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Like many who were in New York that morning,
Lady Gaga remembers every single second of her day.
The Bad Romance singer was a teenager at the time, and stood
on the roof of her high school watching the atrocities, alongside her classmates.
Detailing her experience to MTV News a decade later, she said: ‘I was at school with my girlfriends. I just remember that the history teachers had us all piled into one room and had a television on and none of us believed it was happening.
‘So we didn’t believe it, so we ran up to the roof and I just remember we got up to the roof, and one tower had already fallen and we all watched the second tower fall all together.
[My school] was miles and miles away, but the sky that hovered above us was jet black.’
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The renowned singer disclosed that she witnessed the horrifying incident
from the rooftop of her high school when she was just 15 years old.
The 9/11 attacks, orchestrated by Al-Qaeda terrorists, involved the hijacking
of two planes that were flown into New York’s Twin Towers. This catastrophic event resulted in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the tragic loss of nearly 2,977 lives.
Reflecting on her experience, Lady Gaga remarked,
“We were unable to believe the scary unfolding of events.”
During an appearance on MTV, the star recounted the moment, saying,
“Unable to believe the news on TV, we all went to the rooftop, and one tower
had already fallen, and we all saw the other fall in front of our eyes.”
Lady Gaga also shared her deep anxiety and distress at the time, as her mother
worked in close proximity to the World Trade Center & she was unable to contact her.
On the anniversary of this tragic event, Lady Gaga paid tribute to the victims of 9/11, emphasizing, “It’s a moment to honor New York. It’s a moment to come together and realise that New York really is forever changed and will always now be a family.”
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CNN — Tony Bennett won over generations of fans crooning “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” And on his 95th birthday, the beloved singer left his heart on the stage of Radio City Music Hall. Six months after Bennett and his family revealed he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Bennett sang alongside Lady Gaga before sold-out crowds in a two-concert series
in early August Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023),
known professionally as Tony Bennett, an American jazz and traditional pop singer.
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Billed as his final New York performances.
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Now the rest of the world has a chance to take in the moving August 3rd show
in a TV special, “One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga,”
which aired Sunday on CBS.
In addition to his signature song, Bennett performed standards like “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” and duets with Lady Gaga including “Love for Sale” and “Anything Goes.”
His family members have said sometimes Bennett doesn’t know where he is and what is happening around him. But onstage in the TV special, the legendary performer didn’t miss a beat.
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Belting out “New York, New York” before Bennett took the stage, Lady Gaga teared up when she paused to talk about him. “He’s my friend. He’s my musical companion.
And he’s the greatest singer in the whole world.
And I’m counting on you, New York, to make him smile. So, you better cheer.
You better yell. You better laugh. You better cry. You better give your soul.”
The Radio City Music Hall audience held up its end of the bargain.
Bennett got his first standing ovation before even singing a note –
and racked up at least a dozen more throughout the night.
In “Fly Me to the Moon,” when he crooned the line, “Let me sing forever more,”
the audience erupted in cheers. At one point the camera panned to an audience
member shouting, “We love you!”
Bennett, whose singing career spans eight decades, is no stranger to performing for throngs of adoring fans. Still, before the concert, family members told “60 Minutes”
they weren’t sure what would happen during the show.
But wife Susan Benedetto said that once she saw him onstage that night, his eyes
twinkling and arms outstretched toward the crowd, she knew everything would be alright.
“He became himself. He just turned on. It was like a light switch,” she told
“60 Minutes” in a segment that aired last month.
That’s because music and performing are so ingrained in the singer,
according to Bennett’s neurologist, Dr. Gayatri Devi.
“People respond differently based on their strengths. In Tony’s case, it’s his musical memory, his ability to be a performer. Those are an innate and hardwired part of his brain,” Devi said on “60 Minutes.” “So even though he doesn’t know what the day might be, or where his apartment is, he still can sing the whole repertoire of the American Songbook and move people.” @60minutes with @tonybennett by #andersoncooper – YouTube
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga performed together at The Grammys in 2015.
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Bennett released his first album with Lady Gaga in 2014.
Their latest collaboration, a Cole Porter tribute album titled “Love For Sale,”
was released in October. Last week it garnered six Grammy nominations.
After the nominations, Lady Gaga told BBC Radio 2’s “The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show”
that it’s been heartbreaking to watch what Bennett is going through. She told “60 Minutes”
that also Bennett had been calling her “Sweetheart” every time she’d seen him since the
pandemic began, and she wasn’t sure he knew who she was.
But when she came onstage to join him during the Radio City Music Hall concert, Bennett appeared to have no doubt. “Wow,” he said as she twirled around in a shimmering gold gown. “Lady Gaga!” A look of joy flashed across Lady Gaga’s face.
She bent over, her head in her hands, before doing another twirl.
“I had to keep it together, because we had a sold-out show and I had a job to do,” Lady Gaga told “60 Minutes.” “But I’ll tell you, when I walked out on that stage, and he said, ‘Lady Gaga,’ my friend saw me, and it was very special.”
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After the successful Radio City Music Hall shows, Bennett canceled future tour appearances. His son and manager Danny Bennett told Variety those New York
concerts would be his last.
“This was a hard decision for us to make, as he is a capable performer. This is, however, doctors’ orders,” Danny Bennett said. “It’s not the singing aspect but, rather, the traveling. Look, he gets tired. The decision is being made that doing concerts now is just too much for him.” Lady Gaga told “60 Minutes” she heard a powerful message in Bennett’s last Radio City Music Hall performances.
“It’s not a sad story. It’s emotional. It’s hard to watch somebody change. I think what’s been beautiful about this, and what’s been challenging, is to see how it affects him in some ways, but to see how it doesn’t affect his talent,” she said. “I think he really pushed through something to give the world the gift of knowing that things can change, and you can still be magnificent.” 5 Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease Most People Aren’t Aware of, Say Drs.
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