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Celebrate Madonna's 56th Birthday With Five Classic Tour Clips
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Aug 16, 2014
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The Queen of Pop turns 56 today, and to celebrate Her Madgesty on her special day, we've compiled this handy roundup of some of her New York performances. It seems like only yesterday Madonna's arms turned 53...
Here's Madonna performing in New York as part of her The Girlie Show tour in 1993:
And here she is breaking it down Gangnam Style with Psy on her MDNA tour 2012:
Madonna performed at Radio City Music Hall in 1985 as part of her Like A Virgin tour:
In 1990, she took to the stage at the Nassau Coliseum as part of her Blond Ambition tour:
And last but not least, Madonna went all "Vogue" at Madison Square Garden during her Re-Invention Tour in 2004.
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