UK comedians French and Saunders excellent spoof of the Madonna and Britney Me Against The Music video will be featured on their compilation show I Can't Believe It's Music on BBC1 at 9.30pm on Friday 01 April.

A new picture of Madonna and Guy visiting the London Kabbalah Centre was published in the latest issue of Hello! magazine (06 April issue 861).

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Richard Johnson's Page Six gossip column in the New York Post today featured this item:

That Mel Brooks' son Eddie Brooks, who is in the music business, is working on a tribute album to his dad which will feature pop stars like Elton John, Madonna and U2 singing Mel-composed songs from his films....

Today's edition of UK newspaper the Daily Star talks about the upcoming ITV Madonna tribute special Madonna Mania. The show will air on Saturday 16 April.

Madonna herself was reportedly contacted to appear on the show, but declined saying that she is too far away from retirement to appear on a homage to her, and she is busy with lots of other projects!

madonnalicious visitor Franck took this picture of the new Madonna display at the Versace store in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan.

Boy George just can't seem to stop talking about Madonna, this time he admits he is jealous of her. However this may all have something to do with the fact he has a book out and has to publicise it, and what better way to get yourself in the press than by talking about Madonna!

Pop stalwart Boy George has tempered his bitter feud with Madonna by confessing he's jealous of the Material Girl's standing as the number one gay icon.
The Karma Chameleon star infuriated Madonna last month when he slammed her for embracing the Kabbalah, the mystical offshoot of Judaism, claiming it preaches that homosexuality is a disease.
Madonna hit back, vehemently denying the Kabbalah is homophobic.
But rather than further fuel their war of words, openly homosexual George admits he's fascinated by Madonna's ever-changing image and outlook on life - and is a little jealous of her high position in gay culture.
He says, 'It would be dishonest to say that there wasn't a degree of jealousy, not that it's something I lose sleep over. I don't think about her day and night.'
'If someone like Madonna changes her morality and her stance on things people just accept it, whereas somebody else would be dragged over the coals for doing that. That amazes me and it is fascinating. She is very fascinating.'

The controversy surrounding Madonna and Guy's choice of Purim party costumes continues to run in the US press. Guy dressing as The Pope has caused outrage in some Catholic circles, expecially as The Pope is in ill health at the moment.
A picture of Madonna and Guy dressed as a nun and the Pope was splashed across the front page of the New York Post this morning.

Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg said:
They went to a costume party. There wasn't disrespect intended at all. That's just somebody looking for a problem when there isn't one.

To read the New York Post story, click here.

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in an unusual manner on Thursday - by dressing up as a nun and the Pope.
The couple were spotted on the streets of London as they made their way to a Kabbalah party to celebrate the holiday, which commemorates the day Queen Esther saved the Jewish people living in ancient Persia from extermination.
Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, tells MTV, 'Yes, she was dressed as a nun and Guy was dressed as the pope. Some Catholic groups are saying stuff, but Purim is a joyous holiday occasion.'
'Madonna and Guy had a great time drinking and dancing. It's funny, because she said that she was happy that the pictures of her are out there because her father would be so proud. She said that when she was a girl she wanted to be a nun and she guesses that she's still a nun at heart.'

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Today's edition of the NY Post features a new picture of Madonna cycling to the Kabbalah Centre in London.

For a larger, full length version of the picture please visit www.drownedmadonna.com

UK newspaper the Daily Star featured three pictures of Madonna at her video shoot in West London on Friday. Madonna is shown arriving in a black outfit and later in two evening dresses during the video shoot.

Clearly a lot of effort has been put into the costumes which Madonna will be wearing in her new music video. But there is one person who is less-than-impressed at what her mum is wearing - Madge's eight-year-old daughter Lourdes.
Mum arrived in a smart black get-up before putting on some cleavage bearing frocks. The 46-year-old Like A Virgin singer spent more time changing her outfits than actually singing when she recorded the film in West London. But then she is a Material Girl.

UK newspaper the Sunday Mirror featured a picture of Madonna on-set in London shooting a new video....does this mean new material is on the way?

Madonna and Guy attended the Purim celebrations on Thursday evening at the Kabbalah Centre in London in fancy dress with Madonna dressed as a nun and Guy as the Pope.

Many of today's UK newspapers ran with the pictures, some just commenting on Madonna being Like A Virgin again, others accusing her and Guy of provoking religious furor by their choice of costumes!

Click on the image for a larger picture of Madonna and Guy (scan from The Mail On Sunday).

A one-off Sky One TV program 50 Terrible Predictions looks at the worst predictions ever made throughout history, included is the prediction that Madonna would be a flash-in-the-pan!

At the start of her career Madonna was dismissed as a flash in the pan.
Warner Brothers UK would not pay her train fare to appear on TV show The Tube in 1984 as she was not seen as a priority act.
Billboard Magazine editor, Paul Grein predicted: 'Cyndi Lauper will be around for a lond time - Madonna will be out of the business in six months.'
She is currently the most successful female chart act of all time, with worldwide sales in excess of 140 million records, has amassed an unequalled 35 consecutive UK Top 10 singles and her earnings are said to be in excess of £215 million.

50 Terrible Predictions airs on UK channel Sky One on Monday 28 March at 9.00pm.

Madonna's official website www.madonna.com has updated with a Mario Testino shot picture from the Ray Of Light sessions.

Fans of Luca Tommassini, the dancer who worked with Madonna on The Girlie Show, can catch him judging dance contestants on the new BBC One reality TV show Strictly Dance Fever which airs on Saturday nights.

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The London flagship store of Versace in New Bond Street features in one of it's two windows a large display featuring Madonna.

 

Today's edition of UK newspaper the Daily Mirror featured a picture of Madonna heading to the Linda Meredith beauty salon in London on Wednesday, and then later leaving Drones restaurant with Guy. Click on the image to view the original article.

The US version of Elle (April 2005 issue) features another Versace advert.

madonnalicious can now bring you a HQ scan of this advert.

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News is coming in from Warner Music info for deutchMarkt is that a German release date for the Re-Invention tour DVD has been provisionally set for 04 December 2005.

More interesting news is that there is a possible new single release in June (maybe to help cross-promote the tour documentary) and the news that a follow-up to the 1995 ballad collection Something To Remember will follow in December 2005.

Pop queen Madonna has dashed the dreams of Desperate Housewives fans hoping she would make a cameo appearance - she is actually totally unaware of the hit show's existence.
Rumours that the Material Girl was keen to appear in the series have been proved false, and it seems the British-based icon is too preoccupied with her devotion to Kabbalah to watch TV.
Her spokesperson tells website THE SCOOP, 'I can guarantee you that she's not even familiar with the show.'

Looks like Madonna was getting ready for the Jewish Purim celebrations tonight by taking time out yesterday to have a facial at the Linda Meredith health and beauty clinic in London.

To view the pictures of Madonna arriving at the salon click here, here and here.

Pop beauty Gwen Stefani had one intention when she made her debut album Love Angel Music Baby - to filter the favourite sounds of her childhood through contemporary producers like Dr Dre.
Stefani wanted to capture the essence of dancing to Madonna and Depeche Mode in the 1980s, and decided the best way to go about that would be to enlist the talents of pals like The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams and Outkast star Andre 3000.
She says, 'I used to go dancing at Disneyland because there was a club in there and I lived across the street so I'd sneak in.'
'I love all that music even though I couldn't admit it then. Imagine, like Madonna had just come out, no-one had ever seen her before. It was like, 'Who the f**k is that?'
'I wasn't into all that at the time - Madonna and Depeche Mode - but as I grew up I realised that all that music, the stuff that was popular at the time, was the backdrop of my life.'
'So I wanted to take that music and make it into a modern record that made me feel good but make it with modern people from the clubs today like Dre and Andre 3000 and Pharrell.'

The Material Girl was up for the part of French disco singing-legend Dalida in a lavish mini-series for French TV. But the role ultimately went to Italian actress Sabrina Ferelli.
'The producers didn't want a diva to play another diva, ' says a source close to the production.

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Fellow fansite MadonnaTribe reported that Madonna had a photoshoot in London on Monday with an unknown photographer. The original photographer slated for the shoot, Mark Liddell, had to cancel due to surgery.

Maybe this photoshoot is to promote the forthcoming Re-Invention tour documentary.

Fellow fansite DrownedMadonna are reporting that BBC Radio 2 are producing a three-part radio documentary to be aired sometime this year.
There are no details available yet on what the documentary will focus on.

Rapper-turned-actor Andre 3000 was so starstruck when Madonna paid an unexpected visit to the set of her husband Guy Ritchie's upcoming movie Revolver he was unable to continue filming.
The Outkast star - who has now turned his attention to achieving Hollywood stardom - only regained his composure after engaging Like A Virgin singer Madonna in conversation.
He says, 'After I got over it, we sat and talked for awhile. She's cool, though, real cool.'

The most famous shopping street in Beverly Hills was closed off as the quirky beauty and a host of celebs cruised in for a bash honouring fashion photographers Mario Testino, a favourite of Princess Diana, and the late Herb Ritts.
Hosted by Oscar winner Anjelica Huston, the party brought together big names from film and fashion, including Lauren Bacall, Patrick Swayze and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Ritts, who died in 2002, and Testino each received a permanent plaque which will be placed in the pavement along the Walk of Style on Rodeo Drive. An outdoor photo exhibition by the renowned snappers, featuring portraits of A-listers such as Madonna, Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston, will be on display until May 1.

Mark Cherry, the creator of hit US-TV show Desperate Housewives spoke recently about possible guest stars for the show.
He hinted that 'a well known, famous pop-diva' was very interested in visiting Wisteria Lane.
Although there are plenty of pop-divas out there, could we be seeing Madonna as a Desperate Housewife?

Madonna has recorded an audio CD of her reading from the first five of her childrens books The English Roses, Mr Peabody's Apples, Yakov and the Seven Thieves, The Adventures of Abdi and Lotsa De Casha.

The books will appear on one CD (of 75 minutes in length) and will also contain a booklet, a provisional release date of 01 September 2005 has been announced.

Sign the petition here if you would love to see the Virgin Tour and the Blond Ambition tour finally released on DVD for the first time!

Bruce Baron sent in this excerpt from the Electronic Musician interview with songwriter David Frank about the early Madonna demo-song Crimes of Passion.
Bruce has added his extra notes about the history of this song:

....but Lou said, 'Why don't you do a song? You know, a dance song, a 12-inch. Just get a singer, you can do it!'
Frank programmed a song in a few weeks, but he still needed a singer. Why not ask the girl upstairs?, he thought. 'The girl upstairs was Madonna,' Frank explains. 'This was in 1981, before she had a record deal. We were in a pickup band together, and she was the singer. We rehearsed in the same building, called the Music Building, on 37th Street and 8th Avenue. I was actually paid to write with her. I made $30 for four hours of work,' he laughs.
Frank had only the title for the song, 'Crimes of Passion.' He brought in the future mogul to write some words and a melody. Then fate intervened. 'We were all set to do it. But the night before we were going to cut the song, Madonna called me and asked if Steve Bray, her drummer, could be in on the session as coproducer. I love Steve, but I knew he would want to put guitars on the track. I had visualized it as a synth-only song, which was still a bit of a novelty at that time.'
The conflict meant that Madonna was out. 'I called up Mic Murphy, a singer I knew,' Frank continues. 'He wrote a new melody for the song and changed the words to 'In Times of Passion.' We recorded and mixed all of it in one day. He took it to a friend of his, who cut an acetate, a 12-inch, and we got a record deal with Atlantic the next day.'

Bruce Baron notes:
Madonna and Bray obviously did their own version whch appeared on the release 'Pre-Madonna'.
Mic Murphy and David Frank went on to form the pop duo The System. They charted several dance hits including 'Don't Disturb This Groove'.
Mic Murphy is credited as a co-writer to the 'Erotica' era unreleased Madonna song 'Dear Father' along with Andre Betts. Mic Murphy also played with Bray and Madonna during her early demo days.
David Frank co-wrote Christina Aguilera's hit 'Genie In A Bottle'.
Stephen Bray recently wrote songs with Brenda Russell for the muscial 'The Color Purple'.

Fans only have a short time to enter three Madonna competitions at the Madonna Memories fansite.

Also check out the collection of rare magazine scans in the gallery - like this picture on the right.

Welsh singer-songwriter Jem spoke to BBC News about her career and spoke about what it felt like to write Nothing Fails for Madonna:

'It was just too crazy to comprehend,' she said when she was asked how she felt about Madonna selecting her song. 'It was just so incredible.'
Jem, who was brought up in Penarth, decided on a career in singing at the age of 13 and pursued her interest while she was studying for a law degree at Sussex University in Brighton.
After graduating, she returned to Wales to record demos and then worked with producer Guy Sigsworth, who she wrote the song Nothing Fails with, which was used by Madonna on her American Life album.

The April 2005 issue of In Style magazine (German edition) features one Versace advert and a small feature the history and other residents of the American houses Madonna has lived in. (Click on the article to enlarge)

 

The UK version of Esquire (April 2005 issue) features another Versace advert.

madonnalicious can now bring you a HQ scan of this advert.

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madonnalicious visitor Steve sent in this picture of the window display of the Versace store in New York City which features Madonna.

Fellow fansite MadonnaTribe have a report from the recording of the ITV Madonna tribute show Madonna Mania which took place yesterday in London.
To read the full report of the recording please visit MadonnaTribe.

The acts and songs featured were:
Javine - Vogue
Katherine Jenkins - Frozen
Nikki Sanderson - Material Girl
Liberty X - Like A Prayer
G4 - Crazy For You
Debra Stephenson - Music
All acts - Music

madonnalicious visitor Peter informs us that the show will be aired on ITV1 on Saturday 16 April.

Madonna's official website www.madonna.com have updated the front page with this montage of pictures from the Vogue video.

Madonna will pay tribute to New York on her next album with a new song called I Love New York.
She has already recorded the track for the as-yet-untitled follow-up album to 2003's American Life.
The 46-year-old popstar left her Michigan home in the early 80s to pursue her musical dreams in the Big Apple.
Madonna is once again working with French producer Mirwais who collaborated on American Life and 2000's Music albums, as well as Stuart Price - her musical director on her Reinvention Tour on the album.
The mother-of-two today lives with husband Guy Ritchie deep in the Wiltshire countryside and enjoys spending time in London's pubs.
There is still no confirmed release date for Madonna's album.

Due to some server maintenance taking place this week I won't be able to update the news on madonnalicious until Friday night/Saturday morning.
The rest of the site should be working fine, so take the time to have a look around.

Madonna continues to plug away at her new album, and while questions are rampant about what it will sound like and who she's working with, at least the latter part of those queries can now be answered. According to her label rep, Madonna's teamed up once again with French producer Mirwais as well as Stuart Price, her musical director on the Reinvention Tour. At least one song title is known so far: 'I Love New York.'

Looks like Madonna may return to the silver screen.
The spiritual girl is being coached by her Kabbalah advisers that now would be a good time to get back into acting in a big way, says a well-placed source.
'There was some hope that she might become the main pitchwoman for Kabbalah energy drink, but then it was decided that now was the opportune time for her to further her acting career,' says the insider. 'So they’re hoping that Ashton Kutcher will step up to the plate and pitch it.'
Madonna’s rep dismisses the talk. 'I’ve heard this rumor before. I can’t imagine where it came from,' Liz Rosenberg told The Scoop. 'Madonna is currently in the studio working on a new album, editing a documentary film of her last tour, working on a sequel to The English Roses, her best selling children’s book and of course busy with her family. I wouldn’t rule out acting in her future but her plate seems pretty full at the moment.'

UK newspaper the Metro featured this item in The Green Room gossip column this morning:

Madonna is in secret talks about providing the theme tune for husband Guy Ritchie's next ganster film, Revolver. 'It's all down to timing as she is also writing material for her new album,' a source said.

Madonna's long-time backing singer Donna DeLory is performing at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City on Saturday 16 April - for more information on the event visit www.jivamuktiyoga.com

Donna DeLory is a singer and songwriter whose voice and sound seem to transcend time and genre. Her music is a seamless blend of east and west, a beautiful hybrid of English lyrics and devotional Sanskrit mantras set to modern melodies and grooves. Donna's most recent CD, The Lover & The Beloved, is a top-selling CD at Jivamukti.
'If I can inspire people or help them with their healing, if I can help them appreciate the people they love more or get in touch with their own bliss, then I've done what I'm here to do.'

Yesterday's edition of the Daily Mirror listed some of the acts due to take part in the Madonna tribute programme Madonna Mania - they included G4, Javine, Liberty X, Katherine Jenkins and soap stars Nikki Sanderson and Debra Stephenson.
More acts are to be announced later.

Visit www.madonna-tv.com for another great Re-Invention tour diary, this time featuring previously unseen footage of Madonna's first-ever concert in Ireland.

The cover artwork for Madonna's fifth childrens book Lotsa De Casha has been changed to this new version (see right).

The book will be published in the UK on 02 June and the US on 07 June 2005.

Warner Music Group Corp., home to Madonna and Linkin Park, on Friday revealed plans for an initial public offering, filing with regulators to sell up to $750 million of common stock.
In its Securities and Exchange Commission statement, the company did not estimate how many shares or at what price it planned to offer its stock, but said shares will be sold by both the company and several shareholders. Warner Music, one of the world's largest record companies, plans to list its stock on either the New York Stock Exchange or on the Nasdaq.
Proceeds from the deal will be used to repay debt and for general corporate purposes, according to the SEC document, submitted Friday.

Madonna's official website www.madonna.com have updated the front page with this stunning shot taken last year by Steven Klein for the Re-Invention tourbook.

Liz Rosenberg certainly has had a busy few days answering back in the press, here is what she had to say in the PageSix column in the New York Post today:

Madonna is firing back at Boy George after the '80s pop star blasted her for cynically bilking her gay fans.
George says Madonna's devotion to Kabbalah is the ultimate act of hypocrisy. 'It's ironic that she's joined an organization that says homosexuality is a disease that can be cured and no one picks her up on it,' George told the London Times. 'After making all those millions of dollars out of gay people, pretending to kiss girls, pretending to be a lesbian! I think she's cynical.'
But Madonna's rep, Liz Rosenberg, says George is the one being cynical. 'There's not enough room on PAGE SIX to respond to Boy George's ridiculous accusations,' she told our Jared Paul Stern, 'much less list Madonna's long-standing passion, love, commitment and devotion to the gay community which has not changed for 20 years.'
Rosenberg insists Kabbalah does 'not discriminate against homosexuals, nor do they work toward changing anyone's sexual preference. I wish Boy George would go back to writing songs....Does he ever have anything nice to say about anyone?'

Madonna was featured in an article in the Evening Standard tonight about the so-called latest fashion craze of wearing pyjamas as day wear!

And yesterday Madonna, always one to be at the cutting edge of fashion, was also seen sporting the pyjama look.
The pop-star - dressed in a pair of navy blue pyjamas, a winter coat, hat and scarf - was leaving a women's health centre in North London when she was spotted in what is more commonly nightwear.

Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg has replied to the rumours that surfaced yesterday about an upcoming MTV Madonna Special in which Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott were due to appear.
When asked whether there was any truth to the story, Liz replied: 'Not true at all'

Madonna's follow-up to 'Truth or Dare,' an as-yet-untitled documentary about her Reinvention Tour, looks 'very likely' to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, to be held May 11-22, according to the singer's rep. The documentary was directed by Jonas Akerlund, who chronicled her tour and the 'new' Madonna. A theatrical release is planned for later this year.

As madonnalicious published last week, the likely date for the premiere is 21 May.

News is coming in to madonnalicious that these extras are being considered for the Re-Invention tour DVD due out in October/November this year:

- 20 minute featurette entitled: Jamie King: Creating a Re-Invention
- tourbook gallery
- And most interestingly something that is described as 5 Stage Film Features.... could this be the background videos we all want to see? Let's hope so!

Some rumours are coming from the forum at britneyspears.org which suggest that Britney co-wrote a song entitled Mona Lisa to perform on an MTV special dedicated to Madonna which is/was due to air this autumn.
There was also talk of Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott as hosts, with appearances from Britney, Christina Aguilera and Babyface.

Madonna's face was seen adorning a large illuminated billboard advertising the radio station Radio Zet last week in the centre of Warsaw, Poland.

madonnalicious visitor Darren, a student from Ireland, is currently writing a dissertation and has picked Madonna as his subject.
If you want to take part in a survey that Darren has made to help him gather information on Madonna and her fans, then please click here.

UK TV company Granada are producing a tribute programme to Madonna called Madonnamania. This show will be part of a successful franchise that includes Abbamania and Discomania, where other musicians perform the featured artist's songs.

The filming of the show is taking place next week at the TV studios in Wembley, London. These shows usually air on prime-time Saturday night TV.

Madonna herself will not make an appearance, and details of the acts performing covers of her songs have not yet been released.

A new book on vintage t-shirts is currently being put together for London publishers Carlton Books. The book will published early next year in the UK, USA and France.

The authors are looking for Madonna fans who may have some vintage Madonna t-shirts from the 1980's for a section in the book focusing on 1980's Music.

If you have an original Madonna t-shirt (or even a collection of t-shirts) from the 1980's and would like to submit a picture for possible inclusion in the book then please follow these instructions:

T-shirts ideally must be from the 80s - the earlier the better!
They have to be photographed straight on at 300dpi and saved as a JPG or a TIFF.
Pictures should be of the highest quality possible, so should be taken in good light and ideally laid flat on a white background. T-shirts don't have to be ironed!

Pictures should be emailed to vintage_tees@yahoo.co.uk

Any fans who have vintage t-shirts in the following categories - street, sport, TV, film, punk, skateboarding - can also submit them to the same email address.

Liz Smith's column in the NY Post today mentions that Madonna is one of several stars wanted for an AmFAR photograph to help promote AIDs awareness:

Kenneth Cole, the handsome, smart new chairman of the board of AmFAR, was out in Hollywood last Oscar weekend. We ran into him at Elton John's jammed-to-the-rafters fete. But Kenneth, accompanied by his terrific wife, Maria Cuomo, wasn't there simply to party. He was networking and corralling stars for his big idea - a photograph, which will be published in December on World AIDS Day, of all the prominent scientists and activists who have given time, money, heart and soul to the cause. Mark Seliger is taking the pictures.
So far Kenneth - who is putting his own money into this effort - has snared Greg Louganis, Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell, Elton John and David Furnish, Desmond Tutu, Dr. David Ho, Dr. Suniti Solomon, Harry Belfonte, Sharon Stone and, but of course, Miss Elizabeth Taylor, the woman who started it all back in 1985 when she co-founded AmFAR with Dr. Mathilde Krim. Madonna is in Cole's sight-line, among others. (Stars who can't get together at the same time will later be digitally joined in the massive picture.)
Kenneth Cole is working to attract a young, hot star to AmFAR's cause. AIDS infection rates have risen alarmingly among young people who don't remember the bad old days, and think, absurdly, even if they are infected, drugs can 'cure' them.

A great picture of Madonna snapped in New York City last month was published in the NY Daily News magazine 25 Hours this weekend with the tagline: Madonna, don't be coy! We still know it's you under there.

To view a larger version of the picture visit MadonnaMegaCollection

News is coming in from Warner France that Madonna's Re-Invention tour documentary is provisionally called The Re-Invented Process and that a premiere of the film is currently scheduled for Saturday 21 May at the Cannes Film Festival.

Premieres in London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris are hoped to follow in June.

Here is another picture of Madonna taken in New York City last week as she visited the Kabbalah Centre.

A documentary on photographer David Lachapelle, which includes a feature on his work with Madonna, will be broadcast on the US TV channel Trio on Saturday 19 March at 8.00pm.

For more information about Trio and dates for further screenings of the documentary - visit their website on www.triotv.com and search under 'photo'.

Two of Madonna's Versace adverts are featured in the April issue of US magazine Rolling Stone.

 

A consortium of Sri Lankan musicians is trying to recruit the likes of Elton John, Madonna and Ricky Martin to lend their support to the tsunami-relief effort in the form of song contributions that will appear on a benefit album already in the works.
Funds raised through sales of the record will aid rebuilding efforts in countries devastated by the December 26 catastrophe, The Associated Press reports.
Asoka Gunawardena, a spokesperson for United Artists of Sri Lanka, told the wire service that the group is eyeing a March 26 release date for One Nation, One World, One Love. The album would hit store shelves exactly three months after the disaster occurred.
'This album is produced as a tribute to all those who passed and all those who came for our help in this worst natural disaster,' Gunawardena told reporters Wednesday.
The assemblage of Sri Lankan artists has reached out to several U.S. music label representatives for contributions, the AP reports. The 18-song album will also feature singers from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia and the Maldives. Tsunami Relief&'58; What You Can Do To Help
Gunawardena said that sales of the compilation will support the construction of schools in the recovering region, as well as the erection of a memorial in Sri Lanka, one of the hardest-hit areas.

Madonna's official website www.madonna.com have updated the front page again, this time with a shot of Madonna showing Rosie O'Donnell some yoga moves in 1998.

The UK version of Vanity Fair (April 2005 issue) features the latest Versace advert.

madonnalicious can now bring you a HQ scan of this advert for the first time.

Click on the image to enlarge.

Channel 4 are running another poll, this time to find the 100 Greatest Albums for a new TV program to be broadcast later in the year.

Madonna's Like A Prayer is in the list - and once you have voted for your top ten, you can suggest another five albums that should be included in the top 100 - maybe the multi-Grammy award winning Ray Of Light should be included?

To vote, visit the Channel 4 website here.

Southbeach The Nightclub in Houston are holding a Madonnarama night in tribute to all things Madonna.

The event takes place on Saturday 12 March - and more information can be obtained by clicking on the flyer.

The April issue of US magazine Vanity Fair which has just been published features four pages of Versace adverts.

The April issue of UK music magazine Q features Madonna as one of the Five Essential Acts in music. Madonna is joined in this list by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, U2 and The Velvet Underground.

The magazine lists Like A Prayer as her definitive album saying:
And if you only buy one album....Like A Prayer. Always more interesting when not seeking novelty, Madonna hit artistic and commercial gold with Like A Prayer, her best and least contrived album. The title track, all swirling choruses and kitchen-sink production, remains her major statement, but Express Yourself was ferocious dance, while on the rarely lauded Dear Jessie she had never sounded so human.

The magazine also lists what they consider to be Madonna's essential singles:
Holiday, Borderline, Material Girl, Like A Virgin, Crazy For You, Into The Groove, Papa Don't Preach, La Isla Bonita, Open Your Heart, Live To Tell, Who's That Girl, Causing A Commotion, Vogue, Justify My Love, Ray Of Light, Frozen, Drowned World/Substitute For Love, Beautiful Stranger, Music, Hollywood.

The latest issue of French magazine Public features a recent picture of Madonna leaving a meeting at the Mercer Hotel in New York City. The magazine highlights the fact that she has the word CLOUD written on her hand....

A new Peter Rauhofer remix of Mother and Father will be featured on Peter's new disc LIVE@THE ROXY 4.