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00:00 Lady Gaga is mourning the loss of her friend and collaborator Tony Bennett, who died on
00:05 July 21st at the age of 96.
00:10 Lady Gaga begins her July 31st Instagram message with "I will miss my friend forever.
00:17 I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together."
00:24 She continues, "With Tony I got to live my life in a time warp.
00:29 Tony and I had this magical power.
00:31 We transported ourselves to another era, modernized the music together, and gave it all the new
00:38 life as a singing duo.
00:40 But it wasn't an act.
00:42 Our relationship was very real."
00:44 "I've been grieving the loss of Tony for a long time," she writes, who was diagnosed
00:50 with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, adding, "We had a very long and powerful goodbye."
00:58 Losing Tony to Alzheimer's has been very painful, but it was also really beautiful.
01:04 An era of memory loss is such a sacred time in a person's life.
01:09 There's such a feeling of vulnerability and desire to preserve dignity.
01:14 All I wanted was for Tony to remember how much I loved him and how grateful I was to
01:19 have him in my life.
01:21 But as that faded slowly, I knew deep down he was sharing with me the most vulnerable
01:27 moment in his life that he could, being willing to sing with me when his nature was changing
01:33 so deeply.
01:35 Lady Gaga concludes with a message to her friend, saying, "I love you, Tony.
01:41 Love Lady."
01:43 The two started singing together after first meeting at a Benefit concert in 2014.
01:50 After collaborating on Tony's 2011 album, Duets 2, the pair released their first album,
01:57 Cheek to Cheek, in 2014, which later won a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
02:05 In 2021, the two released another album, Love for Sale.
02:10 That same year, Lady Gaga spoke with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes about performing with
02:16 Tony at Radio City Music Hall during the final shows of his career.
02:22 In the interview, Lady Gaga recalls the emotional moment that Tony remembered her name after
02:27 she stepped out on stage.
02:29 "Hey, Tony.
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