“Holiday” and “Live to Tell” are two wildly different songs in Madonna’s discography but they have a similar effect on Spears.

Some of Madonna‘s biggest songs, such as “Like a Prayer” and “Ray of Light” touch on spiritual topics. Despite this, “Live to Tell” feels thoroughly secular. When asked about the ...

The history of pop music can essentially be divided into two eras: pre-Madonna and post-Madonna. Michael Jackson sold more albums and Prince was more prolific, but of the three singular musical ...

Producer Patrick Leonard likes to recount the story that Madonna wrote the lyrics to “Live To Tell” on a legal pad ... Billboard Hot 100 – and those songs routinely set their own agenda.

5. “Live to Tell” Just to show you how long she’s been around, Madonna was married to Sean Penn when this ballad was featured in his 1986 film “At Close Range.” And since then ...

Note: Madonna did play a lot of snippets of other songs during interstitial segments — we’re talking about the ones she sang live on stage here. Check out the setlist for Madonna’s The ...

Madonna has previously used "Live to Tell" to honor those who've lost their lives to AIDS, most notably on the Confessions Tour in 2006, when she performed the song from a large crucifix and ...

Many songs, including “Justify My Love,” “Everybody” and “Live To Tell,” haven’t been played regularly in decades, but she’s dusted them off for this seven-month run. Madonna ...

she’s never performed it live. [Eric Diaz] This is a Madonna song that casual fans seem shocked to discover was a number one hit—seriously, “Who’s That Girl” went to the top, but not ...

By extension, Madonna’s choice to deploy the montage early in each Celebration performance as a backdrop for a rendition of the 1986 song “Live to Tell” is as politically trenchant as it is ...

Here are her best songs. On her 65th birthday, we salute Madonna for her staggering catalog of chart toppers and pop perfection. Here are her best songs. News Today's news US Politics ...