Madonna has ended her The Celebration Tour with the largest concert ever staged by a single act.
The veteran artist’s free Brazil concert at Rio’s Copacabana beach on Saturday, 4 May, was attended by an audience of 1.6 million. Promoter Live Nation Entertainment (LNE) said that apart from the annual New Year’s Eve event on Copacabana Beach, the Rolling Stones held the previous record for largest audience for almost 20 years.
Madonna’s first concert in Brazil for more than a decade saw 18 sound and video towers built on the beach to enable the huge audience to view the onstage action. The construction of the stage and towers reportedly involved a crew of 4,000. Rio police’s Marco Andrade said 3,200 officers were…
