{"id":132308,"date":"2023-10-19T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=132308"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:13:25","slug":"madonna-the-celebration-tour-review-the-queen-of-pop-has-still-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/madonna-the-celebration-tour-review-the-queen-of-pop-has-still-got-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna The Celebration Tour review – The Queen of Pop has still got it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Madonna\u2019s highly-anticipated The Celebration Tour kicked off at London\u2019s O2 Arena this week, just four months after a health scare sent the Queen of Pop to intensive care.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is more surprised that I\u2019ve made it this far,\u201d the 65-year-old admits after opening the 47-strong set list with Nothing Really Matters (1998).<\/p>\n

The first part of the nostalgic show took the sold-out crowd back to Madge\u2019s origin story with the aid of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race winner, Bob the Drag Queen. <\/p>\n

Footage of a youthful Madonna was projected onto screens as she arrived in New York City from her birthplace Michigan \u201cbroke, starving and homeless\u201d with just $35 to her name.<\/p>\n

Flexing her acting skills, Madonna recreates her failure to gain entry to the famous Paradise Garage club and then plays an electric guitar solo of Burning Up (1983), as she did on stage at Manhattan rock joint, CBGB, in early 1980.<\/p>\n

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She then delighted the crowd with dance numbers to iconic tracks Holiday (1983), Into the Groove (1985) and Open Your Heart (1986), which sounded fantastic and kept Madonna dancing with conviction, despite needing knee support due to an injury on her left leg.<\/p>\n

The next section took the crowd on a journey through the eras with the stage transforming into the religious iconography synonymous with Like A Prayer (1989) including dancers emulating the crucifixion of Jesus.<\/p>\n

In a nod to her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna removed her hooded cloak to unveil a red, satin negligee over fishnet tights and knee-high boots. For Erotica (1992) and Justify My Love (1990), Madonna writhed on a velvet bed at the centre of the stage for an explicit display with a cone-bra-wearing dancer resembling the star during the 1990 concert.<\/p>\n

The raunchiness was then amped up for her 2005 banger Hung Up. Madonna danced amidst a swarm of topless dancers, one of whom she pulled in for a passionate snog, before Bob The Drag Queen returned for a lively drag ball for her 1990 smash hit Vogue.<\/p>\n

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