Blond Ambition

Blond AmbitionTotally unrelated, but today, 24 years ago, I was in the Olympic Equestrian Stadium in Munich, to attend my first ever Madonna concert, on 15 July 1990.

JPGaultierShe was on tour with her legendary Blond Ambition Tour, with the cone bras, corsets, crosses, priests, and a full on masturbation scene on a red bed.

It was raunchy. I was 15.

My mother hated it.

I was mesmerized.

My Dad had driven me and a friend from school for hours over to Munich, and was waiting all afternoon and night outside, only to drive us right back.

We hit home somewhere around 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning.

He says if he had know then what it would start, he’d never have done it.

25 years and 52 shows later, I’m still in…