Billy Joel has carried out his 1974 monitor ‘Los Angelenos’ reside for the primary time in over 4 a long time.
While performing on the Madison Square Garden in New York earlier this week (April 25), Billy Joel introduced the monitor out of its unofficial retirement, enjoying it reside for the primary occasions since 1981.
“We never do this song, we haven’t done this since the ’80s, I think. Let’s give it a shot,” Joel mentioned after talking about residing in Los Angeles.
Watch fan-shot footage of Billy Joel performing ‘Los Angelenos’ reside beneath.
Elsewhere in his set at Madison Square Garden, Joel performed hits like ‘My Life’, ‘Summer, Highland Falls’, a canopy of The Rolling Stones‘ ‘Start Me Up’, ‘The Entertainer’, ‘New York State of Mind’, ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’, ‘Uptown Girl’ and ‘You May Be Right’.
Check out Billy Joel’s full set record from New York on April 25 beneath.
‘My Life’
‘Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)’
‘Summer, Highland Falls’
‘Zanzibar’
‘Start Me Up’ (The Rolling Stones cowl)
‘An Innocent Man’
‘The Entertainer’
‘Just the Way You Are’
‘Los Angelenos’ (first time since 1981)
‘Allentown’
‘Vienna’
‘Don’t Ask Me Why’
‘New York State of Mind’
‘The Downeaster Alexa’
‘Sometimes a Fantasy’
‘Only the Good Die Young’
‘The River of Dreams’
‘Nessun Dorma’ (Giacomo Puccini cowl – sung by Mike DelGuidice)
‘Scenes From an Italian Restaurant’
‘Piano Man’
‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’
‘Uptown Girl’
‘It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me’
‘Big Shot’
‘You May Be Right’
Billy Joel is ready to play a string of reveals throughout america from between May 2023 till March subsequent 12 months. Outside of North America, Joel was introduced in September as a headliner of BST Hyde Park‘s 2023 program. He’ll carry out for the collection on Friday July 7, marking his solely UK efficiency for the 12 months.
In March final 12 months, it was introduced {that a} biopic primarily based on the singer is within the works, although Joel won’t be concerned and hasn’t granted rights to his music, identify/likeness or life story for the undertaking. Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios, which is heading the undertaking, acquired the life rights to Billy Joel’s first supervisor Irwin Mazur, who managed the musician from 1965 to 1972.