EXCLUSIVE: 'Margate is Venice Beach without the sunshine, I know exactly why Madonna can't get enough'What have a multi-millionaire pop icon and a faded former Victorian seaside resort on the icy wind-ravaged January Kent coast got in common? If it’s Madonna and Margate – everything, says Ros Wynne JonesView 7 Images Madonna visits Margate! The town’s parties have been legendary since the mods and rockers clashed on Margate Beach on the Whitsun bank holiday of 1964. View 7 Images Visitors enjoy the sunshine on Margate Beach (Image: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)‌View 7 Images Madonna poses with her pal Tracey Emin -enthusing on Insta Madonna declared that her pal Tracey “is a Pearl. A precious necklace that has been draped around a seaside Town in England called Margate”.