The piano man is ending his residency.
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He really wants to give us all a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack with how expensive these ticket prices are going to get.is ending his long-running phenomenon of a residency at Madison Square Garden, which began as a standing monthly gig back in January 2014. The piano man’s last show will be performed with fanfare in July 2024. Since its inception, Joel has become the artist with MSG’s most lifetime performances at 136, and he broke another record with 90 of them being consecutive shows.
to move to Florida, and he’s been doing several joint stadium shows with Stevie Nicks around the country.in 2018 about a full retirement from touring, Joel didn’t believe it would be in his near future. “There have been times when I’ve felt,nah, ” he explained. “I have the greatest job in the world. You get up there, you make a lot of noise, girls scream, and you get shitloads of money. Are you fucking kidding me?” However, he acknowledged that if his voice began to falter, it would signal the beginning of the end. “I’m already struggling. I wrote most of the songs that I’m doing when I was in my 20s and 30s and it ain’t easy to hit those notes in my 60s. We’ve dropped the keys of some songs already,” Joel added.
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