Lady Gaga Duets ‘Highway to Hell’ With Brian Johnson: ‘Little Darling’

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Lady Gaga’s performance at Carpooling Karaoke‘s Christmas special featured a sweet moment with Brian Johnson. Partway through her drive with Zane Lowe in the episode that premiered on Apple TV+, the “Disease” singer is surprised by the AC/DC frontman and they team up for a rendition of “Highway to Hell.”

“Hey, honey,” Johnson says as he approaches the car, surprising Gaga, who starts laughing in shock. “My little Lady Gaga. My little darling.”

“Oh, my God! You brought me Brian Johnson?” Gaga says with a smile.

Johnson takes the wheel of the Range Rover as Gaga declares: “This is the moment!”

Johnson and Gaga then begin the duet “Highway to Hell”, with Gaga and Johnson lending their raspy, complementary vocals to the 1979 rock classic. At one point, Gaga and Johnson hold hands as Gaga helps redirect the steering wheel.

“I got it! I’m using my secret weapon,” Johnson says with a laugh as Gaga replies, “We’re all going to die!”

Then Gaga makes a revelation to Johnson. “You want to hear something funny? I was in the ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ video,” Gaga tells Johnson.

“No you weren’t!” Johnson replies.

“I was 17 and I was an extra in the back. I was headbanging and they were like, ‘Hmmm. Don’t bang, we want it to be modern,'” Gaga said. “And I thought, ‘No, there’s only one move I can make’.”

Earlier in the episode, Gaga shows a video of her grandmother screaming and singing the lyrics to “Highway to Hell” while laughing. “She had a really hard life and she was the most positive person no matter what,” Gaga explains to Lowe.

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The special A Carpool Karaoke Christmasalso starring Dua Lipa and Chappell Roan, who brings her parents along for the trip in Missouri.

“What she stands for is a lot of hope, but what she’s taught me as a father is respect for other people and all people,” Roan’s father says in part of the episode. “That’s what I want people to understand: Everything about her is about loving everyone, and she taught me that.”