Polish fans sing birthday chorus to Material Girl
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WARSAW, Poland — Polish fans joined together in song to wish Madonna a happy birthday at a concert in Warsaw Saturday — just hours before she turned 51.
In a break between two songs, a fan held up a sign wishing her a happy birthday and audience members sang, “may you live a hundred years,” a traditional Polish birthday song.
“I feel your love!” Madonna told the crowd of tens of thousands gathered on a large field for the latest stop in her Sticky & Sweet tour. Many of the fans near the stage also held up paper hearts. One said: “Adopt Me.”
Her stop in Warsaw also fell on the Roman Catholic holiday celebrating the heavenly assumption of the Virgin Mary — timing that angered some Catholics.
Several people who objected to Madonna held up banners outside the concert, and a Catholic group tried to spearhead protests in past weeks hoping to force the Material Girl to change the date of the concert. It failed, however, to win support from the official church or the public. Though Poland is mainly Catholic, young urban Poles have overwhelmingly embraced pop culture.
— The Associated Press