Madonna book

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Madonna Louise Ciccone is known universally as the ‘Queen of Pop’, and with career record sales topping 300 million worldwide, she is acknowledged as the biggest selling female recording artist of all time. Indeed, in Billboard’s 2008 100 All-time Top Artists, she was ranked second only to the Beatles. During a 30-year career she has released 12 studio albums (plus numerous more compilations, live albums, soundtracks, remixes, EPs, and box sets). With each album she has consistently reinvented her music and image, pushing the boundaries both lyrically and in the form of elaborate and often sex-charged stage shows. But she is far more than just a ‘pop star’. With a career that has encompassed not just music but books, movies, fashion and humanitarian work, she has transcended the world of pop to become a global cultural icon and a role model to millions of women. Indeed, almost every successful female recording artist of the last 30 years – from Jennifer Lopez to Rihanna and, of course, Lady Gaga – cites her as a major influence.

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Madonna book by Caroline Sullivan (available on Amazon)

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21 Years ago “The Girlie Show”

Today it is already 21 years ago, that Madonna kick off her Girlie show in London.

After a few European, American and Canadian stops,

she went for the first time in her career to Israel, South America and Australia.

Hans was one of them that saw the world premier at the ‘Wembley Stadium’ to read his story here

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Madonna & Nicki Minaj Hang in New York: Is There a New Collaboration Coming?

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“We go Hard or we go Home,” the Queen of Pop informs her subjects.

Madonna has another star-who-might-be-working-on-the-new-album to her high-wattage Instagram feed, as Nicki Minaj popped up on Monday night (Sept. 22) to blow a kiss, and maybe swirl some more collaboration rumors.

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“We go Hard or we go Home we Gon Do this all night long! #werk” Madonna captioned the photo, while Minaj posted the photo to her own Instagram a few hours earlier. “My trip to New York isn’t the same unless I bump into the Queen. #BitchItsMadonna,” she wrote, suggesting that the photo was the result of a chance encounter… however, “Bitch, I’m Madonna” is the name of a rumored new track produced by Diplo, so maybe Minaj was in town to record a guest verse?

Madonna and Minaj, of course, collaborated on her 2012 single “Give Me All Your Luvin,’” and performed the song together at the Super Bowl halftime show that year. Minaj was the guest artist on the song who did NOT give the middle finger to hundreds of millions of viewers at the Super Bowl (that’d be M.I.A.).

Madonna’s follow-up to MDNA is due out in 2015, and there are already over a dozen rumored collaborators on the as-yet-untitled project.

(Jason Lipshutz / Billboard.com)

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Het genie achter Michael en Madonna op NPO Cultura

Hij is het best bewaarde geheim van Hollywood, het creatieve brein achter wereldberoemde dansmoves, muziekvideo’s en commercials: Vincent Paterson. Zijn baanbrekende choreografieën voor Michael Jackson en Madonna kent iedereen, maar zelf bleef hij bewust uit de schijnwerpers.

  Titel:Het genie achter Michael en Madonna
    Zender:NPO Cultura
    Datum:22 september 2014
    Uitzendtijd:22:10 – 23:05 uur
    Genre:Informatief

    Jaar van premiere:2013
    Regisseur:Kersti Grunditz
    Bijzonderheden:HD 1080i

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