Madonna turns 50 on Saturday, just days before her Sticky Sweet tour reaches Britain. Michael Jackson also marks his half-century this month with a new greatest hits collection due, but no sign of his promised comeback album. Two controversial megastars with overlapping careers but very different fortunes: how did it all go so right, and so wrong, for the planet's most famous pop duo? 1 Suffer childhood hardship Madonna Louise Ciccone and Michael Joseph Jackson were born just 13 days apart in... read more
