LONDON — Madonna kicked off her Celebration tour in London on Saturday (Oct 14), with a performance that proved her energy, charisma and appetite for controversy were little dimmed after four decades of pop super-stardom and a brush with death earlier this year.
The 65-year-old's greatest hits show was pushed back from its original July start date after she was hospitalised in intensive care for a serious bacterial infection.
Wearing the corset and chains that defined her breakthrough, she sang Into The Groove before a sound problem forced her to ad-lib about her early struggles in New York. The mix of religious imagery and sexuality that elevated Madonna from pop star to cultural icon was the backdrop to Like a Prayer, while Vogue, the hit that powered her into the 1990s, saw one of the stages become a catwalk.
On her health scare, she said: "It was a crazy year for me as well. And I didn't think I was going to make it."
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