#Tony bennett lady gaga new album for free#

Watch Gaga and Bennett get emotional while creating the album cover in the 'I Concentrate On You' music video above.

#Tony bennett lady gaga new album for free#

We offer the public вЂњLove For SaleвЂќ for free love, to make them smile, because thatвЂ™s what weвЂ™re here for. He really is the symbol of hope for someone with a cognitive disorder.Tony, this is the last album we will have created together, but the celebration of jazz, and us as musical companions, will live on with me forever. He is doing so many things, at 94, that many people without dementia cannot do. Gayatri Devi, the neurologist who diagnosed Bennett, is impressed by the singerвЂ™s functional abilities, saying, вЂњ cognitive issues, but multiple other areas of his brain are still resilient and functioning well. The feature isnвЂ™t all sad stories about Bennett, though. Eager for as many ears as possible to hear and enjoy what may very well be the last Tony Bennett record, they have jointly decided to break the silence around his condition, a decision they have, necessarily, had to make without TonyвЂ™s input, since he is, Susan said, incapable of understanding the disease, let alone making momentous decisions about whether to publicly disclose it.вЂќ (When I asked him, вЂAre you excited about the new record with Gaga?вЂ™ he stared at me silently.) This has left those in charge of TonyвЂ™s life and career - chiefly Danny and Susan - in a quandary.

But there is one duty, in connection with the record, that Tony is manifestly not able to perform: promotional interviews. The piece then notes that Bennett will likely not be as present in promoting the album as he was with his and GagaвЂ™s first one: вЂњThe new LP offers lush, gorgeous duets, with both singers in superb voice. Gaga looks on, from behind her mic, her smile breaking into a quiver, her eyes brimming, before she puts her hands over her face and sobs.вЂќ The pain and sadness in GagaвЂ™s face is clear at such moments - but never more so than in an extraordinarily moving sequence in which Tony (a man she calls вЂan incredible mentor, and friend, and father figureвЂ™) sings a solo passage of a love song. вЂWasnвЂ™t that fun every night?вЂ™ she prompts him.

She says that she thinks вЂall the timeвЂ™ about their 2015 tour. вЂYou sound so good, Tony,вЂ™ she tells him at one point. Gaga, clearly aware of his condition, keeps her utterances short and simple (as is recommended by experts in the disease when talking to AlzheimerвЂ™s patients).

In raw documentary footage of the sessions, he speaks rarely, and when he does, his words are halting at times, he seems lost and bewildered. вЂњBut Tony was a considerably more muted presence during the recording of the new album with Gaga. The piece also reveals that Gaga and Bennett recorded a new album between 2018 and early 2020 and that the project is вЂњfinally being prepared for release this spring.вЂќ The feature then notes that Bennett was traditionally a demanding perfectionist in the studio before telling a heartbreaking story about his latest sessions with Gaga: The pair has a follow-up to that album on the way this year, but recording sessions werenвЂ™t always easy, which led to at least one emotional moment for Gaga.Д«ennett is the subject of a new AARP profile, which reveals that the singer was diagnosed with AlzheimerвЂ™s disease in 2016. In 2014, Lady Gaga teamed up with the now-94-year-old music legend Tony Bennett for their Grammy-winning collaborative album Cheek To Cheek.