Lady Gaga once said that Tony Bennett «saved my life.» And in the end, she saved his right back. Bennett died Friday at the age of 96 following an Alzheimer’s battle.
On the surface, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga certainly appeared like the oddest of couples.
That was most definitely the case when the “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” crooner paired up with the shock diva — who sang “He ate my heart” on 2009’s “Monster” — for their first collaborative album, 2014’s “Cheek to Cheek.”
The two had previously worked together, on his 2011 “Duets II” LP, playfully partnering on “The Lady Is a Tramp,” the same year that Mother Monster had gone full-on zombie in her “Born This Way” video.
That was about as far as you could get from Bennett’s classy, debonair style. I mean, did you ever see the man not in a perfectly tailored suit?
Indeed, about the only thing that Bennett — who died at 96 on Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease — seemed to have in common with the nearly 60-years-younger Gaga was that they were both native New Yorkers.
