Shut Up and Dance – Tim Gaskin

All Madonna wants to do is shake her tail feather. She’s back sporting a fresh face and spreading the gospel about her new album, her first since 2003. This time around the 47 year-old spiritualist talks Live8, explains her riding accident, her follow-up film to the 1993 documentary “Truth or Dare” and she pledges no more ballads, “I just wanna dance!"

An apprehensive Madonna had just completed her album ' Confessions On A Dancefloor', and finished her new film ‘I'm Going to Tell You a Secret’ when Bob Geldof asked her to appear at Live8. The previously booked singer was committed to a vacation with her husband Guy Ritchie and children 9-year-old Lourdes and 5-year-old Rocco. According to the pop-star, Bob Geldof screeched over the phone, “ Africa 's more important than your children!"

The star, who established herself at the original Live Aid, read the reports of her confirmation in newspapers before she agreed to Geldof. “I hadn't even answered him yet,” complains the singer.

More than 200,000 people were at the concert in Hyde Park , London , to see Madonna along U2, Sir Elton John and Sting. Taking to the stage Madonna asked the crowd: "Are you ready to start a revolution? Are you ready to change history?” Madonna says her favorite moment was, “Getting all the paparazzi to drop their cameras and clap their hands.”

The singer’s 47th birthday celebration was spoiled when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country estate outside London . She was on the animal, a birthday gift, for less than a minute before getting thrown off. The Detroit toughie says she’ll be back on the horse once she builds strength back in her appendage. “My left arm flaps around like a chicken wing.” She jokes.

Madonna says she's clearly not the same person who she was when she made her provocative 1993 documentary ‘Truth or Dare’ — and she hopes fans will appreciate the change. The new documentary, which recently premiered on MTV, follows the pop icon's ‘Re-Invention Tour,’ from dancer auditions to rehearsals and opening night all the way through the final show and her visit to Israel last fall.

Longtime friend and controversial director Michael Moore had offered to direct, but a scheduling conflict prevented the Madonna/Moore collaboration. Still it was his advice to, “Just shoot as much as you can and write the script in the editing room," that Madonna took to heart. She says editing down 350 hours of film was, “the hardest thing to do.”

“If you're going make a documentary about yourself, you've got to tell the truth,” declares Madonna. “I'm sharing my journey and if people get something out of it, great; and if they don't, then that's fine, too.”

For the new album, the pop queen and devout Kabbalah follower includes a track called 'Isaac', a tribute she penned to the 16th century cleric who founded the religion. She has been a devotee for over 10 years and has been an unwavering advocate of the mystic Jewish faith.

The new song is set to appear on Madonna's forthcoming album ' Confessions On A Dancefloor', which is released on November 14.