LADY GAGA has come up with a way to make her live shows even more shocking - having dead bodies on stage. The singer is teaming up with corpse-preserving scientist GUNTHER VON HAGENS to spice up her already blood-soaked Monster Ball Tour. German doctor Von Hagens is a controversial figure who has outraged boffins with his Body Worlds exhibition of dead people.
Now GaGa wants the gruesome body pickler to design the set for her tour when it reaches Las Vegas next March. A friend of GaGa's said: "She is fascinated by Gunther's work and life. He grew up in Germany, a country she loves.
"He is quite a philosopher and has the kind of past she is drawn to. He was arrested and imprisoned after a student protest, braved the Metropolitan Police to stage the London autopsy and has ridden out the Body Worlds controversy.
"Gaga sees a kindred spirit and is hoping to meet him in New York.
"They've spoken over email and it's gone well. She is keen to have some Body Worlds element in one of her shows, with Vegas being the obvious fit.
"It would be good to top this tour - which is already out there - with something nobody has done before, using dead bodies as part of a gig."
Gunther's Body Worlds show, which has travelled the world, features dead people who have been preserved through his trademark plastination process - when bodily fluids are replaced by hardened silicone.
He caused outrage in the UK eight years ago by staging the first public autopsy in 170 years. It was shown on Channel 4.
He has also set up a mail order firm selling body parts - including a smoker's lung and a slice of head. GaGa is not afraid to push boundaries. Her recent shows have been near the knuckle.
source: The Sun
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