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On Stage With Madonna

On Stage With Madonna

Folha de S.Paulo -the largest circulation newspaper of Brazil – has published a special report this week about Madonna’s amazing touring career. It was written and designed by Renato Barreto and his husband Alex Kidd, who is also a big fan. Read More

30 Years Ago Today: Live Aid

Thirty years ago today, on July 13, 1985, from the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to the Wembley Stadium in London, England, the world experienced what a 16-hour music show live via satellite is like.

The Live Aid benefit concert was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to support the starving people of Ethiopia and set a milestone for the music generation of the 80’s. To many, it also helped giving a face – and a body – to a female artist who had just started to set the world on fire. Read More

Stadio Flaminio

Basta Per Favore!

25 years ago in July, Madonna was touring Europe with her most famous show ever, the Blond Ambition Tour, a show that generated excitment, and controversy all over the world. Those amazing days were then captured on film by director Alek Keshishian in the Truth or Dare documentary.

On July 10th, 1990 Madonna brought her Blond Ambition Tour to the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, Italy.

The show was welcomed by an extra dose of controversy in Italy, with a criticism to which Madonna responded with the now-famous “Vatican speech” she addressed the press with when she had just landed in Rome’s Ciampino airport. 25 years later, many things have changed, but many also haven’t at all. Read More

Madonna with Jonas Akerlund

Jonas Akerlund reflects on greatest collaborations with Madonna

Director Jonas Akerlund has worked with Madonna on some of her most iconic music videos, bringing Ray of Light, American Life and Music to life. After he ​shared behind-the-scenes stories from her most recent video, Bitch I’m Madonna, Akerlund gave EW the inside scoop on what it was like to put together the rest of their greatest collaborations. Read More

Jean Paul Gaultier

Madonna on the first official Jean-Paul Gaultier compilation

Vogue can be easily considered a quintessential Madonna hit, and it should not come by surprise to see it featured on the very first official compilation created by French Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Created as a chance to discover his personal selection of «muses musique et mode», the album comes out on CD and digital download on June 1st, perfectly timed with the Parisian stop of the Gaultier exhibition that runs at the Grand Palais from April 1st to August 3rd, 2015. Read More

Jean Paul Gaultier by Pierre et Gilles

“She’s a miracle because, well, she’s Madonna”

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier – From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk exhibition is finally on at the Grand Palais in Paris, and in a candid interview with the Associated Press, the French couturier looks back through his four decades of creations and recalls the surprising origin of the bustier that first made him a household name in the U.S. – when a certain pop star from Michigan wore it on her Blond Ambition Tour in 1990. Read More

Lucky Records

Lucky Records has a Rebel Heart, too

It’s no secret that the Lucky Records shop in rue de la Verrerie is a mandatory stop for any Madonna fans travelling to Paris, and MadonnaTribe friend and longtime contributor Dan took some fresh images of the store windows all dressed up in Rebel Heart love and the new album promo in full swing! Read More