Love For Sale
“Tony called me right after *Cheek to Cheek* came out and had gone No. 1,” Lady Gaga tells Apple Music, explaining the decision to follow up their successful duet album of Great American Songbook covers with an LP devoted solely to the music of Cole Porter. “He said, ‘I want to make this record with you, and it will be all Cole Porter songs,’ and I just thought it was a brilliant idea.” Gaga and Bennett breathe new life into some of Porter’s most timeless classics—“You’re the Top,” “Night and Day,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” and of course the heartbreaking title track. Gaga takes a solo turn on “Do I Love You,” and as she tells it, Bennett provided her with the confidence to approach the recording booth alone: “Tony gave me the inspiration and permission to hold court in the studio again,” she says. “He reminded me that I am the artist.” But the real magic happens when the two come together. “I know he’s 95 years old, but I see a young boy every time I sing with him,” Gaga dotes. “It makes the experience so freeing to have two souls singing together.”
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett's Love For Sale may be his final album but it's a perfect career snapshot
The veteran crooner and art-pop legend team up again, this time to pay tribute to Cole Porter's big band classics
This collection of jazz standards is a fine way for the 95-year-old Bennett to take his final bow
Bennett’s got these songs under his skin, and pop’s Mother Monster does a brilliant job of helping him deliver them as a final gift to the world
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Two of the greatest and most influential vocalists of their respective generations, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga produce a wealth of richly sentimental, celestial sounds, existing comfortably both in the past from which they derive and the present in which they were recorded.
Pandemic aside, Lady Gaga has proved to be unstoppable across the past 18 months. With the warm glow of the acclaim lavished on her acting turn in A Star
On what will be the 95-year-old’s final album, this unlikely duo reunite for a smooth set of Cole Porter covers
The pop diva and jazz maestro defy the latter’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis and team up once again, this time for a creditable set of Cole Porter covers
The two singers, with a 60-year age gap, have reunited for their second and probably final collaboration – the results are a joy
Review of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga album Love for Sale for The Arts Desk by Sebastian Scotney