NEW YORK – Two of New York’s finest entertainers made magic on one of the city’s most iconic stages.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga …
NEW YORK – Two of New York’s finest entertainers made magic on one of the city’s most iconic stages. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga came together last August at Radio City Music Hall for “One Last Time,” the first of two farewell shows the longtime friends and collaborators played in the leadup to their second joint album, “Love for Sale.” A TV special drawn from the two shows, “One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga,” airs Sunday (CBS,8 ET/PT). The seemingly unlikely duo first met in 2011 and released a jazz album, “Cheek to Cheek,” in 2014. Since then, Gaga has released two solo efforts including last year’s “Chromatica” and won a best original song Oscar for “Shallow” from 2018’s “A Star is Born.” Bennett, meanwhile, recorded two other duets albums with Bill Charlap and Diana Krall. He revealed in February that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Bennett, who turned 95 a day before the performances, was diagnosed with the disease in 2016. But the music legend was as spry and charismatic as ever as he performed a roughly half-hour solo set for the sold-out Radio City crowd, which gave him a standing ovation after nearly every song. Set-list highlights included “Steppin’ Out with My Baby,” “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Last Night When We Were Young,” as Bennett poignantly crooned about “the arms that clung when we were young last night.
