Video: Lady Gaga Closed the First-Ever iHeartRadio Music Festival With an Hour of Pure Spectacle and Real Emotion

Closing out the inaugural iHeartRadio Music Festival at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in 2011, Lady Gaga extended her planned 45-minute set into a full hour she called a “Surrogate Monster Ball,” moving through explosive renditions of “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” and “Poker Face” against a biker-themed stage production before the night shifted into something far more personal, with Gaga delivering an acoustic version of “Hair” dedicated to Jamey Rodemeyer, a young fan who had recently died by suicide after being bullied, and closing with a surprise duet alongside Sting that cemented the entire set as the defining moment of the festival’s first edition.