...so goes "The Power of Good-Bye" and it seems Warner tried to disprove our Mads and her fantastic fans, by hiding poignant, classic Madonna messages in her album and single sleeves around the turn of the Century...
M-Scrapbook: Madonna clippings from all over the world
Another selection of Madonna-related clippings from the recent world press - including again lots of coverage of the MET Ball last week - is brought to you by MadonnaTribe longtime friend and contributor JPasc24.
Click the image below to enlarge the montage - or click here for the individual scans.
After Madonna accepted her Top Touring Artist prize at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, the superstar sat down exclusively with "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli, and opened up about her family, her Met Gala photo with Kim Kardashian and her feud with Elton John.
Rocking a bodysuit and thigh-high tights, Madonna talked with Penacoli about her "MDNA" tour and working with her children, Lourdes, 16, and Rocco, 12. "It was great to have a working family… to me that’s my idea of fun, to be creative, to do what I love to do and see my kids working around me and earning their way in life. My daughter worked in the costume department and she loved it. My son was in the show, and he loved it."
Madonna explained how she juggles raising her four children, including son David Banda and daughter Mercy James, both 8. “I try to find the right balance between being there for them and guiding them and also being an artist. I’m trying to find enough time in the day to do those jobs well.”
The mom continued, "I try to be very clear with them. This is my persona for work. What we aspire to do is to work and to be good people. If you don't have those two things, fame is nothing, so I try to drill that into their heads."
Madonna also loves fashion and told Jerry that when she posed with Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala it was the second time she had met the reality TV star. “I met her years and years ago when she was a little girl, believe it or not. She told me she was a huge fan of mine, and it was during the time I was wearing all of the rubber bracelets on my arms. I took off all of the bracelets and gave them to her and then I completely forgot about it. She reminded me when I saw her the other night. Now she's a pregnant lady!”
As for her infamous feud with Elton John, John recently confirmed to "Extra" the two made up. Madonna confirmed the reconciliation at a restaurant in Nice, France. "After we kissed and hugged, he paid for my dinner, as he should."
For those who did not catch Madonna’s MDNA Tour in person, a TV special will air June 22 on the Epix movie channel. She also announced to Penacoli that the tour special is being released on DVD and Blu-ray in September.
Madonna's speech at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards was such an over-the-top display of diva-dom, even audience members like Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, and Nicki Minaj were probably taken aback. But it was also one of the night's most entertaining moments.
Showing up to accept her Top Touring Artist award in Kanye West shades, a fur jacket, stockings and a garter belt, and not much else - and looking so blasé about the whole event, it was a wonder she showed up at all - the blondely ambitious elder stateswoman of pop promised that her acceptance speech would be "brief." She then proceeded to self-importantly blather about herself for what felt like 15 minutes.
Actually, it was only about four minutes - but they were fascinating minutes, and personally, I never wanted them to end.
Madonna started off her epic speech complaining about her microphone stand's height, saying, "They obviously think I'm shorter than I am. I'm not happy about that." She also dryly joked about the complicated "ass negotiations" behind ABCs apparently agonized decision to include a shot of her famously fit posterior in her pre-award clip package. "It took longer to negotiate whether I could show my ass in that trailer than it took to rehearse for my tour," she quipped.
Madonna proceeded to basically turn the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, who'd introduced her, into her personal assistant, handing him her "pretentious sunglasses" and saying, "It's good that I have Will here to hold all my props."
She then made a joke about her children rubbing her feet; declared, "I've got the best dancers, I'm sorry"; and finally thanked her fanbase, because "a showgirl needs her fans."
Madonna didn't even perform, but she upstaged many of the night's actual A-list performers. So all hail Her Madgesty, the Queen of the Billboard Awards...and the Queen of Shade.
From an article by Lyndsey Parker, Stop The Presses! at Yahoo! Music.
Right after winning Top Touring Artist at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night (May 19), Keith Caulfield caught up with Madonna backstage for a quick chat. The pop icon discussed her upcoming MDNA concert special, new album rumors and her charitable initiatives in Africa and beyond.
Madonna was quick to quiet any notion that she had started work on a new studio album. "No, not yet. I just finished editing the DVD of my ("MDNA") concert," adding jokingly, "so I haven't had any free time."
Madonna's editing handiwork will be revealed on June 22, when her MDNA Tour concert special premieres on premium network EPIX. The concert will debut at 8 p.m. EST that night on EPIX's TV network and online at EpixHD.com and on EPIX apps. A home video release of the tour is due out in fall, possibly in September.
The globe-trekking MDNA Tour was 2012's highest-grossing trek and the 10th-biggest tour of all time according to Billboard Boxscore. It played 88 shows on four continents to over 2.2 million attendees. The tour supported her 2012 studio album "MDNA," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
At the Billboard Music Awards, Madonna also spoke about her continued commitment to girls education and outreach in Malawi and beyond.
"I continue to do my work there," she said, noting that her organization had recently finished building 10 schools, "which I'm very proud of," and that she continues "to do work with various orphanages, hospitals, medical trainees, supporting doctors (and) pediatricians."
She continued, saying how she's "trying to expand" her efforts "beyond Malawi to other parts of the world."
As part of that charitable expansion, she recently sold a Fernand Leger painting for $7.2 million, the proceeds of which will benefit her Ray of Light Foundation that supports girls' education projects in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.
The 1921 painting, titled "Trois Femmes a la Table Rouge," was sold at a Sotheby's auction on May 7, exceeding pre-sale expectations. Madonna had owned the work since 1990, when she bought it at Sotheby's for $3.4 million.
Madonna's first ever calendar was created in 1985! This beautiful promotional only one was created by Warner Japan back in 1985 to promote the Like A Virgin album and celebrate the breakthrough of this new megastar and came attached to this beautiful Madonna-shaped cardboard display!
The calendar featured many rare shots and only a handful of copies are known still to exist. Thanks Wilkie!
The one featured in the photo above is owned by Tribe's resident collector-extraordinaire Madonnation who kindly agreed to let us show it to you all.
In The Media: Madonna confirms attending Chime For Change event
Madonna has confirmed her participation as presenter in 'The Sound of Change Live' concert, presented by CHIME FOR CHANGE. Recently founded by Gucci, the organization hosts campaigns for improved Education, Health and Justice for women and girls worldwide. The four-hour concert, which takes place at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday 1 June, is supported by an impressive line-up of world-class artists and internationally renowned presenters, lending their voices to CHIME FOR CHANGE.
The confirmed line-up is: Aishwarya Rai * Archbishop Desmond Tutu * Beyonce * Blake Lively * Ellie Goulding * Florence + the Machine * Freida Pinto * Gloria Steinman * Gordon and Sarah Brown * HAIM * Humaira Bachal * Iggy Azalea * Jada Pinkett Smith * James Franco * Jennifer Lopez * Jessica Chastain * John Legend * Laura Pausini * Leymah Gbowee * Madonna * Mpho Tutu * Rita Ora * Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy * Timbaland * Zoe Saldana *
Madonna said, "60 percent of the children in the world NOT in school, are girls! 2/3 of the world's illiterate are WOMEN! I Do NOT accept this. We need to change this and we WILL CHANGE THIS!"
The concert will start at 5.30pm and finish at 10:00pm and each artist will perform special sets with some exciting collaborations expected. Throughout the concert short films will be shown highlighting issues such as: 60% of children not in school are girls, 800 women die daily in pregnancy or childbirth - most of whom would live with access to proper care, and despite gains, just 21% of seats in national parliaments are held by women.
Tickets for the concert are available from:
www.chimeforchange.org
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 844-847 1693
Check out some stunning images of Madonna in the press room at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas last night - click any image to enlarge.
Videos: Madonna receives her Top Touring Artist award
Madonna fan and longtime MadonnaTribe Forum member Gutten has shared a HD recording of Madonna being presented with the Top Touring Artist award at the BBMAs last night.
Check out the clip - including a two minute teaser from the MDNA Tour - and make sure to visit the MadonnaTribe Forum to share you thoughts with fellow fans.
The Queen of Pop scored three awards at the 2013 BBMA as she won in all the categories she was nominated for this year: Top Touring Artist, Top Dance Artist and Top Dance Album with MDNA.
Madonna hit the stage to receive her Top Touring Artist award while the other two were announced before the show telecast.
EpixHD ha released two promotional images from the Madonna: The MDNA Tour premiering on Saturday, June 22 at 8:00pm ET.
The black and white image is the first to be released from the sessions that Madonna's longtime collaborator, photographer Steven Klein had during the American leg of the show.
All eyes will be on the 2013 Billboard Music Awards' blue carpet when the stars arrive at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight for the big event - and you can watch live video of it right here! Tune in from 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT until the BBMAs begin at 8pm ET to see all of the action on the blue carpet.
The biggest names in music will be attending the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Lil Wayne, Miguel, Nicki Minaj, Pitbull, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, and the Band Perry are among the many performers.
At the BBMAs, Prince will not only be honored with the Billboard Icon award, but he will be performing as well. Madonna will also take the stage to accept the Top Touring Artist award. Presenters include Miley Cyrus, PSY, Shania Twain, Ke$ha and more.
Tracy Morgan will host the 2013 Billboard Music Awards Sunday, May 19th at 8|7c on ABC live from Las Vegas.
Hello Tribers, cd singles collectors among you will surely remember that in late 1995, almost simultaney with the release of her then latest single You'll See,
the lovely Warner Music Germany pressed for the first time on cd a whole bunch of old
Madonna 12" singles.
This series is made of 23 singles - 5 for each of the three first albums, 3 for Who's That Girl, 4 for Like A Prayer
and then just the lonely "Vogue" for I'm Breathless.
Let's go more in detail:
From "The First Album" we had Everybody, Burning Up, Holiday, Borderline and Lucky Star.
From "Like A Virgin" we got Like A Virgin, Material Girl, Into The Groove, Angel and Dress You Up,
From "True Blue" they pressed "Live To Tell, Papa Don't Preach, True Blue, Open Your Heart, La Isla Bonita.
From "Who's That Girl" we got the 3 singles Who's That Girl, Causing A Commotion and The Look Of Love
From "Like A Prayer" Warner went for Like A Prayer White Cover 12", Like A Prayer Yellow Cover 12", Express Yourself and Cherish
From "I'm Breathless" the main single, Vogue.
All these cds came with Yellow coloured discs with blue writings and a Sire Records logo. Since
there were multiple reprints over the years there can be different shades of yellow
from one print to the other. Apparently legend says there are also rare misprinted copies of "Like A Prayer Yellow Cover" where
the two colours were swapped by mistake (blue disc and yellow writings).
But the strangest thing happened way back in summer 2005 when
while browsing a the Virgin store in Paris' Champs-Élysées I stumbled upon four of these cds
(released for the first time 10 years earlier) and the discs were not yellow as they should have been
but they were instead white!!! with blue writings and logos!!!
There wasn't an apparent reason to repress these particular cds (it isn't completely clear if they were indeed German re-releases as the
originals or UK made re-pressings) and the four lucky titles also seems to have been selected randomly. They are Burning Up,
Bordeline, Causing A Commotion and Vogue!
So do you have them in your collection? As they are more limited and more hard to find these 4 titles can cost a little more if the person selling them
can spot the difference with the more common yellow ones.
Here is a quick reminder of The 2013 Billboard Music Awards that will air Sunday, May 19 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, live from Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Madonna will be honored with the Top Touring Artist award at the upcoming Billboard Music Awards, an achievement earned by the worldwide success of her MDNA tour; she will not be performing this time around but will take the stage to accept her award.
The night is hosted by "30 Rock" alum Tracy Morgan, with Don Mischer producing and artists from Prince to Taylor Swift to Lil Wayne set to perform. Other performers joining the ceremony include Nicki Minaj, Bruno Mars, Miguel, Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, the Band Perry, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Chris Brown, Ed Sheeran, Akon, Ne-Yo, David Guetta and Icona Pop.
Billboard Music Awards finalists were based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital singles sales, radio airplay, touring, streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, VEVO, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music. These measurements were tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound.
The MDNA Tour's sold out 88-date run was 2012's top-grossing tour with $305 million. It is Madonna's latest chart landmark in a career full of them, including records for Hot 100 top 10 singles (38 of her overall 56 Hot 100 hits) and Dance Club Songs No. 1s (43). Her "MDNA" album bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 -- her eighth trip to the penthouse -- with sales of 359,000.
Hey Tribers, welcome back to our brand new corner devoted to collecting here on MadonnaTribe.com.
Today I've taken off my shelf another cd rarity to cover on our collecting space on MadonnaTribe.
In early 1995, after a few months the Bedtime Stories album was already released in stores,
Warner Music US started distributing to media, radio and lucky friends (who promptly dumped them to online cd stores) a free promo limited edition
version of the album presented in an elegant pale blue velvet digipak with the album logo embossed on it.
When you open this amazing digipak case, you find the 11 track standard US album and its lyric booklet
housed in a pocket on the left side.
Legend says this was actually going to be produced as commercial limited edition, the fact the cd inside
bears no promo writings may confirm that. For some reason the release in stores wasn't green lighted and
the very
limited stock already produced as test was eventually distributed around as a promotional freebie.
Nonetheless that "test" proved to be a success as the very first official limited edition version of a Madonna
studio album in the same vein came soon after this one with the lenticular digipak edition of Ray Of Light in 1998.
This Bedtime Stories cd is quite rare now and is usually sold between 100$/200$ each time it appears on Ebay according to its condition. I have two copies and I'm gonna keep them with me as long as there's bread on my table!
2012's biggest and most successful tour, Madonna's MDNA Tour, is getting beamed straight into your home on June 22 thanks to EPIX and ETonline scored an exclusive clip that shows how this broadcast will present a new and dynamic visual experience for fans.
So check out an exclusive clip of Madonna performing Give Me All Your Luvin' and tune in to the full concert experience, June 22 on EPIX!
First Look: Madonna on ''Now That's What I Call 30 Years''
A Madonna song will appear for the first time ever on "Now That's What I Call Music" when the UK compilation series celebrates its 30 years with a special 3-CD set later this month.
"Now That's What I Call 30 Years" will be released on May 27, 2013 and Madonna's "Into The Groove" is track 2 on the first disc of the collection.
This is the first time Madonna to appear on this long running series, while she did appear on the Hits collections that were part of the Warner family in the past. For "Into The Groove" to appear on this UK series is somewhat misleading as it hints she appeared on an earlier album, for which she has not.
Nonetheless, as the 3-disc set is filled with 60 uber-popular anthems from the past three decades, from "Billie Jean" to "Gangnam Style", we're more than happy that the Queen of Pop is not being missed. Click the Full Article link below for the complete tracklisting.
Special thanks to our longtime Forum member and contributor billyboyz.
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