Here We Go Yet Again...

Elton as Madonna wins the Golden Globe for Best Song - instead of him!

Poor old Elton John is after some headlines, once again attacking Madonna. On A TV interview in Australia, these were his comments:

Why is she such a nightmare? Sorry, her career is over. Her tour has been a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger c***.

If Madonna had any common sense she would have made a record like Ray Of Light and stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and make great pop records, which she does brilliantly.

But no, she had to go and prove… she looks like a f****** fairground stripper. She’s been horrible to Gaga.

"I honestly do not understand his need to trash the crap out of her over and over again. He says she has no authority, but apparently he has authority? He needs to hate on her," a friend of the Material Girl tells me. "To say her tour is a disaster is just silly. She is selling out arenas, singing new material and a few classic hits. He will be singing the same old songs until he dies."

Madonna is estimated to have sold more than 300 million records versus Elton’s 250 million, plus his career has an extra 10 years on hers. Elton's is worth approx $355 million while Madonna is worth more than $650 million as of last year, with an estimated additional $250 million paycheck from the "disastrous" MDNA tour. Madonna's current album MDNA is the fifth best selling album of the year and has already sold more then Elton's last three album combined.

"Ultimately, she doesn’t care what he has to say about her in public or private," one insider tells me. "She has nothing to prove to anyone, especially Elton John."

Today on Radio 3AW’s Breakfast Show, entertainment reporter Peter Ford said he had been contacted by Elton John’s publicity team. Elton PR is claiming that it’s all rubbish and that all the quotes are made up. (Yet they were shown on TV!)

An hour or two later, they came back and said that it was all off-the-record.

Elton John is furious that it was put to air. It was meant to be a private conversation between Elton John and Molly Meldrum.

Elton’s been around long enough to know that if there’s a camera there and someone’s standing behind it with a red light on… It’s still being recorded.

Speaking with 3AW Breakfast, Molly Meldrum said he was taken aback by Elton John’s comments attacking Madonna…

"I love Elton, but when he launched into Madonna I slightly went into shock because Madonna also is a friend of mine. But I have to say that she has been very naughty of late".

Peter Ford said Molly Meldrum had a good enough relationship with Elton John to not do the wrong thing by him. Unless you actually specify it’s off the record, then everything is up for grabs. Ford also said he had been asked to give Molly Meldrum’s phone number to Elton’s publicity team, as Elton was demanding he speak with him, but he respectfully declined.

Elton has of course been more focused in the last years to attack Madonna's career then to actually focus on his own. Madonna however has refused to become a part of the whole thing, even sending out love to him.

So perhaps that bitter old bitch should just keep his mouth shut at all times then? The venom spewing from that man suggest that he must be a very unhappy and unstable individual, to say the least!

Pop singer Madonna urged Russia on Monday not to jail three women from the punk band Pussy Riot for staging a protest in a church, while jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky likened their trial to a medieval inquisition.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, face up to seven years in jail for storming the altar of Moscow's main cathedral on February 21 and belting out a 'punk prayer' calling on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Vladimir Putin, the prime minister who has since returned to the presidency.

Madonna weighed into a trial which the opposition says is part of a wider crackdown on dissent by Putin after the biggest protests since he rose to power in 2000. In Moscow to give a concert and open a branch of her own fitness club, the American singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and actor added her voice to other international singers such as Sting and Red Hot Chili Peppers who have appealed for leniency.

'I am against censorship and throughout my whole career I've always promoted freedom of expression, freedom of speech. So obviously, I think that what happened to them (Pussy Riot) is unfair,' Madonna, whose songs include 'Like a Virgin' and 'Like a Prayer' and have also courted controversy, told Reuters Television. 'I hope they do not have to serve seven years in jail. That would be a tragedy,' she said. 'I think art should be political. Historically speaking, art always reflects what's going on socially. So for me, it's hard to separate the idea of being an artist and being political.'

The band's stunt infuriated church leaders and the Kremlin and upset many Orthodox Christian believers for whom the Christ the Saviour Cathedral is a sacred place of worship and its pulpit a place reserved exclusively for priests. Accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, the three woman on trial said they wanted their performance to be considered as a political act directed against the church merging with state security services. 'There is a big difference between criticism and hatred. Protest is not hatred and it is not violence,' Alyokhina told the court on Monday.

UPDATE:

U.S. Embassy Moscow and U.S. Consulate General St. Petersburg

SECURITY MESSAGE FOR U.S. CITIZENS:

MADONNA CONCERTS

August 7, 2012

This is to alert U.S. citizens in Russia who are planning to attend the Madonna concerts in Moscow on Tuesday, August 7, or in St. Petersburg on Thursday, August 9, that the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg has received information regarding a threat of physical violence against spectators and performers at the St. Petersburg concert on August 9.

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow and the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg have shared the information with appropriate Russian law enforcement authorities. Russian authorities have indicated to the Embassy that they are taking appropriate measures in light of this information. While we expect that enhanced security measures will be put in place at both concerts, U.S. citizens are reminded to remain vigilant regarding their personal security, and to be aware of their surroundings at all times, especially in crowded areas.