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Billy Joel’s residency at Madison Square Garden finishes in July 2024, however he’s not mothballing the trip bus right now.
At the Nov. 21 sneak peek of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame’s occupation retrospective, Billy Joel: My Life — A Piano Man’s Journey, the expert artist informed the group, “I’m not leaving [touring]. We’ll still do the work — we’re just not going to keep working in the same place. We’re going to different places.”
My Life is a trip down the lengthy, at some point renowned occupation of Long Island’s preferred child, that was birthed in the Bronx, matured in the Oyster Bay district of Levittown and took place to rack up 42 Billboard Hot 100 hits — 13 in the leading 10, and 3 of them No. 1sts — and that holds the document for the most variety of efficiencies at New York’s Madison Square Garden: 136. The LIMEHoF display, which lies at the Stony Brook Village Center, consists of a program from Joel’s very first piano recital, at the age of 12 in 1961; his individual publication of verses; tools from among his very first bands, The Hassles; a seat torn from among Joel’s 1987 performances in the Soviet Union that is signed by band participants (Joel’s engraving reviews, “Swimsuits!”); eight-track tapes and picture-sleeve 45s of his cds and songs; gold and platinum cds of his hits, and the nine-foot grand piano he used his Face to Face Tour with Elton John.
“Where is Elton, by the way?” Joel asked the group with a smile. “He’s retiring [from live performances], but I think he’ll show up somewhere again.”
Billy Joel
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The show’s developers stated that roughly half of the display’s souvenirs originated from Joel et cetera from followers when they discovered it was prepared. During the sneak peek, visitors might be seen explaining their contributions to buddies.
Joel, that was using a Deus Ex Machina Custom Motorcyles cap, stated that though those collected might have seen his Oyster Bay home available for sale — not his youth home, a 26-acre estate provided at $49 million, although it supposedly is no longer on the marketplace — he was not leaving Long Island. “This is my home; it will always be my home. We will always have this as our home — and we’ll come and visit this place a lot.”
“It’s a little overwhelming. Have you ever found yourself surrounded by you? It’s kind of a nightmare,” he informed the group prior to wrapping up, “I guess I’ve lived.”
Billy Joel
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