Billy Joel Dazzles New York at One of His Final Madison Square Garden Residencies: Concert Review
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Billy Joel was giving a prelude to a song off one of his more obscure albums, 1974’s “Streetlife Serenade,” when a concertgoer at Madison Square Garden beat him to the punchline. “The Entertainer!” “Oh, that’s right.
You’ve been here before,” Joel cracked to the sold-out crowd on the 95th night of his residency at the iconic New York venue. “What a shock.” This rainy Friday evening kicked off the first of Joel’s final 10 concerts in his record-breaking Madison Square Garden residency, which will end next year after 150 shows.
And for a singer with such a beloved catalog and generation-spanning fanbase, most of the audience certainly needs no introduction to the some 34 songs he played over two and a half hours.
Despite his quip earlier in the night, he’s well aware these people aren’t here to hear anything from this decade, or even millennium.
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