Madonna announces world tour dates

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added: 7 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna will embark on a world tour this year.
Following her much talked about Super Bowl performance on Sunday, the Queen of Pop's team officially revealed the dates of the globe-spanning 2012 series of shows this morning.
The 52-year-old will play the opening concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, and cover close to 90 dates.
'Madonna is having a huge party and everyone's invited! The Madonna 2012 WorldTour begins May 29th 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel, it was officially announced by Live Nation Entertainment, the tour's international promoter,' Madonna's PR team said in a statement. 'The shows will include arenas, stadiums and special outdoor sites including the Plains of Abraham in Quebec and a return visit to South America and Australia where she has not performed in 20 years. The tour will stop in 26 European cities including London, Edinburgh, Paris, Milan and Berlin.'
The announcement of the international superstar's tour follows an extraordinary week for the legendary musician.
Not only did she wow with her halftime performance at one of America's biggest sporting events, Madonna also release the first single from her highly anticipated upcoming album.
Pop stars Britney Spears and Rihanna tweeted their excitement about Madonna's new material.
'Madonna - amazing performance last night! LUV you,' Britney wrote on her profile.
'MDNA era>>>>>>>>>>>>>I'm here for it tbh! Madonna referencing herself is the ultimate F**K YOU! Hehehe (sic),' Rihanna added.
Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour in 2008 proved that the music icon still draws in the crowds as she sold out arenas worldwide, grossing a total of $408 million according to Billboard Boxscore.
'Madonna's track record as a world class entertainer and touring artist speaks for itself. Her artistry, talent and creative productions get bigger and better with each tour and Madonna 2012 will be no exception. We are thrilled to have her back on the road and know her fans feel the same,' Arthur Fogel, CEO Live Nation Entertainment Global Touring and Madonna tour promoter, said.

MADONNA 2012 WORLD TOUR

May
Tue 29th Tel Aviv, Israel, Ramat Gam Stadium

June
Sun 3rd Abu Dhabi, Yas Arena
7-Jun Istanbul, Turkey Turk Telecom Arena
Mon 11th Zagreb, Croatia, Maksimir Stadium
Thu 14th Milan, Italy, Stadio San Siro
Sat 16th Florence, Italy, Stadio Franchi
Wed 20th Barcelona, Spain, Palau Sant Jordi
Sun 24th Coimbra, Portugal, Estadio Cidade de Coimbra
Thu 28th Berlin, Germany, O2 Arena

July
Mon 2nd Copenhagen, Denmark, Parken Stadium
Wed 4th Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ziggo Dome
Thu 12th Brussels, Belgium, Stade Roi-Baudouin
Sat 14th Paris, France, Stade De France
Tue 17th London, UK, Hyde Park
Sat 21st Edinburgh, UK, Murrayfield Stadium
Tue 24th Dublin, Ireland, Aviva Stadium
Sun 29th Vienna, Austria, Ernst-Happel-Stadion
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Madonna: Super Bowl means so much

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added: 3 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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(Cover) - EN Music - Madonna feels pressure to 'put on a good show' this Super Bowl.

The superstar will take to the stage at the iconic American football game at halftime this weekend.

Madonna has intense butterflies in her stomach about this performance, as millions of people will be watching her.

'I'm so nervous!' she told Extra. 'It's like the Super Bowl is like, God in America. It's like the whole country is watching this game. It's everything and it means so much to people. Then I come on at halftime... I'd better put on a damn good show, right?'

Madonna has reportedly been prepping hard for this performance, putting in up to 12 hour rehearsal days at the studio.

Although Madonna won't reveal what she's planning to do onstage, the star guarantees that audiences will be entertained.

'I'm not telling you [what I'm doing]," Madonna said. 'I'm gonna do a new song from my record, then do some oldies but goodies, so stay tuned.'

Give Me All Your Luvin' is the first track from Madonna's upcoming album M.D.N.A. and the whole promo will be released today.

Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. will join Madonna during the halftime show.

Super Bowl XLVI airs this Sunday.

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Madonna stuns at Super Bowl

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added: 6 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna performed an extravagant medley filled with surprises at Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI.
The 53-year-old superstar wore a golden Givenchy warrior dress as she dominated the stage for a 12-minute medley at this year's half-time show.
Madonna began the set by singing Vogue as she was carried onto the stage by a bevy of men clad in armour resembling those of Roman soldiers.
Acrobatic dancers joined Madonna onstage for her next number Music, performing flips and assisting the songstress with cartwheels.
Guest vocalists Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. became Madonna's cheerleaders as the trio performed Give Me All Your Luvin'.
According to Us Weekly, M.I.A. was particularly enthusiastic. As a cameraman stepped up to get a direct shot of her, the Paper Planes singer flipped up her middle finger.
For the final tune Like a Prayer, Cee Lo Green joined Madonna on an elevated platform as a choir filled the stage beneath them.
The show ended with bright white lights beaming onto the field that read 'World Peace'.
Ten of millions of Americans watch this annual sporting event on television.
Madonna's upcoming album MDNA will be released in the spring.

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Steven Tyler: Madonna will rock Super Bowl

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added: 3 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Steven Tyler expects a fantastic performance from Madonna at Super Bowl XLVI as she 'gets the big picture'.

The superstar will take to the stage at the iconic American football game on Sunday. She's admitted getting an attack of nerves while preparing for the event, but Steven has every faith that she'll pull it off.

'If I were Madonna, I think she would be rehearsing for the last month about it, 'cause she's smart,' he told Access Hollywood.

'I love that woman. She really gets the big picture.'

Steven knows what he is talking about as he performed at the iconic football event in 2001. He sang with his band Aerosmith, but things didn't work out as he'd hoped.

'I went out - it was in surround sound - and only my vocal came out,' he recalled. 'The band was gone. I watched it and went, 'Mmmm,' and I melted down into the rug.'

Madonna is expected to perform her new song Give Me All Your Luvin' on Sunday. It is released today and she premiered a small portion of the promo during last night's American Idol show.

The track features vocals from M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, and the preview began with the two stars dressed in cheerleader outfits.

Madonna was then seen strutting along in an overcoat, sunglasses and the fingerless gloves she has recently become famous for. The iconic star is pushing a pram as she approaches the two younger singers.

Nicki and M.I.A. have a whole cheerleading squad with them, while a footballer is alongside Madonna clearing the way down the street for her. Soon more sportsmen appear and all make it their mission to ensure Madonna is safe from rain and is able to walk the street without obstruction.

Give Me All Your Luvin' is the first track from Madonna's upcoming album M.D.N.A. and the whole promo will be released today.

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Beth Ditto: Call me Madonna

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added: 25 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Beth Ditto was 'over the moon' to hear she had inspired Madonna.

The singer is currently promoting her solo EP and has recalled her excitement after discovering the Queen of Pop cited her material as an influence for her new album MDNA.

The Gossip frontwoman would love to write for the iconic musician.

'I was over the moon when I heard that,' she told British magazine NME. 'I got a fire in my ass about wanting to write for her. I was like, 'Get on the horn and call me, Madge! Does anyone have Madonna's phone number?' Oh hold on, no-one does.'

Beth also spoke about her collaboration with successful producer Mark Ronson.

The pair have been working together on the upcoming Gossip album and got on amazingly well.

'I love Mark and we worked together really well. He's a Virgo and I'm a Pisces, so we complemented each other's personalities. One of our most common bonds was that we both loved big voices, church voices,' she said. 'He loves country music, which is a big deal to me because, you know, in terms of things I love, country music is probably number one.'

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Madonna: It�s magic with Orbit

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added: 26 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna says 'magic happens' when she works with William Orbit.

The 53-year-old superstar is gearing up to release her latest musical offering, M.D.N.A.. Madonna worked with producer William Orbit on a number of tracks on the upcoming album, including her Golden Globe Award-winning Masterpiece.

The songstress has complete faith in collaborating with William.

"Magic happens when we get into a recording studio together,' she told MTV News.

Madonna loves working with William because the process happens so naturally. The American singer says their collaborations are always so smooth because they understand each other.

"With William, I didn''t really have a discussion," she explained.

"We''ve worked on stuff for so many years that we kind of finish each other''s sentences. He knows my taste and what I like."

The relationship between Madonna and William is a long-standing one. The star produced most of the tracks on Madonna's Ray of Light record, including Frozen and The Power of Good-Bye.

The album ' which was released in 1998 - won several Grammy Awards and Video Music Awards.

William also produced Madonna's Beautiful Stranger song for the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Sh**ged Me soundtrack. It picked up a Grammy Award in 2000.

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Oscar Isaac: Madonna dislikes divas

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added: 22 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Oscar Isaac says Madonna would have 'gotten the fire hose out' if any of the cast were 'divas' on set of W.E.

The actor stars in the superstar's second directorial offering which details the controversial love affair between American divorcee Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.

Oscar says Madonna was a no-nonsense director.

'Oh God, gotten the fire hose out!' he laughed when asked what she would have done if any of the cast were acting like divas.

Oscar has revealed what it was like to work with Madonna. The 32-year-old star says she was focused, but also very down-to-earth.

'It was very intense. She's a very demanding director but I work well under that kind of pressure. It was refreshing working with her because a lot of people will just settle for mediocrity but she made sure she got the best out of everyone,' he explained in an interview with the British edition of OK! magazine.

'She would spontaneously burst into song and we'd join in. We were a very musical group of people so it did work. We were quite goofy! She'd also tell lots of really bad jokes.'

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David Furnish addresses Madonna slam

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added: 20 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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David Furnish 'wishes the best' for Madonna despite calling her 'desperate [and a] narcissist'.

Sir Elton John's husband David took to Facebook to lambast the singer immediately after Madonna won the best song trophy at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15.

Elton was in competition for the same award and David felt that Madonna did not deserve the accolade.

'My passion for our film Gnomeo & Juliet and belief in Elton''s song really got my emotional juices going,' David posted on his Facebook page Thursday. 'But I must say for the record that I do believe Madonna is a great artist, and that Elton and I wish her all the best for next week''s premiere of the film W.E. (sic).'

The day Madonna won the award David was seething with rage.

'Madonna. Best song???? F*** off!!!' he posted on Facebook. 'Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is (sic).'

Madonna seemed to have no hard feelings toward Elton or David, despite the bad words.

'Oh. I hope he speaks to me for the next couple of years. He's known to get mad at me,' Madonna told the BBC after the ceremony. 'I don't know, he's brilliant and I adore him. He'll win another award and I don't feel bad.'

Elton was nominated for his Lady Gaga collaboration Hello Hello from animated film Gnomeo & Juliet.

The two musical icons have been feuding for years when the Rocket Man slammed Madonna's win of Best Live Act at the 2004 GQ Awards.

'Since when has lip-synching been live?' he said sarcastically at the time.

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Quick quips: Madonna, Coachella, Bruce Springsteen, Sinead O'Connor, Leonard Cohen, Gerry Rafferty, Charlie Collins

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added: 17 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Veteran artists picked up or were the subject of a couple of movie awards over the weekend. Martin Scorsese won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 17th annual Critic's Choice Awards for George Harrison: Living in the Material World."
On Sunday night, Scorsese won again at the Golden Globes for his film Hugo but Madonna was the veteran artist who came out on top of the Original Song category for Masterpiece from her film W.E. (co-written with Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry). In winning, she beat out Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Chris Cornell and Mary J. Blige who were also nominated.

The Coachella Festival expanded to two weekends this year, boasting the same lineup each week, to try and accommodate more people. Even with double the capacity, both weekends sold out in just under three hours.

Bruce Springsteen was in Asbury Park, NJ over the weekend, shooting a video for one of the songs on his upcoming album on Friday. The shoot included an appearance by singer-songwriter Willie Nile who is reportedly also on the album track.
Saturday night, Springsteen appeared at the annual Light of Day charity concert which raises money to fight Parkinson's Disease. A full report on the show and his appearance can be found on Rolling Stone's site.

Sinead O'Connor's marriage is off again, possibly for good, with the singer blaming the media.
Last week, an article was published by a British tabloid questioning whether her new husband should be counseling drug addicted teens while his wife was seeking drugs. The article sent O'Connor into a tailspin and she apparently tried to commit suicide, going to the Twitter community for help.
O'Connor now says she hopes the media will leave her husband alone. "I will never again associate myself romantically with anyone as I could not bear to see these things done again to someone I love. Of course I have my children, family and friends so I am happy enough and will be old self in matter of days. for which I make no apology. Onward and upward."

The New Yorker magazine will break into a new frontier tomorrow (Monday) when, for the first time in their 87 year history, they will stream a song whose lyric they are publishing in their next edition. That song is Going Home from Leonard Cohen's upcoming album, Old Ideas, which will be out on Columbia on January 31.

Paul Muldoon, poetry editor for the magazine, said that they had printed the lyrics of music by Cohen, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in recent years but they have never accompanied the publishing with an on-line stream of the song.

When Gerry Rafferty passed away last year, he didn't provide for his fiance, Ezina Fuschini, in his will which had been written before they met. Fuschini is now suing his estate under Britain's Inheritance Act of 1975 which allows those who were being supported by the deceased to receive a "reasonable financial provision" from the estate.

Charlie Collins, a guitarist and fiddler who played with Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys, passed away on Thursday at the age of 78 from a stroke. He was originally with the Pinnacle Mountain Boys and joined Acuff's group in 1966 where he stayed for 25 years. After leaving Acuff, he played with Bashful Brother Oswald and was a regular at the Grand Ole Opry as part of the Square Dance Band.
Word is that Collins played last Saturday night at the Opry and had the stroke on Sunday morning.

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Elton John�s husband slams Madonna

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added: 16 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Elton John's husband David Furnish has called Madonna 'desperate' and a 'narcissist.'

The stinging attack came after Madonna took home the prize for Best Original Song at last night's Golden Globes and beat Elton who was also nominated in the same category.

David had immediately taken to his Facebook page when the Material Girl was announced as the winner the song Masterpiece from her movie W.E. that she also directed.

'Madonna. Best song???? F*** off!!!' he wrote. Elton had earlier said that Madonna had 'no f***ing chance of winning.'

But David was seemingly still seething and later continued his rant on the social networking site.

'Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit,' David said.

'Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is.'

Elton was nominated for his Lady Gaga collaboration Hello Hello from animated film Gnomeo and Juliet.

'Oh. I hope he speaks to me for the next couple of years. He's known to get mad at me,' Madonna told the BBC after the ceremony. 'I don't know, he's brilliant and I adore him. He'll win another award and I don't feel bad.'

The two musical icons have been feuding for years when the Rocket Man slammed Madonna's win of Best Live Act at the 2004 GQ Awards.

'Since when has lip-synching been live?' he said sarcastically at the time.

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Madonna: I hope Elton doesn�t stay mad

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added: 16 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna has joked that she hopes Elton John will speak to her after she beat him to a Golden Globe award.

The superstar scooped the trophy from the iconic singer in the Best Original Song category with the song Masterpiece from her new movie W.E.

Elton was nominated for his Lady Gaga collaboration Hello Hello from animated film Gnomeo and Juliet.

'Oh. I hope he speaks to me for the next couple of years. He's known to get mad at me,' Madonna told the BBC after the ceremony. 'I don't know, he's brilliant and I adore him. He'll win another award and I don't feel bad.'

Before the Golden Globes kicked off in Beverly Hills last night, a confident Elton announced on the red carpet that Madonna stood 'no f***ing chance' of winning the accolade.

The 64-year-old was filmed looking stony-faced when Madonna accepted the award.

With W.E. being only her second directing project, the singer-turned-filmmaker seemed stunned herself at receiving a gong.

"This is a surprise,' she said in her thank-you speech. 'Thank you very much to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this acknowledgement.'

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Quick quips: Madonna, Coachella, Bruce Springsteen, Sinead O'Connor, Leonard Cohen, Gerry Rafferty, Charlie Collins

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added: 16 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Veteran artists picked up or were the subject of a couple of movie awards over the weekend. Martin Scorsese won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 17th annual Critic's Choice Awards for George Harrison: Living in the Material World."

On Sunday night, Scorsese won again at the Golden Globes for his film Hugo but Madonna was the veteran artist who came out on top of the Original Song category for Masterpiece from her film W.E. (co-written with Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry). In winning, she beat out Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Chris Cornell and Mary J. Blige who were also nominated.

The Coachella Festival expanded to two weekends this year, boasting the same lineup each week, to try and accommodate more people. Even with double the capacity, both weekends sold out in just under three hours.
Bruce Springsteen was in Asbury Park, NJ over the weekend, shooting a video for one of the songs on his upcoming album on Friday. The shoot included an appearance by singer-songwriter Willie Nile who is reportedly also on the album track.

Saturday night, Springsteen appeared at the annual Light of Day charity concert which raises money to fight Parkinson's Disease. A full report on the show and his appearance can be found on Rolling Stone's site.
Sinead O'Connor's marriage is off again, possibly for good, with the singer blaming the media.

Last week, an article was published by a British tabloid questioning whether her new husband should be counseling drug addicted teens while his wife was seeking drugs. The article sent O'Connor into a tailspin and she apparently tried to commit suicide, going to the Twitter community for help.
O'Connor now says she hopes the media will leave her husband alone. "I will never again associate myself romantically with anyone as I could not bear to see these things done again to someone I love. Of course I have my children, family and friends so I am happy enough and will be old self in matter of days. for which I make no apology. Onward and upward."

The New Yorker magazine will break into a new frontier tomorrow (Monday) when, for the first time in their 87 year history, they will stream a song whose lyric they are publishing in their next edition. That song is Going Home from Leonard Cohen's upcoming album, Old Ideas, which will be out on Columbia on January 31.
Paul Muldoon, poetry editor for the magazine, said that they had printed the lyrics of music by Cohen, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in recent years but they have never accompanied the publishing with an on-line stream of the song.

When Gerry Rafferty passed away last year, he didn't provide for his fiance, Ezina Fuschini, in his will which had been written before they met. Fuschini is now suing his estate under Britain's Inheritance Act of 1975 which allows those who were being supported by the deceased to receive a "reasonable financial provision" from the estate.

Charlie Collins, a guitarist and fiddler who played with Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain Boys, passed away on Thursday at the age of 78 from a stroke. He was originally with the Pinnacle Mountain Boys and joined Acuff's group in 1966 where he stayed for 25 years. After leaving Acuff, he played with Bashful Brother Oswald and was a regular at the Grand Ole Opry as part of the Square Dance Band.
Word is that Collins played last Saturday night at the Opry and had the stroke on Sunday morning.

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Madonna: Women inspire me

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added: 15 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna was inspired by 'women who lived in a man's world' when she was younger.

The singer has also worked in movies and designed clothing lines. She hopes to show younger people anything is possible if they put their minds to it and has opened up about what drove her when she was growing up.

'Frida Kahlo [Mexican artist], Martha Graham [American choreographer and dancer], Tina Modotti [Italian photographer] ' women who were artists, freedom fighters, political activists, women who lived in a man's world and found their way in it,' she explained.

Madonna has a teenage daughter called Lourdes who she is raising to be independent.

Although the star admits Lourdes was impressed with her directorial debut W.E., she laughed when asked if the youngster looked up to the characters in it.

'She loves it, [but] no, definitely not! She's her own character. She wants to be an actress,' Madonna told Look magazine.

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Madonna: People are complex

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added: 14 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna has advised people to 'look beneath the surface' when getting to know friends.

The singer is currently promoting her movie W.E., which is about the abdication crisis in the UK. Britain's King Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry US divorcée Wallis Simpson, and throughout the movie it is made clear that no-one should obsess about getting everything right.

'Because there's no such thing as perfection, we have to look beneath the surface. How do you get to know a person?' Madonna mused. 'You can't expect to know who they are by reading about them in a magazine.'

The music star admits it took a lot for her to move into helming movies. She is divorced from director Guy Ritchie and worried she wouldn't be taken seriously.

'I was completely intimidated to become a director because I was married to one and I thought, 'Oh, who am I?' But eventually, I found the courage to do it,' she told British magazine Look.

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Madonna names new album

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added: 12 Jan 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Madonna's twelfth studio album will be named MDNA, the pop superstar has revealed.

Speaking to British comedian Graham Norton in an interview for The Graham Norton Show, Mads revealed the name.

MDNA is Madonna's first album as part of her 360 deal with Live Nation and Interscope. The nature of 360 deals is that the deal maker gets a slice of all of Madonna's profits, not just from album sales. The name is a play on 'MDMA' ' the active ingredient in the drug ecstasy.

It will also be her first album not released through Warner Bros., who have had her on their roster since her 1982 debut.

The album has already made headlines after a Spanish man was arrested over the leak of the album's first single, Gimme All Your Luvin'. At the time Madonna expressed her disappointment in the leaker, who was never identified.

The single, which features vocals from M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj will be released at the end of January, just in time for her Superbowl performance. The album will be released in March.

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Madonna: I date for love

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added: 12 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna 'just happened' to begin dating much younger men.

The superstar is currently in a relationship with 24-year-old French dancer Brahim Zaibat.

Madonna does not discriminate romantically based on age.

"I didn't choose to, you know, I didn't, like, write down on a piece of paper -- I'm now going to have a relationship with a younger man," Madonna told Cynthia McFadden in an interview for American news programme Nightline. "That's just what happened. You see, that's the romantic in me. I just met someone that I cared for, and this happened to be his age."

Although Madonna is content with her romantic life currently, the twice-divorced singer admits that she longs for matrimony sometimes.

"[I miss] certain things [about marriage like] being a part of a family unit [and] not having to make all the decisions on my own,' she explained.

Madonna's love life is nothing extraordinary. Her romantic routine is rote.

"I go home and I wash my face and I put on my sweatpants and I lay down on the bed and I say, 'oh, please rub my feet,' and you know, [Brahim] says, 'no, you rub my feet. So, you know, behind the curtain, I'm just like everybody else."

Madonna divorced from her first husband actor Sean Penn in 1989.

The star has 11-year-old son Rocco with her ex-husband director Guy Ritchie and 15-year-old daughter Lourdes from a previous relationship.

The singer is currently busy promoting her directorial debut W.E.

Madonna's interview will air in full on Nightline in America tonight.

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Quick quips: Sinead O'Connor, Madonna, Beach Boys, Harry Connick Jr., Peter Criss

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added: 13 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Sinead O'Connor has admitted that she was overdosing when she put out the plea on Twitter Wednesday for medical help. She told the Sun ""I took an overdose. God obviously wants me around, though I can't think why."

Madonna doesn't mince words about Lady Gaga in an interview with Newsweek. She said her reaction upon hearing Gaga's Born This Way and noticing the similarities to her own Express Yourself, "I thought, 'What a wonderful way to redo my song.' I mean, I recognized the chord changes. I thought it was. interesting."
She actually does like the singer, whom she considers much like herself. On this week's Graham Norton Show, she says "When I first saw her, I was really impressed by her and she was cool. She did remind me of me back in the day. I do think she is very talented."

The Beach Boys have a drummer lined up for their 50th Anniversary Tour. They'll bring back old stand-by from their 90's tours, actor John Stamos.

Harry Connick, Jr. starts a four week run next Wednesday as Mariska Hargitay's love interest on Law & Order: SVU. He may want to see if he can stretch that job out a bit longer as his current job on Broadway, starring in the revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, will close on January 29. In total, the show will have played 29 preview and 57 regular performances.

Peter Criss, former drummer for KISS, and Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa, Missing Persons) will be inducted as Drum Legends by the Guitar Center retail chain. They will be honored on January 14.

Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn have signed with Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) for a new book detailing the behind the scenes activities of the original MTV veejays. The fifth of the original crew, J.J. Jackson, died in 2004.

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Madonna: I�m a romantic

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added: 10 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Madonna wonders what it would be like to be 'loved' profusely.

The 53-year-old superstar directed and co-wrote upcoming drama W.E. which chronicles British King Edward VIII's romance with American divorcee Wallis Simpson for whom he abdicated the throne in the 1930s.

Madonna is intrigued with the pair's deep love affair.

'When [Wally] says 'I wonder what it was like to have been loved that much?' I think I probably said that to myself,' Madonna told Radio Times.

'Men want power and they will kill to have it. If you look back in history, how many wars have been waged to win the throne? And here's a man who walked away from that for love. And so for a romantic like me, I would say: 'Wow, to be loved like that!' And Wally feels the same way - she wants to be loved like that.'

Madonna respects the power King Edward sacrificed to be with his love. The star identifies with his actions.

'What Edward gave up was huge, monumental, but I also don't think that he realised that when he abdicated he was never going to be allowed to come back into the country,' she explained.

'I've been asked many times if I would give up everything for love. And I think it's important to understand that with love, and in all relationships, you have to give up something.'

Madonna divorced from her first husband actor Sean Penn in 1989.

The star has 11-year-old son Rocco with her ex-husband director Guy Ritchie and 15-year-old daughter Lourdes from a previous relationship.

She is currently dating 24-year-old dancer Brahim Zaibat.

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