Madonna kicks off her Sticky and Sweet tour in Cardiff

by Amy Judd | August 23, 2008 at 04:00 pm

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The Queen of Pop herself finally kicked off her highly anticipated world tour in Whales on Saturday night to a screaming crowd of 40,000.

I have tickets to her concert in Vancouver in October so she is going to be touring for a long time.

The U.S. singer, who turned 50 a week ago, defied her age with high-energy dance routines. She wore a black leotard-style outfit designed by French fashion house Givenchy and black, knee-length boots.

For her second number, "Beat Goes On", she drove along the stage catwalk in a white car from which she emerged wearing a white top hat.

U.S. rappers Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, who featured on her latest chart-topping album "Hard Candy", appeared in video clips, as did Britney Spears.

Madonna will be hoping to shatter her own record for the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist and prove that the musical master of reinvention still has what it takes to pull in crowds young and old.

"She's got the physique, the music. To us, at 52, she's an inspiration to go on," said Diane, a fan from Cardiff.

At the other end of the age scale, nine-year-old Milly added: "I think she's really good and I'd like to be like her."