Madonna’s upcoming tour to feature "about 45 songs" and no band on stage for the first time in her career

Earlier this year, in January, Madonna announced The Celebration Tour by sharing a five-minute announcement video that saw her playing truth or dare with famous faces including Jack Black, Lil Wayne, Diplo, Bob The Drag Queen, Kate Berlant, Larry Owens, Meg Stalter, Eric Andre, Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow, and nods to her 1991 film of the same name.

The Celebration Tour was set to see Madonna play 35 cities across North America, Europe and the UK to celebrate her 40-year career. Unfortunately, she had to reschedule the North American dates due to being hospitalised with a serious bacterial infection.

Madonna has kept tight-lipped about what concertgoers may expect, but BBC News correspondent has them covered.

“The great thing about Stuart Price is he knows this show inside out. He wasn’t going to give away all of the big secrets but he gave me an idea of the shape of the show. And the thing that really fascinated me is he said; ‘When you talk about greatest hits for Madonna, a greatest hit isn’t necessarily a song. It’s a look, it’s a video, it’s an award show performance, it’s a costume she wore.’ And so this is going to be a concert that takes all of that, all the Madonna music, and the social history that it intersects with...”

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Speaking about the actual stage set-up, he added: “One interesting thing that Stuart said is there will not be a band on stage with her, I think for the first time in her career. And what they’ve done is they’ve gone back to the original multi-track recordings of all of these songs, 72 I think, top 40 hits in the UK, and they’ve deconstructed them. He said they’ve gone back to the original vocals where you can hear New York police sirens going past when she was recording Into The Groove in the 1980s. And they’re using all of that original and really evocative music as the backing track."

Last month, Madonna reflected on her banned Pepsi commercial, which celebrated the release of "Like a Prayer", saying: "34 years ago I made a commercial with Pepsi to celebrate the release of my song "Like a Prayer". The commercial was immediately canceled when I refused to change any scenes in the video where I was kissing a black saint or burning crosses," she wrote. "So began my illustrious career as an artist refusing to compromise my artistic integrity...Artists are here to disturb the peace."