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Photos From All of Madonna’s Concert Tours, From 1985 to Now
Here are photos from every single one of Madonna's tours over the past 40 years.
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Madonna kicked off 2023 by announcing an incredible global tour to honor her four decades of hits.
The Celebration Tour will kick off Saturday, July 15, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver and will make additional stops in Phoenix, Detroit, Atlanta, Toronto, Montreal and more before concluding at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 8. The tour’s European leg will pick up with a pair of dates at The O2 arena on Oct. 14-15 and will make stops in Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Berlin and more before concluding in Amsterdam on Dec. 1 at the Ziggo Dome. Bob the Drag Queen will be a special guest on the tour.
As of Jan. 20, only a handful of tickets are still available — the tour is 98% sold out — after fans bought up 600,000 tickets in a matter of hours to see Madonna’s retrospective run in North America and Europe.
To celebrate the upcoming string of shows, we at Billboard have compiled photos from all of Madonna’s beloved tours, spanning from all the way back to 1985, when Madge hit the road for The Virgin Tour in support of her first two album, to the 2019 Madame X tour.
The Virgin Tour
Madonna performs on The Virgin Tour at the St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 21, 1985.
Who’s That Girl World Tour
Madonna in concert during her Who’s That Girl World Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York on July 13, 1987.
Blond Ambition World Tour
Madonna performs on stage at Feyenoord Stadium, de Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands on the Blond Ambition World Tour on July 24, 1990.
The Girlie Show
Madonna performing on stage on her The Girlie Show tour at Wembley Stadium in London on September 25, 1993.
Drowned World Tour
Madonna performs on stage on a bucking bronco on her Drowned World Tour in Earls Court, London on July 12, 2001.
Re-Invention World Tour
Madonna performs onstage during her “Re-Invention” World Tour 2004 at The Great Western Forum, May 26, 2004 in Inglewood, California.
Confessions Tour
Madonna performs onstage at the first London concert of her “Confessions” World Tour at Wembley Arena August 1, 2006 in London, England.
Sticky & Sweet Tour
Madonna performs onstage during the opening night of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour at the O2 Arena on July 4, 2009 in London, England.
The MDNA Tour
Madonna performs during the MDNA North America tour opener at the Wells Fargo Center on August 28, 2012 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rebel Heart Tour
Madonna performs onstage during her “Rebel Heart” tour at Wachovia Center on September 24, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Madame X Tour
Madonna performing during the Madame X Tour of the Paramount+ original movie MADAME X.
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Review: Madonna makes her theatrical, erotic return to Seattle after 12 years
After prancing through a pair of her ‘80s hits, “Everybody” and a springy “Into the Groove,” Madonna seemed to find herself in one. It had been nearly 12 years since she played Seattle, so there was a little catching up to do Saturday when the Queen of Pop settled in for the first of two Climate Pledge Arena shows.
“It’s good to be back,” Madonna professed after teasing a few bars of “Causing a Commotion.” “I feel your energy and I [expletive] love it. There’s a lot of history in this place and we’re gonna make some more of it tonight.”
Early on, the pop icon was loose and chatty, joking that whatever was in the beer bottle she was sipping on wasn’t actually going to her head (“It’s just water … don’t worry”) while priming her rapt audience for what was to come.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour was an appropriate way as any to get reacquainted with the feather-ruffling star. It’s the first tour in her 40-year career that isn’t propelled by a new album. Instead, it’s built as a career survey with theatrical stage production and impeccable choreography that follows her early days in New York City — including a throwback to her time at the fabled CBGB club with a guitar-buzzing “Burning Up,” which was a little overwhelmed by the backing bass track — through her pot-stirring rise to household name.
We are living in the era of eras tours, it seems, and it’s not exactly novel for most artists with a catalog four decades deep to fete their own legacy on the road. But for a pop star who’s always lived in the present, such an intentional embrace of her past felt significant. The framework for the biographical show was made even more poignant by a health scare that delayed the start of the tour.
Seattle was initially set to be the first U.S. stop last summer before Madonna, 65, was hospitalized with a serious bacterial infection and put in a medically induced coma for two days — a brush with death she seemingly alluded to later.
The two hour and 15 minute show, blemished only by some occasionally muddy sound, touched on mortality a number of times. There were nods to Prince and Jimi Hendrix, a heartfelt — if somewhat risky — Michael Jackson tribute during a wardrobe change and a potent “Live to Tell” dedicated to those lost during the AIDS epidemic. She later saluted New York artist Keith Haring, who died almost 34 years ago to the date, and “so many other artists” lost too soon “to a disease no one cared to find a cure for.”
“I say all this because, honestly, I feel so lucky and I think to myself often ‘Why me? Why did I get to stay alive?’ ” Madonna said. “I have no idea, but I’m so grateful. I’m so happy to be on this earth doing what I do.”
Those sobering moments wouldn’t derail what the tour’s emcee Bob the Drag Queen, a former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner, proclaimed at the onset was “not just a concert. … It’s a celebration!” An enduring artist who’s always had an ear toward the clubs, Madonna has tapped into various eras of dance music incursions into the American mainstream, each showcased with a semitruck load of nightclub glamour on Saturday.
There was the disco-spiked “Holiday” — performed with her battalion of dancers under a giant glimmering disco ball — the warp-speed electronica of 1998’s “Ray of Light” and 2015’s EDM-twisted “Bitch I’m Madonna,” a collaboration with Nicki Minaj.
Still, none was as potent as an extended romp through “Vogue,” one of Madge’s most famous heyday hits that centered and celebrated gay ballroom culture during the AIDS crisis and a period of intensified homophobia.
Nearly 40 years ago, Madonna helped make it OK to talk about sex. More specifically, she made it OK for women to talk about sex. It’s an inextricable part of her legacy and a needle Madonna continues to push as an artist in her 60s still comfortably embracing the sexuality that has always been a key component of both her artistry and celebrity. Lest anyone thought one of pop’s greatest provocateurs would tone it down in their latter years, a show that included more than one simulated sex act and the topless male and female dancers who joined her on an energized “Hung Up” proved Madonna is still Madonna.
The dance-pop racer capped a three-song run that began with “Erotica,” with Madonna’s hushed, sweat-drippy vocals accentuated by an amorphous web of limbs created by her dance team decked out in skin-colored spandex, before a bare-bones rendition of “Justify My Love.”
For anyone attending Sunday’s show, Madge hit the stage inside a steamy Climate Pledge Arena shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday. Madonna has taken some heat for her start times along the Celebration Tour, with two fans who attended one of her New York shows actually suing the pop star over her purported tardiness. (As of Sunday morning, tickets were still available starting at $75.50.)
Perhaps more noteworthy than any possible breach of bedtime, it was noticeably warmer than usual inside Seattle’s largest ice rink Saturday night. It’s not uncommon for touring acts to control an arena’s thermostat and apparently Madonna likes it hot. Word out of Minnesota, where she played before Seattle, was that the pop star requested they crank the heat to 80 degrees, according to the Pioneer Press .
While there were hits aplenty on Saturday, Madonna’s legacy-toasting trek isn’t exactly a by-the-numbers greatest hits tour. “Papa Don’t Preach” and “Material Girl” were notable absentee smashes, if not all that surprising since Madge has signaled in past interviews that she’s largely moved on from those particular mid-‘80s classics.
Before the choice rarity of “Bedtime Story,” which played like the soundtrack to some sort of erotic sensory deprivation chamber, a highlight reel of Madonna’s controversial moments and tabloid-esque sound bites played over the big screen. (A photo of a Mariners-capped Alex Rodriguez flashed among a series of her past love interests, never mind that the former Seattle slugger was a Yankee at the time of their rumored fling.)
“To age is a sin,” Madonna’s prerecorded voice declared at the end of the montage, echoing a speech she gave when accepting a Billboard woman of the year award in 2016. “I think the most controversial thing I’ve ever done is to stick around.”
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Listen for the Music, Look for the Muscles
By Ginia Bellafante
- Nov. 24, 2006
Will Madonna ever get old? She may acquire more gravitas, continue to mature emotionally and find greater meaning in her work with kabbalah, but will she ever come to look arthritic, puffy, menopausal? This increasingly seems doubtful. Madonna no longer reinvents, she maintains.
It is the sheer spectacularity of her physical form, the near menacing force of it, and largely that alone, that sustains your attention in “Madonna: The Confessions Tour, Live From London,” the two-hour film of a concert she gave at the Wembley Arena in London this past summer, which was broadcast on NBC Wednesday night and will be shown on Bravo next week.
With each tour Madonna has embarked on in recent years, her deltoids appear to have grown more regally expansive, robust and winglike. Toward the end of the Wembley show, part of a worldwide tour pegged to her album “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” Madonna sings one of the hits from it, “Hung Up,” a song about a woman who migrates between boredom and agony as she waits for a man to call. But who could this man possibly be? Unless Madonna is expecting a call from Wladimir Klitschko about meeting him in the ring, the sight of her singing a song like this, in a leotard no less, leaves you feeling as you might if you were forced to watch Ethel Merman trying to impersonate Chet Baker.
The show pays tribute to Madonna’s current and former selves and does so with dizzying jump cuts and all the spectacle — the acrobatics, playground sets, endless costume changes — that have become the hallmark of her concerts.
Today, Madonna, who is 48, is a concerned citizen of the world. She has made African AIDS orphans one of her causes and wants to adopt a child from Malawi, causing some controversy. At one point in the concert, she sings “Live to Tell” against the backdrop of images of children in Africa and a speeding tally of the number who have been left parentless. But here again, her perfect musculature produces a kind of dissonance. Madonna doesn’t have an altruist’s body, she has a denier’s. What you’re tallying in your head when you watch her dance with the strength and agility of a 19-year-old are the number of hours she spends each day practicing Ashtanga yoga, running hills and bench-pressing the weight of a Regency table. You are tallying all the calories that Madonna is not eating.
In addition to keeping up her legendary physical regimen, Madonna now also rides horses on her country estate in England. Some critics have seen this as another aspect of her Anglophilic pretensions, but what is really surprising is that it took her so long to cotton to a sport so steeped in the dynamic of submission and control. Madonna the equestrian seems the most inevitable Madonna of all. Perhaps realizing that on some level, she opened her Wembley show looking as if she were about to ride in a reimagining of Ascot. She danced around, directing men on all fours before she rode an apparatus meant to look like an electric horse.
Madonna travels backward in the show to the beginning of her career, the time before she was encumbered with the need to do good. The documentary “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret,” which follows her on her 2004 world tour, reveals a Madonna who wants to learn all the time, who hugs her assistant and dancers, who wishes she’d been nicer to people when she was young. Perhaps she knows that many in her audience miss the Madonna of so many Madonnas ago, the one who refused refinement and probably thought Oxford was just an insurance company.
“The Confessions Tour” gets deeper and deeper into her early disco years as it progresses, with Madonna getting in and out of a “Saturday Night Fever” tuxedo and Jane Fonda-esque aerobics gear before it’s all over, as if to tell us that sometimes, yes, she misses herself too.
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Madonna Brings Out Pamela Anderson as Surprise Guest at Vancouver Show: See the Photos
The "Express Yourself" singer brought out the 'Baywatch' star during her show Wednesday evening.
Madonna encouraged Pamela Anderson to express herself on stage when she brought out the Baywatch actress during a Canadian stop on her Celebration Tour .
On Wednesday, the 65-year-old "Like A Prayer" crooner surprised the audience in Vancouver with Anderson, 56 -- a native of the Great White North. During her guest appearance, the Barb Wire actress acted as the judge during Madonna's "Vogue" set, a role previously held by Kelly Ripa during a show in New York City.
For her look, Anderson opted to stick with her swearing off of makeup , appearing in front of the crowd with a seemingly bare face and lightly tousled hair. She also matched Madonna's black-and-white bodysuit by stunning in black tights, a white skirt and a black turtleneck sweater.
Videos posted online from the concert show the pair sitting back to back and watching contestants on stage vogue down the catwalk. During the "Vogue" portion of the show, Madonna and a guest watch the singer's backup dancers voguing down the stage and judge the skills. The whole situation is set to Madonna's iconic 1990 single, "Vogue."
One clip also sees Anderson and Madonna laughing, clapping and cheering for those partaking in the "Vogue" competition, holding up "10" judge cards for the dancers.
In a series of Instagram Story posts, the "Like a Virgin" singer acknowledged and thanked her guests and her audience for showing up to support her on tour, which encountered serious delays in 2023 after Madonna experienced health issues .
"Thank you Vancouver," she captioned the first Story, a photo of herself on stage with Anderson. "Best legs in town."
Another Instagram Story includes a photo of the two women together staring down the camera, while the singer sports a different outfit than the one she wore on stage with Anderson.
While Anderson was not the first star to guest judge during the "Vogue" portion of the show, it appears she also will not be the last.
ET has learned there are big names rumored to be in the guest chair when Madonna is in Los Angeles for five nights beginning March 4 at the Kia Forum, although no guests have been confirmed as of yet.
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