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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live! (2015)

Where the lyrics of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live! take you, and where it was really made.

This album began as a TV special: the concert was filmed for broadcast, and the aired version ran shorter than the original show because of Gaga's costume changes.

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Concert at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center (2015)

Live show Rose Theater of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts — The concert was held at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in July 2014, after the album's release was announced. It was later aired on PBS and released as this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!: American concert television special and live album
• Performances in support of their collaborative studio album Cheek to Cheek, released in September 2014
• Held at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in July 2014, after the album's release was announced
• Aired on PBS on October 24, 2014, as part of the Great Performances series
• Audience made up of invited guests and students from New York schools
• Bennett and Gaga joined on stage by a 39-piece orchestra and by jazz musicians associated with both artists
• Thirteen songs from the album performed
• Gaga wore several costumes, with designs from Roberto Cavalli, Michael Costello, Mathieu Mirano, Valentino and David Samuel Menkes
• DVD and Blu-ray released January 20, 2015; later available for digital download on the iTunes Store

Background

• Bennett and Gaga first met backstage in 2011, after she sang Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky" at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City
• Bennett then asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his album Duets II, and they recorded "The Lady Is a Tramp" for it
• Rumors of a jazz album followed
• On July 29, 2014, Gaga and Bennett appeared on The Today Show to announce the collaboration Cheek to Cheek
• Set and lighting created by Robert Wilson; David Horn directed the show
• Orchestra conducted by Jorge Calandrelli; soloists Chris Botti on trumpet and David Mann on tenor sax

Recording

• The special was shot with a total of 13 Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's Epic Dragon cameras
• PBS later announced that the concert was filmed in 4K resolution
• Concert synopsis: Bennett and Gaga's set moved from "Anything Goes" and the title track through solo and duet numbers to a full-band finale, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City.
• Signed with Interscope Records in 2007; Streamline Records was an Interscope imprint.
• Debut album The Fame (2008) and reissue The Fame Monster (2009) brought global recognition.

Career

• Born This Way (2011) debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 1.1 million first-week sales in the US.
• Expanded into jazz with Tony Bennett on Cheek to Cheek (2014) and Love for Sale (2021).
• Acting: American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016), A Star Is Born (2018), House of Gucci (2021).
• Chromatica (2020) and Mayhem (2025) returned to pop; the Mayhem Ball concluded in April 2026 as her highest-grossing tour.
• Estimated sales of 124 million records; 16 Grammy Awards; 22 MTV Video Music Awards.
• Philanthropy and activism focus on mental health and LGBTQ rights; founded the Born This Way Foundation in 2012.

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Reception

At release

• The show received positive reviews, with critics praising Gaga and Bennett's vocals and their camaraderie on stage
• Kathryn Shattuck of The New York Times praised Bennett's vocals at 88 and found Gaga hard to recognize out of her usual outfits
• Matt Rush of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who attended the July concert, said the original show ran much longer than the broadcast because of Gaga's costume changes
• Lori Rackl of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the concert three stars out of four and called it a classy affair
• Erin Strecker of Billboard called Gaga's performance of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" incredible
• Ty Pendlebury of CNET, who was present during the recording, said Gaga can really sing without autotune, while Bennett's voice was sometimes croaky

Records

• The album reached the top ten of the record charts in many countries, and number one in the US and Belgium
• The DVD charted at number four on the Australian DVD Chart and number one in the US
• The DVD also charted in the top ten in many countries, including the UK and France
• The special was nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special at the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 12, 2015, and the award went to the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The concert was watched by an audience of invited guests and students from New York schools.
• Gaga's crown in the "I Won't Dance" segment was made by Gympie milliner Cindy Vogels, and the shipment was held in Anchorage, Alaska, over wildlife import issues with US customs.
• The DVD and Blu-ray editions include additional songs not aired on television, including "They All Laughed" and "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye".
• LG Electronic co-sponsored the concert and provided the streaming to dealers for in-store display on their HD TV screens.
• Audio-only versions of the concert were later released as a live album on CD and vinyl.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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