Madonna, Celebration Tour, review: Back from the brink of death, Madonna has never looked more alive

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1. **From The Telegraph’s Neil McCormick:**

   “Its good to have me back, right?” declared Madonna. Judging by the roaring response, it was presumably a rhetorical question.

   Back from the brink of death, Madonna was determined to show that age and illness have robbed her of none of her daring moves, edgy charisma and transgressive pop instincts.

   Making out with a drag queen version of her younger self during Erotica, indulging in a Buzby Berkly-style choreographed orgy during Justify My Love and cavorting lasciviously with topless dancers for Hung Up, the 65-year-old superstar put the sex in sexagenarian.

   She looked fantastic, in basque and stockings by the second number, albeit with her left leg visibly strapped in a support as she kept up with dancers a third her age.

   Even better, her voice was right on point, in charge of the songs and leading from the front.

   It has been billed as Madonna’s first retrospective tour, a career-spanning greatest hits set and let’s face it, not many pop careers have produced as many smash hits as Madonna’s.

   She really couldn’t have gone far wrong cramming all of her big bangers into a two and a quarter hour all-action production, featuring multiple stages, moving screens, pyrotechnics, lasers and Madonna flying around the arena in a cage singing Ray of Light.

   **Read more here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/madonna-celebration-tour-o2-arena-review/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/madonna-celebration-tour-o2-arena-review/)