They kept receiving paychecks throughout the hiatus, but they were clearly eager to finally have a chance to work for them. Some of the happiest people in the arena were members of Billy Joel’s band. More than 320,000 different “Zanzibar” videos have popped up during the past few months, and the average age of the participants couldn’t be much higher than 18.
(That may be hard to believe, but check it out. Joel lost 50 pounds during the pandemic, making it seem like he aged in reverse during the downtime, and he also got some unexpected love from Gen Z thanks to Olivia Rodrigo’s “Uptown Girl” callout in her hit “Deja Vu” and TikTok teens turning his 1978 deep cut “Zanzibar” into a dance craze. “I thought we should have it here tonight.” “I had this on the piano when we did the after 9/11,” Joel said. His helmet rested on Joel’s piano for the entire night. On a more serious note, he dedicated “New York State of Mind” to Neil Skow, a New York City fireman who served on 9/11. She’s earned her degree? But she was always a woman to me!” What the hell was I talking about? She can’t be convicted? She can’t be expelled. “‘She can’t be convicted/She’s earned her degree.’ I don’t think a degree is getting anybody out of jail. “I’m still trying to figure out what that line means,” he said. (Taking in the show, it would have been easy to forget we were still in the middle of a pandemic: Few masks or any other sign of Covid protection were seen aside from the rigorous vaccine check required for entry.)Īfter “She’s Always a Woman,” Joel paused to address a particularly befuddling lyric in the song. It felt like seeing old friends after years apart. It had sold over 1.06 million copies by 2017.The set list was largely familiar to anyone who’s seen Joel at MSG since he started playing monthly shows there in January 2014, but the long layoff breathed new life into well-worn tunes like “My Life,” “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song),” “Allentown,” and “Pressure.” Even the non-hits like “All for Leyna,” “Everybody Loves You Now,” and “Sometimes a Fantasy” were greeted with thunderous applause. It was the second biggest-selling single of 1983 in the UK, and was the 19th biggest-selling single of the 1980s, selling 975,000 copies. It was a number three record in the US, and reached number one in the UK, his only number one in the country. The couple have remained good friends over the years while raising Alexa. They had one child together: Alexa Ray Joel, born December 29, 1985. However, the marriage ended in August 1994. Guests at the wedding included singer Paul Simon and members of the band Stray Cats. They first met in 1983 on the Island of St Barts, in the Caribbean, and were married on a yacht on the Hudson River, the second marriage for both of them.
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