The reigning queen of pop paid her respects to the late King of Pop Saturday night with a musical tribute to the star.

Madonna performed at the O2 in London, the same arena where Michael Jackson was set to stage his This Is It! series of concerts beginning July 13.

As Madonna sang "Holiday" during this stop on her Sticky and Sweet tour, a Jackson impersonator took the stage, sporting a sequin-embellished jacket, white glove, white socks and a white T-shirt. An image of a young Jackson was projected in the background.

The impersonator then moonwalked to Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

After Madonna shouted, "Let's give it up for one of the greatest artists the world has ever known," she and her dancers donned jeweled gloves on their right hands to honor Jackson in their last dance.

Madonna wasn't the only mega-star paying tribute to Jackson in recent days. At its world tour opening show in Barcelona last week, U2 performed "Angel of Harlem" and Bono threw in some lyrics to some of Jackson's greatest hits.

(Originally published July 4, 2009, at 11:05 p.m. PT)

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• U2 kicked off its 360 tour this week at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium. Before a crowd of nearly 90,000, the band bled the end of "Angel in Harlem" into a Michael Jackson tribute, including the choruses of "Man in the Mirror" and "Don't Stop." We expect Bono and friends are giving us a taste of what will be a trend throughout the summer concert season.

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Turns out there's even more on U2's horizon.

Still in the thralls of a virtually unprecedented publicity blitz to hype yesterday's release of No Line on the Horizon, the Irish rockers have announced they are already planning to drop another album of new material later this year.

The sister work is titled Songs of Ascent and is described as having a mellower vibe.

"We're making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent," Bono says in a new Rolling Stone interview. "It will have a clear mood, like [Miles Davis' masterpiece] Kind of Blue. Or [John Coltrane's seminal] A Love Supreme would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people's lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it."

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Broadway's Spidey senses are tingling.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the hyped stage musical directed by Julie Taymor (The Lion King) with music and lyrics courtesy of U2's Bono and The Edge, will kick off what its producers hope will be an amazing run along the Great White Way beginning with previews on Jan. 16, 2010, and a Feb. 18, 2010, opening night.

The $40 million effort, reportedly the most expensive Broadway production ever, will make its debut in the Hilton Theatre, the only venue big enough to allow the superhero room to spin his way around the sprawling skyscraper sets while duking it out with various bad guys.

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Objects on the Horizon are closer than they appear.

Despite U2's best efforts to keep their 12th studio album, No Line on the Horizon, under wraps until its March 3 release, it's out there, baby, and has been downloaded about 100,000 times.

The pirates were kept at bay, however. In these fileshare-happy times of ours, it was actually Universal Music Group mate Universal Australia that accidentally made the album available for download earlier this week. The label remedied its mistake a few hours later but, by then, enough fans around the globe—including the fan blog U2log.com—had snatched it up for $19.98 to turn a leak into a flood.

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And the No. 1 reason for U2 fans to stay up late...

David Letterman has just signed up the band for a weeklong stint at the home office.

Bono and the boys are scheduled as Late Show musical guests on five consecutive nights, March 2-6, as part of a massive publicity push for their new album, No Line on the Horizon. The Irish rockers' 12th studio effort is scheduled to drop March 3.

The five-night booking, a first for Letterman, comes on the heels of U2's rollicking performance of the single "Get On Your Boots" at last Sunday's Grammy Awards.

The last Late Show appearance for the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers was back in 2001 when U2 was making the promotional rounds for All That You Can't Leave Behind.

Hello, hello. Unless you're suffering vertigo, you probably already know about U2's 12th studio album, No Line on the Horizon, hitting stores March 3.

Either way, here's your first taste with the single "Get On Your Boots."

Bono and friends have clearly taken a somewhat different path than 2005's Grammy-winning How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, but what do you think? Does it knock your boots off, or does it have no effect on you whatsoever?

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This month, HBO stands for Honoring Barack Obama.

Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and Denzel Washington are among the very boldfaced headliners expected for the pay-cable network's Jan. 18 special We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, one of the nearly 5,000 celebrations taking place across the U.S. leading up to Obama's swearing-in on Jan. 20.

Also confirmed for the smorgasbord of musical performances and historical readings are "Yes We Can" maestro Will.i.am, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Shakira, John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban, Jamie Foxx, John Mellencamp, Queen Latifah, Herbie Hancock, opera star Renée Fleming and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles.

The Washington, D.C., show will be free and open to the public. (We suggest getting in line now.)

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This Horizon is drawing near.

U2 today officially confirmed the title (No Line on the Horizon) and release date (March 3) for the band's hugely anticipated 12th studio album.

Bono and the boys began writing and recording the new disc, the follow-up to 2005's Grammy-winning How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, in Fez, Morocco. Additional sessions took place in New York, Dublin and London.

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