Madonna: a rare and candid interview with the Queen of Pop
Madonna: a rare and candid interview with the Queen of Pop
The British nerve centre for Madonna Inc is to be found in two adjoining
townhouses in central London. The buildings are a home for the singer and
her four children when they are in this country, plus offices and a personal
gym. From the outside, the six-storey edifices are standard-issue London
mansions — that is, way beyond the standards most of us are accustomed to.
There is something impregnable about such streets: an air of discreet luxury
pervades them. Litter seems not to blow or rattle down their immaculate
expanses; no chewing gum or urgently expelled kebab encrusts their gleaming
paving stones. You might glance up at Madonna’s perfect residential pair and
admire their symmetry, the cleanness of their architectural lines. But you
would be more likely, unless you were a lurking paparazzo, not even to
notice them; they are merely two houses in a long, wide street of the
things. Anonymous, ordered, well maintained and with a touch of class.
Madonna wouldn’t have it any other way. “Where do you live?” she asks when
we meet later. Dalston, I say. The name doesn’t register. Stoke Newington, I
add as a pointer. “That’s not even in London,” she scoffs. And it isn’t, to
be fair. Or not in this London, at any rate.
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