Pop idol Madonna gave it all in Rio de Janeiro as she looked back on her four-decade career in a historic show before throngs of joyful fans jammed onto Brazil’s famed Copacabana beach on Saturday night.
The 65-year-old singer walked down an elevated bridge from the Copacabana Palace hotel shortly after 10:30 pm (0130 GMT Sunday) to a massive stage for one of the most important shows of her career. Dressed all in black, Madonna broke into her hit “Nothing Really Matters” at the start of a burst of brute energy.
“Rio, here we are in the most beautiful place in the world,” she said at the start of a performance that brought the giddy Brazilian audience to its feet.
The show marked the final stop on her “Celebration Tour” noting her 40 years atop pop charts, in a free event that drew an estimated 1.6 million people from across …
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