It marked the first official full-length release between the pair and won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2015. “Anything Goes” is the opening track on Cheek To Cheek, the first collaborative album between Gaga and Bennett shared in 2014. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, prominent American recording artists first met backstage in 2011 after Gaga had performed a rendition of Nat King Coles 'Orange Colored Sky', at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City, New York, United States.Thereafter Bennett asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his upcoming album. “It just reminded me that anybody that has a family member or someone they love that’s suffering from Alzheimer’s or Dementia, music is magic. “A couple years later, his Alzheimer’s just started to set on, and I said ‘let’s go into the studio now’… When I tell you that when jazz begins, this man lights up in a way that is such magic,” Gaga said. Reuniting for this very special and intimate concert from the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Centers Rose. The pair’s appearance at Radio City came as part of a two-night run that ultimately became Bennett’s final live performances before retiring at the suggestion of his medical team following a diagnosis with Alzheimer’s Disease. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE. Radio City was a highlight of Tony and Gaga’s global Cheek to Cheek Live tour when they performed two sold-out. And he goes, ‘Hey Lady’ – that’s what he calls me – ‘we need to make a Cole porter record, all Cole Porter songs, all love songs.’” Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett To Share Stage One Last Time at Radio City Music Hall. “Our album Cheek to Cheek went No.1 and I called him and said, ‘Hey Tone, we’re number one all over the world with a jazz record’. “Watching him begin his journey with Alzheimer’s years ago, I remember I wanted to make good on a promise I made to him,” she explained. 'We only got a couple of shows left and I really am very sad about it,' Gaga told the crowd before singing Billy Strayhorn's 'Lush Life,' which she dedicated to Mr. Gaga also spoke with Colbert about her collaborative work with Bennett during an interview to pair with the performance. As Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's Cheek to Cheek world tour nears its end, the duo made a stop in Atlanta, GA for a sold-out show at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre. Reviewing for the Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood awarded it just one star on The Times’ four-star scale and labeled it “unbearable,” while the Boston Globe’s James Reed praised it, saying “ and Bennett bring out the best in each other.Earlier this month, the duo shared a performance of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” from Cheek To Cheek for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert filmed earlier this year at Radio City Music Hall. Reviews of “Cheek to Cheek” have gone both ways.
But the numbers represent a deep slide for Gaga, whose 2011 album “Born This Way” came out of the gate with 1.1 million copies in its first week, then quickly fell to the lower reaches of the Billboard 200.
The good news/bad news aspect of “Cheek to Cheek’s” sales, which totaled 130,521: That’s a strong showing for Bennett, though short of the 179,000 that “Duets II” sold three years ago. The show will see the iconic duo playing stripped-down versions of songs from their new album Love For Sale, which. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga promote their joint album 'Cheek To Cheek' at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Jin New York City. Three years ago, Bennett claimed that crown at 85 with his “Duets II” collection, and now has upped the ante to age 88 for his collaboration with Gaga, a 28-year-old artist young enough to be his great-granddaughter. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are set to share a new MTV Unplugged show this month. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. Pop odd couple Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga have taken the Great American Songbook back to the top of the pop charts with their duet album “Cheek to Cheek.” The week’s top album also means Bennett bests his own record as the oldest artist to reach the No. See some of Lady Gaga’s outfits in our slideshow above, and even more in the encore of Great Performances Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek LIVE on Friday, Januat 9PM EST.