If the Sunday tabloids are to be believed, Madonna is in the midst of a full-blown meltdown that has been characterised bykeeping audiences waiting for hours before she arrives on stage, swigging tequila during her concerts, calling her ex-husband a ‘son a bitch’, slurring her way through her sets, and latterly dressing up and performing as a clown. The general subtext of these headlinesis the same one the tabloids have been spinningsince the early nineties; that Madonna’scareer is over and s...