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January 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

House of Gucci: Film

House of Gucci Director: Ridley Scott Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Bon Creative/Scott Free Productions / Universal Pictures I really loved House of Gucci. I was interested enough in it anyway, but the thing that totally amped me for it was this advance nonsense about Lady Gaga being the only good thing in it; about it being a load of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Crime, Drama, Film, Film Review, House of Gucci, House of Gucci: Film, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Lady Gaga, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Bon Creative/Scott Free Productions / Universal Pictures, Movie, Movie Review, Ridley Scott, True Story, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two records from artists that I believe have been influenced by Nick Cave – and in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2021, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018819180/music-critic-simon-sweetman, Jesse Mulligan, Lady Gaga, Love For Sale, November, Ocean To Ocean, Radio, Radio NZ, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews: November 2021, Tony Bennett, Tori Amos ·

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October 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Love For Sale Interscope It’s been five years since Tony Bennett’s initial Alzheimer’s diagnosis. And he has just turned 95. This is his recorded swansong. He chose Lady Gaga to share the bill with him, rekindling their duet-connection from 2014’s Cheek to Cheek. This time around rather than just sing […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Duets, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Lady Gaga, Love For Sale, Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Film Review – ‘A Star Is Born’

I watched that new version of A Star Is  Born – it features Bradley Cooper as a nose fetishist and Lady Gaga as a nose.  He was the bad side of Kris Kristofferson, none of the wisdom or insight in the lyrics, none of the heft or deft or breadth – fucking plod-happy nothing-songs that apparently  get a crowd.  (He fingers the nose to an Allman Brothers song. And 12 first cousins […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper, Film Review, Film Review - ‘A Star Is Born’, Lady Gaga, Poem, Poem: Film Review - ‘A Star Is Born’ ·

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September 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here To Stay

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall Love Is Here To Stay Verve Since his son helped reinvent his career some 25 years ago Tony Bennett has played a simple, familiar card: Warm, weathered versions of the standards with which he made his name (the first time around). The Unplugged album was the thing that relaunched him […]
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October 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Lady Gaga: Joanne

Lady Gaga Joanne Interscope Lady Gaga is in the middle of a re-brand. Time out from the crazy outfits and a serious album of duets with Tony Bennett has been followed up with acting roles, a song for a documentary and now this, her first real serious – adult – singer/songwriter album. Unfortunately, you have […]
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January 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek Streamline/Columbia/Interscope Ever since his MTV Unplugged album/show/comeback Tony Bennett has been brilliant at seemingly reinventing himself while essentially lining up to do the very same thing he’s always done. He’s as spritely as can be – he’ll be 89 next birthday! – and he keeps finding new […]
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December 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 36 – Lady Gaga, Auckland, 2010

I’ve told this story a bit, mentioned it in passing more than a few times, you see we were in Auckland for a Pixies concert and I chanced my arm for some freebies to Lady Gaga the following night. On a whim. The idea was simply to take in that sort of show – it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Auckland, Lady Gaga, Live, Live Gig, Live Show, Pixies, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 36 – Lady Gaga, Vector Arena ·

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September 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1864

Trini Lopez, Live At PJ’s (1963) Often it’s about how you experience the music; how it’s introduced to you. I used to work long weekend shifts in a record store back in the mid/late-1990s. We still sold cassette tapes. And vinyl – before it was all about vinyl reissues. And we sold CDs and T-shirts. […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged If I Had A Hammer, Lady Gaga, Live At PJ's, Pixies, Trini Lopez, Vinyl ·

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