Date 17/06/2015 - News People
Lady Gaga helped open the 2015 European Games last week with an operatic solo performance of John Lennon's "Imagine." Seated behind a piano adorned with flowers, the singer brought the massive crowd at Baku, Azerbaijan's Olympic Stadium to a reverent hush.
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Gaga stayed faithful to the original, the title track from Lennon's 1971 LP (and Number Three on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time). But she did add a soulful coda to the climax, belting with a wide vibrato. "What an honor to have a few moments with the world watching," she tweeted before taking the stage. "Could you imagine. What would you say?"??
