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“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star,”  Lady Gaga  told  Rolling Stone  for  her first cover story  in 2009. She was talking about her state of mind before her big breakthrough the year prior, but by the time she spoke to  RS , Gaga didn’t need to pretend. She had become a bona fide megastar and an heir to the pop throne, just like the Madonnas, Janets, and Britneys before her. And it was all thanks to the self-fulfilling prophecy of her debut album, boldly titled  The Fame . Prior to  The Fame , Gaga was languishing in New York’s Lower East Side as just another hopeful. The Manhattan-born Stefani Germanotta dropped out of NYU, where she studied music and would perform piano ballads at the legendary, nearby Bitter End. She embedded herself in the club scene, launching Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue with Lady Starlight. The pair’s pop-burlesque show paid tribute to the Seventies and helped to mold Gaga’s onstage pe...