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On her very first live tour, The Virgin Tour, Madonna plays the first of three nights at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA. The show had made history by selling 19,000 tickets in 35 minutes.
On her Who's That Girl tour, Madonna plays at Soldier's Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Tokyo Dome stadium is opened in Tokyo, Japan, Asia. It will be used for major sporting events and also concerts by superstars including Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and the Backstreet Boys.
On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna plays the second of two nights at Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour plays the last of three nights at The Skydome, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The local police, mindful of complaints of lewdness, ‘review’ the show.
The movie Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty and Madonna is released in theatres across the USA.
Madonna's Blond Ambition concert tour as blasphemous due to the shows' overtly sexual and religious content. They also announce plans to have her concerts in Rome and Turin cancelled.
Roman Catholic groups condemn
On her Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna plays at Olympia-Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany, Europe.
Madonna releases Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90 on VHS and LaserDisc by Warner-Pioneer, exclusively to the Japanese market.
On her Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna plays at Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid, Spain, Europe.
On her Blonde Ambition tour, Madonna plays at Estadi Olimpic De Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain, Europe.
Madonna's video for the song Justify My Love, recently banned by MTV, is aired in full on ABC-tv's Nightline.
Michael Jackson escorts Madonna to the 63rd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, where she performs Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man) by Stephen Sondheim from the film Dick Tracy.
Former Warner Bros UK publicists Moira Bellas and Barbra Charone start up their own company, MBC PR, in London, England, UK, Europe. The company will quickly become successful and will handle clients including Madonna, Depeche Mode, Dido, Simply Red, Robert Plant, Pearl Jam, Rod Stewart, Keith Richards and Elvis Costello, Maroon 5 to name but a few.
The Live8 Concert in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, (and several other cities worldwide), features artists including Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Muse, Razorlight, Scissor Sisters, Paul McCartney, Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Sting, Robbie Williams, U2, Stevie Wonder, R.E.M., The Cure, Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, The Killers and Snow Patrol.
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On her Sticky
And Sweet Tour, Madonna plays at Estadio Vincente Calderon, Madrid, Spain, Europe.
On her Sticky And Sweet Tour, Madonna plays the second of two nights at Vallehovin, Oslo, Norway, Europe.
On her Sticky
And Sweet Tour, Madonna plays at Parc Izvor, Bucharest, Romania, Europe.
While on a week-long charity tour of Malawi, Africa, Madonna lays the first brick symbolising the commencement of the construction of her US$15m Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.
Madonna is in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the South Of France, Europe, scouting locations for her next movie, W.E..
Beyonce, Madonna and Aretha Franklin perform live for tv presenter and mogul Oprah Winfrey at her surprise farwell celebration in The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rihanna holds a 'prom party' for invited guests only at a hired hall in London, UK. Rihanna spends the evening dressed as Madonna from her Like A Virgin video.
On her MDNA Tour, Madonna deliberately exposes one of her breasts to the audience during a gig in The Turk Telekom Arena, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe.
On the North American leg of her World Tour 2012, Madonna plays at Yankee Stadium, New York City, USA.
When Madonna presents 26-year-old dancer Lil Buck with his award at the WSJ Innovator of the Year Awards in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, USA, the audience barely responds. Madonna then instructs the audience to applaud, declaring, 'I'll tell you when there are applause moments. You need help. This is a museum crowd.' Dr. Dre and his Beats Electronics partner Jimmy Iovine are also presented with awards by Eminem.
Paul McCartney at No2 ($1.2bn) and Herb Alpert at No3 ($850m). Others on the list are Madonna, Dr. Dre, P. Diddy, Celine Dion, Bono of U2, Jay-Z and Mariah Carey.
Playback.fm publishes a list of the world's richest living musicians, showing Andrew Lloyd Webber at No1 ($1.2bn),
A 23-minute Madonna documentary entitled World of Madame X is released on paid streaming service Amazon Prime.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the seventh of sixteen shows at Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City, USA.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the first of three shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the second of ten shows at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna cancels a show at The Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, for medical reasons.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the third of seven shows at The Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the eleventh of fifteen shows at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the last of fourteen shows at Le Grand Rex, Paris, France, Europe.
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