Madonna Louise Ciccone

Beginning in April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first concert tour in North America, The Virgin Tour, with the Beastie Boys as her opening act. Madonna commented: "That whole tour was crazy, because I went from playing CBGB and the Mudd Club to playing sporting arenas. I played a small theater in Seattle, and the girls had flap skirts on and the tights cut f below their knees and lace gloves and rosaries and bows in their hair and big hoop earrings. After Seattle, all the shows were moved to arenas." In July, Penthouse and Playboy magazines published a number nude photos Madonna, taken in New York in 1978. She had posed for the photographs as she needed money at the time, and was paid as little as $25 a session. The publication the photos caused a media uproar, but Madonna remained defiant and unapologetic. The photographs were ultimately sold for up to $100,000. She referred to the whole experience at the 1985 outdoor Live Aid charity concert saying that she would not take her jacket f because "might hold it against me ten years from now."
2010–present: W.E. and other projects
Madonna performed "Like a Prayer" at the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief concert in January 2010. In March she released her third live album, Sticky & Sweet Tour. It was her first release under Live Nation, but was distributed by Warner Bros. She announced plans directing her second film, W.E., a biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. It was co-written with Alek Keshishian. She later clarified that the film is about a woman's journey and was not going to be about the duchess' life. Instead, the duchess would act as the woman's spiritual guide. Madonna granted American TV show Glee the rights to her entire catalogue music, and the producers planned an episode which would feature Madonna songs exclusively. Titled "The Power Madonna", the episode was approved by her, telling Us Weekly that she found it "brilliant on every level", praising the scripting and the message equality. The episode also received positive reviews from critics. Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly called it "one the best hours TV you’re likely to see all year", writing that the episode pays Madonna "the highest compliment possible" in not just expressing admiration for the singer, but "demonstrat a potent understanding why Madonna matters." Glee: The Music, The Power Madonna, an EP containing eight cover versions Madonna songs featured in the episode was released in May. The EP debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with 98,000 copies sold in the United States.