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Billy Joel announces "Johnny Almond on sax," after an April 1975 live performance of "New York State of Mind", including a saxophone solo, on his album Live at The Great American Music Hall (1975). Almond's version is unique, but contains similar sentimental and jazzy qualities that would later appear on the Turnstiles album. [5]
Long Island legend Billy Joel proves he's still a class act after making a surprise appearance at a local elementary school. WNYW reports, "The Piano Man showed up to one elementary school spring ...
Barbra Streisand covered "New York State of Mind" on her album Superman, released in the Spring of 1977, opening up Billy Joel's music to a mainstream audience. He thanked her for the exposure, and also told her his New York relatives were duly impressed to have the Queen of Brooklyn cover one of his songs.
2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two-disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000. On May 31, 2000, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 250,000 copies. The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City , during Joel's The Night of Two Thousand Years Tour.
Joel last performed at the Grammys in February 2002 when he joined the late Tony Bennett for a duet on “New York State on Mind,” which originally appeared on Joel’s 1976 album, Turnstiles.
Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium is the fourth video album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. It was recorded during two concerts of the Storm Front Tour at Yankee Stadium in New York City on June 22 and 23, 1990. It was televised on September 2, 1990, released on VHS later that year, and released on DVD in late 2000.
Brooks performed "Shameless" with Joel during Joel's Last Play at Shea concerts in 2008, and after Brooks performed it in his Central Park concert in 1997, Joel came out on stage and they sang a duet of "New York State of Mind." In 2011, Joel and Brooks performed the song together again when Brooks was inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame ...
Good news for Billy Joel fans.. His burst of real estate activity, what with buying and selling homes in Palm Beach, Manalapan and New York, is a means to an end.. We're going to be seeing more of ...