Most Americans would not want news of the BP oil spill delivered by a man wearing pink suede shoes or a velvet dinner jacket.

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Velvet jacket, a shirt collar, whose dimensions even Harry Hill might consider a bit over the top, aviator specs.

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To start her show, Madonna emerged from a giant glitter ball to sing first number Hung Up, dressed in an all-purple ensemble of jacket, velvet pedal pushers and knee-high boots.

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