Album review: Love For Sale, by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga

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Album review: Love For Sale, by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett

Thu, 30 Sep, 2021 - 21:30
Ed Power

★★★★☆

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are artists from different universes. He’s the 95-year-old king of the smoothies, perhaps second only to friend and rival Frank Sinatra in the pantheon of golden-era crooners. Gaga is a cybernetic pop star, last seen setting virtual dance floors alight with 2020’s grippingly futuristic Chromatica album (and who will next materialise affecting a terrible Italian accent as socialite Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci).

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