{"id":16587,"date":"2017-11-05T21:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays.homeworkacetutors.com\/piano-man-returns-to-boston-garden\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:30:38","slug":"piano-man-returns-to-boston-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/piano-man-returns-to-boston-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Man Returns To Boston Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> Piano Man Returns to Boston Garden<\/p>\n<p>It was eight o\u2019clock on a Monday, and the regular crowd shuffled in. But it wasn\u2019t until 8: 20 that Billy Joel took the stage for the final Boston appearance in his 1993 \u201cRiver of Dreams\u201d tour. It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t know better, you might think that Billy Joel came to town to promote his greatest hits album; because if you were lucky enough to get tickets to one of the three sold-out shows, that\u2019s what you were treated to. The piano man opened big on the 14th (only the second show of the tour), and on the 20th he closed even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the third time, good evening, Boston. How the hell are ya? Last year we started the tour in Worcester. This year I thought we\u2019d start the tour downtown,\u201d said Joel, once again reaffirming his excitement to be back in the North End for the first time since the \u201970s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his two hours of stage work, Joel did everything from his best Bob Dylan impersonation to an opinion poll about his beard. Amid incredible lighting effects, Joel reeled off hits like \u201cPressure,\u201d \u201cAllentown,\u201d and \u201cMy Life,\u201d while mixing in a few tracks from his new album \u201cThe River of Dreams.\u201d Joel even donned the accordion for a rendition of his \u201cStorm Front\u201d tune, \u201cThe Downeaster Alexa.\u201d \u201cWhen I went to school,\u201d said Joel, \u201cif you took piano lessons, they beat the [ ] out of you, and if you played the accordion, they\u2019d really kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it was Joel who did the killing as the real show began when he slipped into a moving rendition of \u201cGoodnight Saigon\u201d complete with blasting helicopter sound effects, followed by \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire,\u201d an energetic \u201cYou May Be Right,\u201d and a finale of the classic \u201cOnly the Good Die Young.\u201d To no surprise, Joel came back for a two-song encore. Surprising, however was his rendition of the Elvis great \u201cAll Shook Up\u201d for the first time in over a year, before he moved into an antics-filled performance of \u201cBig Shot.\u201d Just moments after he said his second good-bye, Joel returned to the stage for a final encore. The crowd\u2019s anticipation erupted as Joel took the centerstage piano with harmonica in hand. Cleverly faking out the crowd, Joel began to play the first few lines of one of his less notable songs before stopping and breaking out into his masterpiece, \u201cPiano Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The night could not have ended any better as the band fell silent upon the last chorus to hear 15,000 fans sing to Joel, \u201cSing us a song, you\u2019re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. For we\u2019re all in the mood for a melody, and you\u2019ve got us feeling all right.\u201d n<\/p>\n<p>Review by E. 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