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If you didn’t find tickets to the first London and Manchester shows, we’re happy to announce that Madonna will perform a second show at London’s O2 Arena on July 5th, 2009 and at Manchester’s MEN Arena on July 8th, 2009!

A devoted pre sale for both shows will start on February 10th at 10am LOCAL TIME for legacy members and at Noon LOCAL TIME for newer members.

Please note that the public ticket sale for both shows will start on February 12th at 9am Local Time.

source : madonna.com

Photos of Madonna getting hot and sticky with four Brazilian boy toys are about to hit newsstands.

Even as Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez battles allegations of steroid use, W magazine will debut a 45-page spread in which the kabbalah vixen of his dreams can be seen simulating (at least we think she’s simulating) sex with a quartet of hunks.

The biggest slice of beefcake in the spread is 22-year-old Ford model Jesus Luz, who’s rumored to have replaced A-Rod as Madonna’s main muscleman.

The layout, shot by top fashion photographer Steven Klein, shows Her Madgesty, 50, half-naked in black lingerie, straddling one stud on a hotel bed while being attended by three other pleasure-givers, one of whom barely conceals his manhood with a towel.

Although not as explicit as her X-rated 1992 book, “Sex,” the shoot marks Madonna’s return to the sort of arty raunch she abandoned when she married British director Guy Ritchie and took on the airs of an English countrywoman.

The W portfolio, headlined “Blame it On Rio,” gives prominent play to Luz, who reportedly accompanied Madonna to the Maldives in December. Last week, he was seen with her in New York, where he’s said to have dined with the Material Mom and her children.
Asked about the nature of Madonna’s relationship with Luz, her rep, Liz Rosenberg, said, “I’m told they’re kind of friends.”

source : nydailynews

Tickets for Madonna’s concert, scheduled for July 11 in Werchter, were sold out on Saturday. The sale started at 09am. Tele Ticket Service and Proximus Go For Music, managing the sales, have encountered some technical problems because of the huge number of people on their website. The situation has normalized Saturday afternoon and the servers were able to function at full capacity. The 65,000 tickets available have been sold.

source : rtlinfo.be
thanks to Didier

Madonna with David at the Kabbalah centre in New York (February 07 2009)

Madonna with Guy and her kids at the Kabbalah centre in New York (February 06 2009)

Both UK dates on Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet world tour have sold out.

Tickets to the gigs, at London’s 02 Arena on 4 July and Manchester’s MEN Arena on 7 July, were snapped up by fans just minutes after going on sale.

The tour, to promote her album Hard Candy, is the biggest grossing in history for a solo artist.

source : bbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUeT1-ojEFk

chosen by American Photography Magazine :

Madonna has worked with a handful of photographers throughout her career to create a carefully calculated collection of iconography. Early on she collaborated with Herb Ritts, who polished her photographic image to a high sheen, establishing Madonna as a force in culture and fashion. Over the years, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, and others helped her shape-shift her identity, always being careful to place her persona just outside the bounds of middle-class tastes but close enough so that her every move could be witnessed by her followers. Such is her genius. Her most notable — and most interesting — work has been done with Steven Meisel, who photographed her for the cover of her 1984 album, Like a Virgin, and for a series of projects in the early 1990s. The most infamous of those was the 1992 book, Sex, made at the moment when Madonna’s persona was veering from neo-punk to neo-Marquis de Sade.

Reuniting for the cover of Vanity Fair’s May 2008 Green Issue, the pair updated Madonna’s cultural status once again, turning the 49-year-old soon-to-be single mother into a lingerie-clad warrior, guarding the globe through the sheer power of her sexuality. In Meisel’s beautifully rendered pictures, the Material Girl becomes an Earth MILF, demonstrating again the power of imagery to create seductive fantasy. Environmentalism aside, the issue coincided with the release of Madonna’s Hard Candy album, and readers were invited to explore the hardworking entertainer’s personal high-wire act.

Madonna, Paul Oakenfold Estadio do Morumbi – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Dec. 18, 20-21, 2008
$15,462,185
196,656 / 196,656
3 / 3
$252.10, $67.23
Live Nation Global Touring/T4F-Time For Fun

Madonna, Paul Oakenfold Estadio do Maracana – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Dec. 14-15, 2008
$7,322,269
107,000 / 107,000
2 / 2
$252.10, $75.63
Live Nation Global Touring/T4F-Time For Fun

Madonna is nominated for the ‘Best Pop Dance Track’ (4 minutes) and ‘Best Solo Artist’ awards at this year’s International Dance Music Awards ceremony, which will take place during the Winter Music Conference in Miami from March 24 to March 28, 2009.

Vote at wintermusicconference.com (registration required)

source: madonna.com