event that is aimed at giving musicians from all over Asia -- in this case Indian musicians -- a platform to meet Western artists.
The idea is "to give Indian music a boost and a wider reach," says US-based Sri Lankan Asoka Gunawardena, a member of the United Artists of Sri Lanka who was recently down in Mumbai on a business trip. "People all over Asia can name a litany of Western stars. But if you go to a kid in America and ask them whether they've heard of composers from here, no one really knows about anything apart from the odd bhangra track. Hopefully this will go towards changing that equation more in our favour," continues Asoka.
He met up with Rakesh Nigam of the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) for this purpose. "He wanted to bring down artists composers, artists and musicians from all over Asia for an event over here, perhaps a benefit concert or some kind of a quasi-cultural ceremony. Things are in its infancy, but we have a firm plan in place, it can be done as it's a good idea," ends Rakesh.
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Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri is impressed by Madonna's directness when she wants to get to know somebody, because she simply phones them.
The Ray Of Light superstar hates relying on celebrity parties to meet new pals - she prefers to invite stars she has admired from afar to an evening of fine cuisine and conversation, and Spiteri was on her list.
Spiteri recalls, "Madonna just rang up and said, 'Do you want to come to dinner?' and it was either a yes or a no and I said, 'Yes.'
"That's just an easier way for her to meet people she thinks she might want to meet because there is always such a fuss around her when she is in a public place.
"I enjoy her company, her conversation. She's lovely."
source : contactmusic
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A few weeks ago Madonna.com reported that Hung Up is going to be the first single off the new album. We are now happy to tell you that Hung Up will debut at radio on October 17th!
Not only that, but Madonna.com is pleased to announce the release date for Madonna's new All Dance Album. Madonna fans all over the world can rejoice, because the album release date is currently scheduled for November 15, 2005! Put your dancing shoes on and plan a date with your best friends to the clubs, because October & November are going to rule!
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Who are the happiest music executives in the land these days? The big guys at Warner Records. All who have heard Madonna's coming CD, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," have been blown away. (Including WR's movie-star handsome CEO Tom Whalley.) "Confessions" is entirely a dance-driven pop disc. No message. No ballads. All fun. These days M seems serene as the chatelaine of an English manor, feeding the chickens, riding, tending to her children, etc. (She, her home and her kids are gorgeous in Vogue for August.)
But the once-shocking icon can still get into the groove. And she wants her fans to know it. The album hits stores in November
source : drownedmadonna/nypost
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Madonna might have climbed into John Galliano and Alexander McQueen dresses and Louis Vuitton suits to appear in the current issue of US Vogue, but there is one London-based designer who is really celebrating the article. "I dreamed of Madonna wearing my clothes ever since I was a little girl," says Brazilian Daniella Issa Helayel, who designed the flying duck-printed blouse that Madge wore to be interviewed by Hamish Bowles. "Even before I became a designer, I always wanted to make clothes for Madonna." With Issa dresses spreading like wild fire through A-list wardrobes (Keira Knightley, the Minogue sisters and Paris Hilton are all fans, Camilla Al Fayed is Daniella's new muse and Sharon Stone has apparently acquired no less than eight dresses for her forthcoming Basic Instinct 2 publicity tour), Daniella has been working on a line of bags and shoes to accessorise them. And after piling the fashion crowd into Annabel's last season, she's planning one of London Fashion Week's biggest dos at the hip new Dover Street venue, Automat, in September.
source : vogue.co.uk
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Madonna's new single, Hung Up, will be released on November 7.
The track is taken from Madonna's new album, Confessions On A Dancefloor, expected a week later.
Hung Up has been produced by Stuart Price, aka Jacques Lu Cont, the musical director on the Material Girl's 2004 Re-Invention Tour.
A DVD of onstage and behind-the-scenes footage of that tour is also due later in the year.
source : flava.co.uk
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