Published on: 17th August, 2009
Madonna was greeted by scores of ardent fans who jointly voiced a happy birthday song for her during the ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Tour concert in Warsaw just hours prior to her turning 51.
The fervent fans sang the ritualistic Polish birthday song ‘may you live a hundred years’ during an in-between break period of two songs. Madonna was visibly touched by the mass gesture as she opened her heart out to the crowds about how she felt their love. Scores of fans held up paper-made heart pluck cards close to the stage with some saying ‘Adopt me’.
Her tour stop at Warsaw comes not just a day prior to her birthday but on 15th August that is considered a Roman Catholic holiday, the timing of which has been considered inopportune among several Catholics who venerate the celestial conjecture of Virgin Mary on that day.
Many angry processions by Catholic groups were seen outside the concert complex with many carrying banners and voicing irate slogans with similar processions being undertaken during the weeks prior to the Material’s Girl’s concert at Warsaw on the said date.
Despite Poland having a majority Catholic populace; many youngsters have whole-heartedly taken in the pop culture and ways of life.
Madonna during the course of the concert paid homage to the late Michael Jackson as she proclaimed how Jackson would always be the penultimate super-artist globally. She then went into crooning to the tunes of her famed old hit ‘Holiday’.
A huge depiction of the King of Pop in his infant years hung in the backdrop while a Jackson look-like enacted the King of Pop’s trademark, widely-popular moonwalk moves, donning a spangle jacket, white Tee, gloves and socks.