Lady Gaga's News

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The world-renowned artist, Lady Gaga came in to talk to 92.3 NOW's DJ Toro about her string of upcoming shows right here in New York as she closes up the iconic Roseland Ballroom for good, starting this Friday, March 28th. The Roseland Ballroom has been one of the city's most well known music and dance venues for decades and Gaga even reminisced about her most vivid memory there while growing up here in the city.

"Well, I actually went to see Franz Ferdinand at Roseland when I was just getting out of high school. And I broke my nose at the show because I got thrown into a mosh pit and then I went to a bar with my girlfriends and I used my fake Delaware ID to get in and I was using a bud light to nurse my freshly broken nose. I had to lie to my mom and say that I walked into a door or something but she knew what had occurred," said Gaga.

Mother Monster is set to be the final performer on the Roseland stage. After 95 years, the doors are closing for good. Growing up, Gaga started performing in smaller venues that held less than 200 people and now her concerts at Roseland are sold out at more than 3,800 each night.

"I'm so excited to be closing it out. I've played so many venues in New York but they were all smaller, The Cutting Room, the Bitter End, I've played CBGBs, I've played the Knitting Factory, I've played Arlene's Grocery and then I had some hit singles and I started to play The Garden and started to play stadiums all over the world and it's nice to come back and now play a venue that I couldn't fill back in the beginning because it holds two thousand people and I'm playing seven shows in a residency and I'm starting on my birthday," said Gaga.

The closing of the Roseland Ballroom is a big deal for her as well as native New Yorkers and music fanatics alike. She thinks her show will do justice to all the performers that have played there over the years and will help leave a legacy that everyone will remember.

"I'm excited, I don't feel like I'm leaving just my legacy, I feel like I'm leaving the legacy of many artists that have played on that stage, and it's important to acknowledge the history. We've put together a really nostalgic show and it's really a blend of the Monster Ball and the Born This Way Ball and the ARTPOP Ball actually with a little bit of the Fame Ball which was my very first baby tour," said Gaga.