Lady Gaga had a lot on her mind earlier this month when she sat down with Late Show host Stephen Colbert for an expansive interview at the storied Bitter End venue in New York’s Greenwich Village, where then-unknown Stefani Germanotta first performed as her now world-famous alter ego in 2005.

Wearing all black, including a black hood and knee-high black boots, Gaga reminisced about the first time she performed at the venue as a 14-year-old, marveling at the memory of the house crew helping out by tuning the piano — which was on the stage just over Colbert’s shoulder — and playing the venue regularly for the next three years under her birth name while showing off vintage flyers from those days that her mother had kept.

Another vital keepsake from the early days of her Gaga era was a pictu

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