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from Madonna.com :

We are happy to announce that Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Tour will stop at Valencia’s Circuito Ricardo Tormo Cheste on September 18.
Tickets will go on sale Friday, July 18th at 10AM local time.
A devoted Fan Club presale will start today, Wednesday, July 16th, at 2PM, LOCAL TIME.

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We are happy to confirm that French DJ Bob Sinclar will be the opening act for Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ shows in Paris on September 20 and 21.

After European hits such as ‘Feel For You’ and ‘The Beat Goes on’, back in the late 90’s, Sinclar also released the amazing ‘Love Generation’ and ‘World Hold On’ singles, which hit the top of the charts in most European countries.

Make sure to join him in September for some exclusive sets! While the September 20 show in Paris is sold out, a few tickets are still available for the September 21st one.

Meryl Streep has ended an almost two-decade-long myth suggesting she angrily attacked Madonna after missing out on the lead in movie musical EVITA, insisting she never said what was reported.
In a 1991 New York Times article, the Oscar winner allegedly savaged Madonna, stating she could “rip her throat out,” after the pop star landed Evita.
But Streep insists she would never have said such a thing.
She says, “That’s one of those things you can never erase from whatever it is, the Internet. Why would I say that?
“I was out of the running by the time they got the musical together.”

source : contactmusic

Madonna narrowly escaped a nasty attack yesterday when a rock was thrown at her vehicle.

Her car was driving through New York’s Central Park when a rock was thrown at the window from an overpass.

The singer and her children were not in the car at the time but the rear-side window was smashed in the incident.

Police were called to investigate the attack.

source : ok magazine

Entertainment Weekly inexplicably placed Madonna’s debut LP at #5 on its list of modern classics last month, aptly calling the eight post-disco, post-punk dance songs that comprise the record (six of which could be described as hits, depending on your definition of the word) “scrappy” but failing to acknowledge that Madonna (and Madonna) would likely have been forgotten along with jelly bracelets and headbands fashioned out of torn scarves had the album not been followed by at least a decade’s worth of some of the most captivating pop music ever recorded. Madonna herself even likened the album to music for aerobics classes and was eager to shack up with Chic’s Nile Rodgers and flex her creative muscle for her career-defining follow-up, Like a Virgin.

This summer, Madonna turns 25, but 2008 also marks the fifth anniversary of a wholly different Madonna album, one that couldn’t possibly be any further removed from that scrappy debut: American Life. You’d never even know the same artist made both records. Aside from “Holiday,” a song she didn’t write, Madonna seemed more interested in ruling the world than saving it back in 1983; two decades later, American Life found the pop singer at her most political, confrontational and, to many, abrasive. It was her first and, to date, only flop, scanning less than a million copies despite its platinum certification and sporting no hits besides the forward-thinking Bond theme “Die Another Day,” which cracked the Top 10 the previous fall and was–dubiously, at least it seemed at the time–tacked onto the track list in a move that ultimately insured that American Life wouldn’t be Madonna’s only hitless album.

As with almost every Madonna album, save for the first one, it’s nearly impossible to talk about the music without addressing the cultural and social context that produced it. Some have claimed that’s why the singer’s image and marketing has always been the focus of her career, at the cost of fairly assessing the actual music, but I think this fact only strengthens the case for Madonna as a true artist. Art without cultural context is like war without a political one. And this time around, politics and war itself played a pivotal role in the construction, marketing and ultimate perception and consumption (or lack thereof) of American Life–despite there being very little in the way of political commentary throughout the album. full article

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