Madonna’s free Copacabana beach concert attracts estimated crowd of 1.6m

Madonna performs on Copacabana Beach (Silvia Izquierdo/AP)

By Associated Press Reporter

Madonna put on a free concert on Copacabana beach on Saturday night, turning Rio de Janeiro’s vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor teeming with many of her fans.

It was the last show of The Celebration Tour, her first retrospective, which kicked off in October in London.