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In 2004, Madonna embarked on The Re-Invention Tour, which featured fifty-six dates in the US, Canada, and Europe and became the highest-grossing tour of 2004, earning $125 million. Also in 2004, Madonna was involved in a brief legal battle with Warner Music Group, with whom she co-owned record label Maverick. The legal dispute ended with Warner Music Group buying Madonna's shares in the record label.MTV.com "Madonna Parts Ways With The Record Label She Co-Founded," June 2004. Retrieved 6 May, 2006. In January 2005, Madonna performed a cover version of the John Lennon song "Imagine" on the televised U.S. aid concert "Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope", which raised money for the tsunami victims in Asia.
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In 1992 Madonna signed a contract with Time Warner Inc. to create her own record, publishing, and motion-picture company. That same year her book Sex, containing controversial erotic photographs of herself, was published. Madonna later appeared in the films Shadows and Fog (1992), directed by American filmmaker Woody Allen; A League of Their Own (1992); Body of Evidence (1993); Four Rooms (1995); The Next Best Thing (2000); and Swept Away (2002), directed by her husband, Guy Ritchie. In 1996 she had her greatest screen success playing the role of Eva Perón in Evita (1996), the film of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. For this performance she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy film.
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Joining Madonna, the party’s co-host, musical performances will be given by Alicia Keys, Timbaland and Rhianna. There will ... be a special presentation by Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs. Chris Rock will emcee a live auction. The evening’s co-chairs include: Drew Barrymore, Adrien Brody, Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault, Sting and Trudie Styler, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Arpad Busson, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, Téa Leoni and Lucy Liu. [WWD]
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When the family was finally reunited, their father had started a relationship with Joan Gustafson, the family's old housekeeper, and the children were told to call Gustafson 'mother' - something that Madonna refused to do. As the oldest daughter, Madonna found herself with a lot of responsibility in taking care of the younger children and was kept busy with homework and household chores. The whole family was keen on music and all her brothers and sisters played musical instruments except Madonna, who had dancing lessons.
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Im November 1987 veröffentliche Madonna erstmals ein Remix-Album mit dem Titel „You Can Dance“. Damit verabschiedete sich Madonna erstmals eine Weile vom Musikgeschäft, denn 1988 wurde ein eher ruhiges Jahr für Madonna. Sie drehte einen weiteren Film „Bloodhounds Of Broadway“ und war am Broadway in dem ausverkauften Theaterstück „Speed the Plow“ von Mai bis September 1988 zu sehen. Danach bereitete sie ihr neues Album vor: „Like a Prayer“. Das Album verarbeitete ihre gescheiterte Ehe, das komplizierte Verhältnis zu ihrer Familie – und nicht zuletzt ihr gespaltenes Verhältnis zur katholischen Kirche. Das Titellied wurde 2004 von den amerikanischen und deutschen Redaktionen der Musikzeitschrift „Rolling Stone“ zu einem der 100 besten Lieder aller Zeiten gewählt.
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On August 16, 2005, her 47th birthday, Madonna was seriously injured after falling off a horse at Ashcombe House, her Wiltshire home. She suffered three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone, and a broken hand from her fall. Following her accident she filmed the video to her first single, "Hung Up," from her upcoming album "Confessions on a Dance Floor." At the time of filming the high-energy dance video, none of the broken bones had fully healed yet, and she relied heavily on painkillers to complete the video shoot.[15]
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