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The Queen postpones a scheduled concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA due to terrorist airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, New York, NY and the Pentagon, Washington, DC. Several changes were made to the final shows in Los Angeles after the  September 11 attacks : Madonna wore an American flag kilt during the show's opening segment as a display of  patriotism , the closing of "Mer Girl" (part II) was altered to remove the staged shooting of a character; Madonna instead put the gun down, hugged him and they left the stage together. The macabre cannibalism-themed "Funny Song" was removed.   Additionally, as a surprise for Madonna at the final concert date, her husband at the time,  Guy Ritchie , appeared as the lost technician at the end of "Beautiful Stranger", the Samurai during "Sky Fits Heaven" wore  Los Angeles Lakers  jerseys. Also, all of the dancers joined in for the final dance section of "Holiday", which ...

[September 10 1998] Madonna performed “Shanti/Ashtangi” and “Ray Of Light” at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California.                                           Madonna-Shanti Ashtangi & Ray Of Light (Live at MTV VMA 1998)  “Ray Of Light” won Best Video, Best Female Video, Best Direction (Jonas Åkerlund), Best Choreography, Best Editing and “Frozen” won Best Special Effects.

Liz Smith  shows once again her love for  Madonna  wishing her good luck for tonight’s opening show of the  Rebel Heart Tour . And she adds something very exciting about the tour and how great it is. Check it out: …Today, in Montreal,  Madonna  kicks off her “ Rebel Heart Tour “. Those who have seen the show in rehearsal say  it is her greatest yet, simply magnificent.  But don’t tell  her  that. She is never satisfied. Once she is done with an album, a movie, a concert tour, a man she’s done. But while she’s working on something, she is constantly tinkering, re-doing, re-playing, re-thinking. And when it’s over, it’s over. No complaining or explaining. The present and the future exist for Madonna. The past holds no interest. Nostalgia is just a nine-letter word. Good luck, tonight, honey!

1994 : At the  1994 MTV Video Music Awards  on September 8, shortly after a profanity-laced appearance on the  Late Show with David Letterman ,  Madonna  was announced to present the award for Best Video of the Year. She came out, arm-in-arm with an unannounced  David Letterman , to a wild ovation. At the microphone, Letterman told her, "I'll be out by the car. Watch your language," and left.                                                                                          

 

" Holiday " is a song by  Madonna  from her eponymous debut studio album  Madonna  (1983).  Sire Records  released it as the album's third single on September 7, 1983. "Holiday" later appeared remixed on the remix compilation  You Can Dance  (1987) and the greatest hits compilation  The Immaculate Collection  (1990), and in its original form on the greatest hits album  Celebration  (2009). Written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens of  Pure Energy , the track was offered to Madonna by her producer  John "Jellybean" Benitez  when she was looking for a potential hit track to include in her debut album.  After accepting the song, she and Jellybean worked on it and altered its composition by the addition of a piano solo performed by their friend,  Fred Zarr .