Showing posts with label la isla bonita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label la isla bonita. Show all posts

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Charo: "Lady Gaga is Madonna with Diarrhea"


Haha! La Fabulosa Charo has spoken!

Here's Charo singing La Isla Bonita in 1988 at The Big Room in Bally's.


More Charo interview HERE.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Rare Madonna Footage Accepting Award in 1987!



Madonna accepting the Kid's Choice Award for favorite female vocalist in 1987 with the La Isla hair! Never before seen by me, sent by Eric via absolutmentmadonna.fr. Thanks Eric! xo

Friday, April 9, 2010

I'm Going Bananas - La Isla Bonita - The Girlie Show (1993)


Of all Madonna's 8 tours, the essential La Isla Bonita, has appeared on 5 - in completely different incarnations. There hasn't been one performance of this song on any of her tours that I haven't appreciated. The 50's Americana version on Who's that Girl (1987), The Busby Berkeley Hollywood Musical version on The Girlie Show (1993), The Intimate Ranchero version on Drowned World Tour (2001), The discofied Abba-wishes version on Confessions (2006) and The Traveling Carnival Gypsy version on Sticky and Sweet (2008). All have their own vibe with one of the greatest songs she has ever recorded.

The passion and energy of The Girlie Show version has a very special place in Madonna tour history. Invoking all her muses from the dance, music, art, and Hollywood worlds, here Madonna hits a peak performance wise. From her Blond Ambiton tour 3 years earlier, where she upped the ante of rock shows and how they were presented, with The Girlie Show she fine tuned the art of performance and brings all her worlds together in a bombastic flamboyance that left (and still does) all her contemporaries eating her dust. You will find elements of The Girlie Show in every rock show after this - till date. The show woman had grown and matured even further leaving her long time detractors fumbling around desperate to find new ways to state she will be over.




Saturday, April 3, 2010