{"id":29946,"date":"2024-07-18T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-18-2008-billy-joel-plays-final-concert-at-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:03:40","slug":"on-this-day-july-18-2008-billy-joel-plays-final-concert-at-new-yorks-shea-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-18-2008-billy-joel-plays-final-concert-at-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 18, 2008: Billy Joel plays final concert at New York\u2019s Shea Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-18\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billy Joel\u00a0<\/strong>performed the final concert at New York&#8217;s historic Shea Stadium ahead of its demolition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show, a culmination of a two-night stand at the home of the New York Mets, saw Joel welcoming several guests, including\u00a0<strong>Tony Bennett<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Steven Tyler<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Roger Daltrey\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, who was driven to the stage by the same groundskeeper who drove\u00a0<strong>The Beatles\u00a0<\/strong>when they played Shea in 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A documentary of the shows,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Last Play at Shea<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, premiered in 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival and later played at Citi Field, the stadium that replaced Shea. A CD and DVD of the shows were released in March 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joel is getting ready to say another goodbye. After 10 years, the rocker is set to wrap his residency at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden on July 25, his 150th show at the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel\u00a0performed the final concert at New York&#8217;s historic Shea Stadium ahead of its demolition. The show, a culmination of a two-night stand at the home of the New York Mets, saw Joel welcoming several guests, including\u00a0Tony Bennett,\u00a0Garth Brooks,\u00a0Steven Tyler,\u00a0Roger Daltrey\u00a0and\u00a0Paul McCartney, who was driven to the stage by the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-18-2008-billy-joel-plays-final-concert-at-new-yorks-shea-stadium\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}