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The full 71-minute show. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Lady Gaga debuted her new music video in Times Square this morning where the clip played on every Jumbotron. Her label is reportedly shocked that the single is already sinking on the charts and the follow-up is being rushed out in just two weeks.

We’ve already heard advance tracks by Giorgio Mororder and Chromeo from the coming Donna Summer remix album and today Billboard tips us to some of the rest of the slate. “Love to Love You Donna” will be released on Oct. 22 through Verve Records, and is produced by Dahlia-Ambach Caplin and Randall Poster. The project features new re-workings of classic …

The Guardian has the story:  The office of Russia’s prosecutor general has issued a statement confirming that neither singer obtained an appropriate visa prior to performing there last year. Madonna, who played in August 2012, and Gaga, who appeared in December, travelled under cultural-exchange visas. These documents “do not grant their bearers the right to engage in any commercial activity,” …

No idea what this is about, but the superfans seem very excited.

Madonna’s first album was released by Sire Records thirty years ago today. Rolling Stone noticed the release two months later: Madonna, who crashed onto the dance charts last year with “Everybody,” has a voice that takes some getting used to. At first, it doesn’t sound like much at all. Then you notice its one distinguishing feature, a girlish hiccup that …

“You try keeping a 46 year-old gay man away from Cher.”

Never seen it on the big screen. I’ll be tempted.

The photos above are from where Dr. Jeff and I were in the backstage area last night, where we could see Cher’s giant teleprompters, which not only scrolled the words to her hits, but included stage directions. Tell the truth (point, point), This is a woman’s world (four fist pumps), This is a woman’s world. I’m not convinced that the …

Lady Gaga made an unannounced appearance at last night’s NYC Pride rally at Pier 26 in Tribeca. Her full speech is here.

Tonight Cher performed her new single, Woman’s World, on the finale of The Voice at the same time that the lyric video for the track was posted to her channel on YouTube. UPDATE: Gay singer/songwriter Matt Morris wrote the track!

I told you that you’d squee. Via press release: New York City, June 18, 2013 – The one and only Cher is headed to New York City to perform at the legendary, Dance on the Pier, it was confirmed today by NYC Pride. Cher will be performing her new single, “Woman’s World” from her upcoming CD scheduled to be released …

Allegedly. Not even a million dollars could convince Lady Gaga to perform during last summer’s Republican National Convention. The snub by the pop star is included in a lawsuit filed by a powerful Republican nonprofit fundraising organization, American Action Network, against a vendor whose job was to stage entertainment just outside the doors to the GOP’s convention in August. Documents …

Women’s Wear Daily claims that Madonna has reached billionaire status. Madonna’s net worth had already been estimated at around $700 million, thanks to her recent record-breaking MDNA world tour, which grossed more than $305 million last year, and drew $75 million from show merchandise sales and $10 million in TV rights and DVD sales. Madonna has boosted her personal fortune …