Live! – Blond Ambition World Tour 90 (also referred to as Blond Ambition World Tour – Live) is a music video title by singer Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

. It was released only on Laserdisc

Laserdisc

LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...

 by Pioneer Artists

Pioneer Corporation

is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop...

 as part of the sponsorship deal of the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour

Blond Ambition World Tour

The Blond Ambition World Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter, Madonna. The tour was launched in support of her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and the soundtrack, I'm Breathless. The tour reached North America, Europe and Asia. It was a highly controversial tour,...

. It contains the final tour date filmed at Stade de l'Ouest in Nice, France on August 5, 1990 which had previously been shown and produced by American network HBO as part of a television special.

Another TV special was shown in Europe containing a date filmed in Barcelona, Spain, produced by Italian channel Rai Uno who had previously produced the Ciao, Italia! - Live from Italy

Ciao, Italia! - Live from Italy

Ciao, Italia! – Live from Italy is a live music video by American singer-songwriter Madonna. Released by Warner Reprise Video on May 24, 1988, it contained a live performance from the 1987 Who's That Girl World Tour, filmed at Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy on September 4, 1987 and in Florence,...

video release.

In 1992, the Live! – Blond Ambition World Tour 90 Laserdisc won the Best Music Video, Long Form category at the 34th Grammy Awards. This was the first Grammy award Madonna received in her career. The award was granted to Madonna, David Mallet and Mark "Aldo" Miceli (video directors) and Anthony Eaton (video producer). The live performances of "Like a Virgin" and "Holiday" were released as music video on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 to promote the video album. In 1991, "Like a Virgin" was nominated for "Best Female Video

MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video is one of the original general awards that has been handed out every year since the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. In 2007, however, the award was briefly renamed Female Artist of the Year, and it awarded the artist's whole body of work...

" and "Best Choreography

MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography

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" at the MTV Video Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

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. The next year, she achieved three nominations of "Holiday" for "Best Female Video", "Best Choreography", "Best Dance Video

MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video was first awarded in 1989, and it was one of the original four genre categories that were added to the MTV Video Music Awards that year. With a revamp of the awards in 2007, the category was cut out along with several others, yet it returned for the...

". However, she did not win any of these nominations.

Other releases

Blond Ambition – Japan Tour 90 is a live music video title by singer Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

. It was released in Japan only by Warner-Pioneer and contains a date from the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour

Blond Ambition Tour

The Blond Ambition World Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter, Madonna. The tour was launched in support of her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and the soundtrack, I'm Breathless. The tour reached North America, Europe and Asia. It was a highly controversial tour,...

 filmed at Yokohama Stadium

Yokohama Stadium

is a stadium in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan. It opened in 1978 and holds 30,000 people.It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Yokohama BayStars. The stadium is unique, because it features dirt around the bases and pitcher's mound, but with dirt colored turf infield and base...

 in Yokohama, Japan on April 27, 1990.

Blond Ambition Tour 1990 is the name of a DVD released in Germany only in 2005 by Falcon Neue Medien which had obtained a licence to release it only in that country. Neither Madonna nor Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

 authorized the release, which features poor-quality footage from a show filmed in Houston, Texas in May 1990 during Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour

Blond Ambition Tour

The Blond Ambition World Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter, Madonna. The tour was launched in support of her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and the soundtrack, I'm Breathless. The tour reached North America, Europe and Asia. It was a highly controversial tour,...

. The same footage DVD was released in the UK in October 2007 by Quantum Leap Video.

Formats

Pioneer still hold the rights to this Laserdisc

Laserdisc

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 only release and there have been no plans to release it on DVD

DVD

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.

Guy Oseary, Madonna's current manager, has recently commented on his Twitter that he and Warner are in talks to produce a DVD of the Blond Ambition. Although he admits that it will take time as they do not know where the footage is and what condition it is in. The talks are in a very early stage.

Track listing

1. "Everybody" (Dance intro)
2. "Express Yourself"
3. "Open Your Heart
   Open Your Heart (Madonna song)
   "Open Your Heart" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released as the fourth single from her third studio album True Blue on November 12, 1986, by Sire Records. It has since appeared remixed on the compilation albums The Immaculate Collection and Celebration...
   
   "
4. "Causing a Commotion
   Causing a Commotion
   "Causing a Commotion" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released as the second single from the soundtrack album Who's That Girl on August 25, 1987, by Sire Records. Its Silver Screen Single Mix later appeared on the 1991 UK compilation EP The Holiday Collection...
   
   "
5. "Where's the Party"
6. "Like a Virgin
   Like a Virgin (song)
   "Like a Virgin" is a song by American singer Madonna from her second album of the same name. It was released on November 6, 1984 by Sire Records, as the first single from the album. The song appears on the greatest hits compilation albums The Immaculate Collection and Celebration...
   
   "
7. "Like a Prayer
   Like a Prayer (song)
   "Like a Prayer" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna on her fourth studio album of the same name . It was released on March 21, 1989, by Sire Records as the album's lead single...
   
   "
8. "Live to Tell
   Live to Tell
   "Live to Tell" is a pop ballad by American singer-songwriter Madonna. Originally written by Patrick Leonard for the soundtrack of the film Fire with Fire, the song was shown to Madonna, who decided to use it for then-husband Sean Penn's film At Close Range...
   
   /Oh Father
   Oh Father
   "Oh Father" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna, from her fourth studio album Like a Prayer . It was released as the fourth single from the album on October 24, 1989, by Sire Records. The song was not released as a single in most European territories until December 24, 1995, when it...
   
   "
9. "Papa Don't Preach
   Papa Don't Preach
   "Papa Don't Preach" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. The song was written by Brian Elliot with additional lyrics by Madonna, and produced by Stephen Bray and Madonna for her third studio album True Blue, released in June 1986...
   
   "
10. "Sooner or Later
    Sooner or Later (Madonna song)
    "Sooner or Later" is a song recorded by the American pop singer Madonna, and written by the American composer Stephen Sondheim, for the 1990 film, Dick Tracy...
    
    "
11. "Hanky Panky
    Hanky Panky (Madonna song)
    "Hanky Panky" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was the second and final single release from her soundtrack album I'm Breathless on June 30, 1990 by Sire Records. The song caused some controversy because of its innuendo and racy lyrics...
    
    "
12. "Now I'm Following You"
13. "Material Girl
    Material Girl
    "Material Girl" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on January 30, 1985, by Sire Records, as the second single from her second album Like a Virgin. It also appears slightly remixed on the 1990 greatest hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection, and in its...
    
    "
14. "Cherish
    Cherish (Madonna song)
    "Cherish" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released as the third single from her fourth studio album Like a Prayer on August 1, 1989, by Sire Records. The song was also included on the 1990 compilation album The Immaculate Collection and the two-disc edition of her 2009...
    
    "
15. "Into the Groove
    Into the Groove
    "Into the Groove" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan. It was featured on the 1985 re-issue of her second studio album, Like a Virgin, and released on July 23, 1985 by Sire Records as the album's fourth single outside North America...
    
    "
16. "Vogue"
17. "Holiday
    Holiday (Madonna song)
    "Holiday" is a song by American singer Madonna from her self-titled debut album. Released on September 7, 1983 by Sire Records, it later appeared remixed on the 1987 remix compilation You Can Dance and the 1990 greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection, and in its original form on the...
    
    "
18. "Family Affair
    Family Affair (Sly & the Family Stone song)
    "Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly & the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double a-sided single "Thank You "/ "Everybody is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the fourth and final number-one pop hit for the...
    
    " (Intro)
19. "Keep It Together"

Production credits

• Director: David Mallet
• Producer: Anthony Eaton
• Executive Producer: Freddy De Mann
• Art Direction: Christopher Ciccone
• Choreography: Vince Patterson
• Assistant Choreographer: Kevin Alexander Stea