Lady Gaga sang “Highway to Hell” alongside AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson in a “Carpool Karaoke” Christmas special.
Johnson drives himself on the “Highway to Hell”
The singer looked visibly surprised when the car door opened and Brian Johnson got behind the wheel of the vehicle. The rock star with the flat cap was happy about the successful surprise – and planted a kiss on the temple of his future duet partner. “Guys, are you ready to rock?” asked presenter Zane Low from the back seat – and Johnson accelerated.
The Christmas special of the Apple TV format “Carpool Karaoke” appeared unannounced on the streaming platform on Sunday (December 15th). In the new episode, Chappell Roan and Dua Lipa were also invited to sing their hearts out in the car to festive classics and their own hits.
Watch the trailer here:
AC/DC fan since she was a teenager
On the “highway to hell” things got rocky while driving: three unmistakable guitar chords played. Lady Gaga raised her fists: “This is the moment,” she said – and then she and Johnson launched into the first verse of “Highway to Hell”: “Living easy, living free, season ticket on a one-way ride “. The musicians kept holding each other’s hands.
“Do you want to hear something funny?” Lady Gaga had previously asked the two men, “I played in the video ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ from 2000.” In the music video in question, the members of the hard rock band are cruising in a red Hummer through the city, get stuck in a traffic jam in an alley and give an impromptu concert. In the curious crowd: the young Stefani Germanotta, the real name of the Pokerface singer. “I was 17 and I was a background extra – and I was headbanging,” she recalled. “And they said, ‘Don’t headbang. We want it to be modern.’ And I said, ‘No, I can’t. There’s only this one move I can make.’”