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Lady Gaga Tickets – Gaga, Springsteen and Elton John sing ‘Don’t Stop Believing’
It is perhaps a professional amateur karaoke singer’s wet dream: Book Carnegie Hall, one of the biggest, most infamous venues in the country, pack the stage with a veritable who’s who of pop music, and let them join together for a brilliant and rousing version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”
Now: what if the who’s who included big names like Lady Gaga, Elton John, Debbie Harry and Mary J. Blige? Bizarre and mind-warping, but they are all divas (especially Elton). But throw in New Jersey’s finest, Bruce Springsteen, and you’ve got a truly improbable fever dream.
Or so you’d think. But it all really happened recently, reports the New York Daily News, as part of an annual fundraiser designed to preserve parts of the Amazon rainforest. The star-studded event was originally organized by Sting, and since starting it has become a wonderful way to watch pop stars cover each other’s musical material.
Seductress Lady Gaga most definitely stole the show at the recent Carnegie Hall event, appearing in a white dress that resembled bandage wrappings, or perhaps a mummy’s ballroom gown. While most of the evening’s other artists took a more comical or free-wheeling tact, Lady Gaga went for serious. Sitting at a piano, she performed a moving version of “Stand by Me.” It was certainly a different side of the fashionista pop figure that the mainstream has gotten used to seeing through artsy videos and live stage shows.
Of course, she had some competition in the form of Elton John, who seems to have been trying to gather eyeballs with his own vivacious performance. To begin with, he chose Madonna’s songs “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin” as covers. And while he’s not young enough to pull off the eye-popping costumes that Lady Gaga gets away with, he found some nice young men who were—though it wasn’t their costumes that made eyes pop, but rather the lack of them. The “Bad Boys of Dance” troupe was synchronized to Elton John’s performance, and they seemed to impress the Daily News: “Taking a deep, and well-advised, breath, he dove into Madonna’s “Material Girl” and “Like a Virgin” while a kick line of go-go boys in Speedos flitted around him with moves worthy of Cirque Du Soleil.”
One has to wonder if Elton John feels slightly intimidated by Lady Gaga, the new reigning queen of campy costumes and art-house stage performances in the music realm. We think not; they seem to get along well enough—so well, after all, that they joined Debbie Harry of Blondie, R&B singer Mary J. Blige and rock legend the Boss for the Journey cover of “Don’t Stop Believing.” Rumors have abounded online that Springsteen had never actually heard the song before rehearsing for the show. Video that was smuggled out of the venue and is floating around on YouTube reveals the whole crew delivered one of the most awesome versions of the song anyone has ever heard.
There’s just one thing that could top it, and that’s Gaga’s astounding live shows. Get <a href=”http://www.stubhub.com/lady-gaga-tickets/”>Lady Gaga tickets</a> from StubHub.
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Lady Gaga – Speechless (Karaoke/Instrumental)
