Slipping into her hotel she cuts a diminutive figure: the phalanx of man-mountain bodyguards surrounding the blonde, pig-tailed popstar only serve to make 5ft 4in look even tinier.But when she takes to the stage at the O2 tonight for the opening show of her 78-date international Celebration Tour, she hopes the audience will witness the denouement of her extraordinary four-decades-long career and a thundering expression of her cultural power.She also wants to send a sharp rebuke to and , the two women many would currently describe as the most powerful in the industry and prove that nobody — even singers with the commercial power of Tay and Bey — can hold a bejewelled candle to the original Queen of Pop.
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