Sticky & Sweet Tour: Pharrell Williams joins Madonna onstage in NY

Sticky & Sweet Tour: Pharrell Williams rejoint Madonna sur scène à NY.


Pharrell Williams joins Madonna onstage
12/10/2008 14:12:05

Hip-hop star Pharrell Williams thrilled fans by making a surprise appearance onstage with Madonna in New York this weekend (begs11Oct08).
Williams joined the Holiday hitmaker during a gig at Madison Square Gardens on Saturday (11Oct08) to perform the star's hit Give It 2 Me, which he co-wrote and co-produced.
And Madonna used the show to continue her tirade against U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin after slamming the Republican at two previous concerts on her Sticky + Sweet world tour.
She played a screeching note on her guitar and said: "This is the sound of Sarah Palin thinking."
And the Queen of Pop gave out condoms to the crowd with the politician's face on them, saying that she promoted safe sex - a dig at Palin, who has five children, including a teenage daughter who is expecting a baby with her boyfriend.
But the singer showed a more caring side to the crowd by dedicating You Must Love Me to her young daughter Lourdes, telling fans, "My beautiful Lola is 12 today but when I first sang this song she was growing inside me."

Source: Contact Music.


Rapper Williams joins Madonna gig
By John Hand
BBC News, Madison Square Garden, New York
Page last updated at 11:55 GMT, Sunday, 12 October 2008 12:55 UK

Rap star Pharrell Williams has made a surprise appearance with Madonna in a New York date on her world tour.
Williams, who co-produced and sang on Madonna's Hard Candy album earlier this year, joined her on stage during her final song of the show - Give It 2 Me.
Madonna also continued her recent attacks on Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Playing a screeching note on her guitar, she said: "This is the sound of Sarah Palin thinking."
After singing an a capella version of her 1989 hit Express Yourself, she told the crowd: "I'd like to express myself to Sarah Palin right now."
She also threw condoms into the crowd at Madison Square Garden, saying that they promoted safe sex as they had a picture of Mrs Palin on them.
The anti-Republican barbs came a few days after Madonna told another concert audience: "Sarah Palin can't come to my party. Sarah Palin can't come to my show. It's nothing personal."
Throughout the tour, which started in Cardiff on 23 August, Madonna had stoked political controversy with one video segment which splices an image of Republican presidential nominee John McCain among those of Adolf Hitler, Robert Mugabe and scenes of destruction and starving children.
A spokesman for Mr McCain's campaign has called Madonna's actions "outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time".
'Beautiful Lola'
Pharrell Williams has appeared on the Sticky and Sweet tour before, but only in video form.
During previous dates, he and Madonna's other recent collaborators - Justin Timberlake, Kanye West and Britney Spears - have "performed" in the show as lifesize images on moving video walls.
At the New York show - the 21st date on the four-month world tour - there was a more tender moment as Madonna dedicated a song to her eldest daughter Lourdes to mark her 12th birthday.
She performed You Must Love Me, which she originally sang when she starred in the 1996 movie adaptation of the hit musical Evita. Madonna told the crowd: "My beautiful Lola is 12 today but when I first sang this song she was growing inside me."

Source: BBC NEWS.
 

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