Critic Reviews

• Bennett’s got these songs under his skin, and pop’s Mother Monster does a brilliant job of helping him deliver them as a final gift to the world.

  Rating: 100/100
  The Independent

• It’s certainly delightful and delicious – as they croon on opening track De-Lovely – although also decidedly undemanding.

  Rating: 80/100
  The Telegraph

• This consistently classy collection is a fine way to take a final bow.

  Rating: 80/100
  Evening Standard

• Where Bennett underplays (partly from necessity), Gaga likes to overplay, so their performances meet somewhere in the middle, her theatricality flirting with his restraint.

  Rating: 70/100
  The Sydney Morning Herald

• ‘Love For Sale’ is emblematic of her incredible creative breadth, the culmination of a decade-long friendship with Tony Bennett.

  Rating: 70/100
  Clash

• Beyond sympathy and sentiment, Love for Sale disarms cynicism simply by being infectiously good fun.

  Rating: 60/100
  The Guardian

• A superhero team-up that has produced another album of rock-solid takes on the American songbook.

  Rating: 60/100
  Rolling Stone

• Though they’re vastly different icons, from entirely different generations, it’s testament to their power that both artists find their own voices in such timeless classics.

  Rating: 60/100
  NME

• True, Bennett recorded less Cole Porter than Sinatra, but he is such an appealing character, and he can give such wonderful empathy to a lyric, that is perhaps the main joy here.

  Rating: 60/100
  The Arts Desk

• This ebullient album feels like a fond farewell rather than a solemn goodbye.

  Rating: 60/100
  The Observer