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On the eve of Madonna’s sold-out, three-month North American tour, America Online, the world’s leading interactive services company, will be offering AOL members a “Madonna All-Access” pass for the ultimate look at her first U.S. tour in eight years. From previously unreleased photos and concert footage to music, videos and more, AOL Music will give fans a one-of-a-kind window on the MADONNA DROWNED WORLD TOUR 2001. The tour which features material selected from her current multi-platinum CD, MUSIC, as well as signature songs spanning the length of her incredible career already wowed European fans with Madonna’s costumes, her choreography and… Read more »

Madonna still rocks and rules the world of pop – her sold-out Drowned World tour has set fans alight and sparked rave reviews. On the first date of the global tour two weeks ago the “Material Mom” had a capacity crowd at Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi at her spike-heeled feet – and she delivered. From behind the cavorting bodies of dancers, the queen of pop glided onto the stage – hailed by critics as one of her most sophisticated yet. Flying through the air on trapeze wire, riding a mechanical bull and donning a punk-inspired kilt in honor of her… Read more »

Reuters reports that the publisher of a German website offering a ticket to a sold-out Madonna concert in exchange for sex was inundated by responses from around the world. According to Bernd Heusinger, publisher of Therma1, 120 readers sent in offers to bed members of his staff in return for a ticket to the concert taking place in Berlin later this week. The contest was ‘won’ by columnist Shelley Masters, one of the five men and two women on the site’s staff who had volunteered to participate in the sweepstakes. Reuters reports that a total of 90 men had sent… Read more »

By all accounts, Madonna’s first world tour in eight years kicked off with a roaring success in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday (June 10). The Material Girl continued the theme of her Scottish Highlands wedding by donning a Jean Paul Gaultier-designed kilt and sleeveless black top for the opening bars of the Drowned World Tour 2001 at the Palau Sant Jordi stadium, according to various media accounts. The 18,000-plus sold-out crowd of Spanish revelers was reportedly so loud throughout the 20-song, two-hour set that the noise drowned out the music itself, clocking in at over 120 decibels at one point, according… Read more »

Madonna is the latest jewel in the crown that has become HBO’s original music programming. The cable company, which has aired successful concerts by ‘N Sync, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Marc Anthony and numerous others will broadcast Madonna Live: The Drowned World Tour on August 26th. The broadcast will be Madonna’s third collaboration with HBO, having previously worked together in 1993 for Madonna Live Down Under: The Girlie Show and in 1990 on Madonna Live! Blonde Ambition World Tour 90, which was filmed in France. The Drowned World Tour, behind the release of her 2000 release, Music,… Read more »

Pop superstar Madonna may have found a British school for her baby son Rocco when he is a bit older – by dialing a wrong number. Madonna intended to ring the exclusive Cheltenham Ladies College in western England to talk about enrolling her four-year-old daughter Lourdes, but was accidentally put through to the similarly named Cheltenham College, newspapers reported on Tuesday. School porter Roger Northwood, who took the call, managed to persuade the singer that the private 600-pupil mixed college could suit eight-month-old Rocco when he is 10 years older. “Rocco’s obviously a bit young but Madonna is coming for… Read more »

Madonna’s Drowned World Tour keeps getting bigger, with the singer adding an extra date in each of the 12 U.S. cities she’s hitting, beginning with a July 22 date in Philadelphia. May 12 is the first on-sale date, for shows in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Oakland and Auburn Hills, Michigan. The Miami shows go on sale May 19, with the remainder of the tour on sale May 21. Ticket prices range from $45 to $250. Tour organizers promise a set list heavy with material from Madonna’s latest album, Music, as well as past hits such as “Ray of Light” and “Like… Read more »

Given her recent co-opting of the French house-music sound popularized by the likes of Les Rythmes Digitales, it should come as no surprise that Madonna has brought Digitales mastermind Jacques Lu Cont on board for her Drowned World tour. Lu Cont will be doing double duty on the tour as Madonna’s bassist and keyboard player, according to a publicist from his label, Astralwerks. The world tour kicks off June 5 in Cologne, Germany. Right now, he’s in Los Angeles with the rest of Madonna’s touring band, where they’re in the midst of a rigorous rehearsal schedule – 13 hours a… Read more »

A black satin conical bra that pop diva Madonna wore for her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour was auctioned off in London Thursday for 14,000 pounds ($20,000). The bra, which was designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier, had been expected to fetch up to 3,000 pounds ($4,000) at the pop-music sale at Christie’s auction house. The vendor had won the item in a radio competition after the tour. It was snapped up by a Chilean fashion museum. Ever-popular Beatles items also fetched high prices. A letter written by John Lennon to an Indian fan while he was studying meditation there fetched 9,400 pounds… Read more »

Madonna will now play six concerts in Britain after all tickets for what was to be her only British appearance sold out minutes after they went on sale Thursday. The Material Girl will perform at London’s Earl’s Court on July 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 in addition to her originally planned show at the venue on July 4, American Independence Day. Madonna fans camped out overnight to make sure they got tickets for the singer’s first public performance in Britain for seven years. Promoters said all 16,000 tickets for the first show had sold out within 15 minutes. Ticket… Read more »