Pop icon looks unrecognisable in AC/DC music video as teenager before fame
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Lady Gaga has revealed she featured in AC/DC’s music video for Stiff Upper Lip, and we think we might have found her. During an episode of Apple TV’s A Carpool Karaoke Christmas this weekend, Lady Gaga told the story of her surprising appearance. DJ Zane Lowe got the legendary rock group’s frontman Brian Johnson, 77, to join Gaga in the car and the pop queen told the story of her being told not to ‘headbang’ in the promo for their 2000 track.
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She remembered: ‘I was in [the] ‘Stiff Upper Lip video. ‘I was 17 and I was an extra in the back and I was headbanging. ‘And they were like, “Don’t headbang. We want it to be modern.” And I was like, “No, I can’t. Like, there’s only one move that I can do.”‘.
While the Just Dance hitmaker said she was 17, she was born in 1986 – so was actually 14 when the music video was recorded. A person who looks suspiciously like Gaga with long brown hair can be seen dancing away to the rock anthem on a balcony, as the band perform their banger in the street.
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This was around eight years before Gaga found her own success, after her first big hit Just Dance exploded into the mainstream when she was in her early 20s in 2009. Metal and rock lover Gaga also belted out Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog and shared the ‘crazy’ story of how she came to duet with Bruno Mars, 39, on their hit song Die With A Smile.
She said: ‘I went to see him at like 10 o’clock at night. He played me the idea and then we wrote the second verse, then we cut it at two in the morning. Bruno had me singing for four hours. He had an exact way that he wanted to hear it, and I wanted to give him that.’.
