Madonna’s lateness to concerts is now well known: also in Milan, last November, one of his shows started more than two hours late and there was a certain amount of discontent among the audience. Two American fans, however, are determined not to let him get away with it and have sued the organization for “misleading advertising” relating to the three dates held in December in New York.
The concerts, instead of starting at 8.30pm as advertised, actually started after 10.30pm and ended after 1am: the two fans claim that “they would not have bought the tickets” if they had known that they would end so late and thus decided to take legal action against Live Nation, promoter of the event, and the Bercley Center, location of the event, for “misleading advertising, negligent representation and unfair and misleading sales practices”.
Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden argue that “many ticket holders who go to concerts during the week have to wake up early to go to work and/or take care of family responsibilities the next day.” They add that the organization in no way made it known that the concerts “would start much later than what was written on the ticket and advertised”, despite Madonna having a “long history of tour delays”.
In 2019, in fact, another fan sued her for the same reason, again in the United States, but then voluntarily withdrew the charges. That year the pop star had posted a clip of a concert on her social networks in which she said to the audience: «You have to understand one thing. And that is that a queen is never late.”