Family, friends and even ex lovers got the celebration treatment in Madonna’s latest spectacular show.
The Ciccone family heritage seems in safe hands as five of the pop Queen’s kids played a major role on the opening night of her Celebration tour in London. Daughter Mercy played piano beautifully on Bad Girl, while son David was afforded a starring role on guitar for various tunes including Don’t Tell Me.
The real highlights though were 11 year-old twins Estere and Stella who DJ’d and struck a pose during Vogue. Eldest daughter Lourdes scored their dance routines a ‘10’ with giant cards.
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It happened to be Lourdes’ 27th birthday and her mum announced: “I promised I wouldn’t sing happy birthday to her” so she encouraged fans to sing Little Star to her instead.
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Madonna paid tribute to her own late parents alongside her adopted son’s folks with giant family portraits shown during a rendition of Mother And Father, while departed friends and collaborators from Madonna’s entire career, including artist Keith Haring, were toasted during Live To Tell.
Perhaps most amusing though was section dedicated to her many former lovers with blast-from-the-pasts Warren Beatty, Guy Ritchie, Dennis Rodman (who once claimed he bonked 2,000 women), Vanilla Ice, Jellybean Benitez and Sean Penn emblazoned across the big screens. Ears will be burning! Plus there was a tribute to “friend” Michael Jackson where she blended Like A Virgin with Billie Jean while silhouettes of them both danced.
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It was clearly an emotional event for Madonna who reflected on her a near-death illness earlier this year and told the crowd how having her children at her side “pulled me through” before playing a verse of I Will Survive on guitar. Being in London was also “a full circle” moments because in her youth she saved up for plane tickets to London to “check out the music and the fashion”.
Speaking of which Madonna’s wardrobe was also a massive celebration of her past with the dancers rocking 17 iconic looks from her past from the Like A Virgin wedding dress to that cone-bra corset.
Madonna’s favourite designers combined to honour her immaculate style with bespoke new creations that also reflected different eras from her career.
Jean Paul Gaultier returned for the memorable Vogue routine outfits, while Versace handled the sparkly catsuit on Bedtime Stories. There was even an AI version of Madge with pink hair animated onto the screens for future generations to come. It was a captivating spectacle but despite it being a “hits” show there were plenty of absent classics – notably Borderline, Express Yourself, Material Girl, Frozen, True Blue and only hints of Music and Papa Don’t Preach.
In truth this was a typically unapologetic, often controversial, very sexy Madonna extravaganza, doing what she wants to do her way, always looking forward and totally mesmerising.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
