33 h. ago Lady Gaga Fan attends Mayhem Ball tour and interaction with star leaves her in awe

Lady Gaga fans have flocked to London's O2 to catch the opening night of the Mayhem Ball tour's European leg, and one fan got closer to the star than they anticipated

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3 d. ago Five things we learnt at Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball at London’s O2 Arena

Beyond the spectacle, it was a show packed with moments that reminded fans why Gaga remains pop’s most fearless superstar

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3 d. ago Lady Gaga review – from skeletons to sexy plague doctors, this is a glorious, ridiculous spectacle

O2 Arena, LondonMove over Chappell Roan – Gaga’s eighth world tour is a full-blooded return to OTT camp, with a Nietzschean nemesis and a zombified crowd of fans driven berserk with gleeLady Gaga’s eighth world tour, The Mayhem Ball, does not lack ambition. It lasts two hours and features 30 songs. It comes divided into five acts, each with a deeply portentous title that glows from the big screens in blood-red gothic script: Of Velvet and Vice; The Beautiful Nightmare That Knows Her Name; Every Chessboard Has Two Queens. It arrives preceded by a lengthy film in which next to nothing happens: resplendent in a ruff and leg of mutton sleeves, Lady Gaga looks pensive and occasionally writes on a scroll with an absolutely enormous feathered quill, while opera booms in the background.Perhaps she’s paying tribute once more to her avowed influence Andy Warhol, in this case his notorious always-leave-them-wanting-less approach to cinema. When it becomes apparent that looking pensive and writ...

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3 d. ago Lady Gaga: The Mayhem Ball at the O2 review — put your paws up for the stadium show of the century

If we could give this show six stars we would

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3 d. ago Lady Gaga review, O2 Arena London: Pop star’s Mayhem Ball is the concert of the year

No set piece is too elaborate, no framing device too ludicrous, for this show of wall-to-wall bangers that suggests Gaga isn’t ready to give up her pop crown just yet

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7 d. ago ‘There's no one like Gaga’: Stylist Rhea Francois on curating London fashion pop

EXCLUSIVE Stylist Rhea Francois tells the Standard how she channelled Gaga’s most iconic eras for a new curated rental collection launching in London ahead of the singer’s Mayhem Ball shows at The O2

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