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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 ...
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]
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.
Cannata was born 3 March 1949 [4] in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ernest (26 March 1914 – 14 April 1993) [5] and Anna (February 25, 1926 — 1 April 2007) [6] Cannata. . Interested in music from a very early age, Cannata was introduced by his family [7] first to the piano at the age of four and later to clarinet and tenor saxophone at the age of
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 ...
Billy Joel performing in 2017. Billy Joel is the "Piano Man," and the song is celebrating its 50th anniversary.. Originally released on Nov. 2, 1973, Joel's signature song isn't even the tune that ...
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.
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.