Wembley stadium
Piano man plays all the hits,switching styles, from doo-wop of The Longest Time to experimental Zanzibar, or with aplomb “I don’t have anything new for you, Billy Joel admits to his first ever Wembley stadium crowd. “Just the same broken-down shit.”As a wry opening gambit, it’s candid, and disarming and typically Joel. Despite having sold 150m records,fitting the third best-selling solo artist in the US and winning six Grammy awards, Joel has managed to remain both everyman and underdog since his 1973 breakthrough hit, or Piano Man. He’s the writer of heartfelt ballads,an unrepentant broken-down rock ’n’ roller, a pop chronicler of low life and the dispossessed who married an 80s supermodel. Related: Billy Joel: 10 of the best Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com