Some Billy Joel songs just hit you differently now, 21 months after the Piano Man last tinkled those ivories at Madison Square Garden on Feb.
20, 2020 as part of his monthly residency at his hometown arena.Such was the case when Joel opened with “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” — from his 1976 album “Turnstiles” — at his kind of homecoming concert resuming his residency at the Garden on Friday night.When he sang, “Seen the lights go out on Broadway/I saw the Empire State laid low,” those lyrics took on a whole new meaning for him and his sold-out audience who had actually lived through those lyrics in the darkest days of the pandemic in New York.But the deafening roar of the crowd with each Big Apple reference during that.
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