{"id":30019,"date":"2024-07-29T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madison-square-garden-gifts-billy-joel-a-custom-motorcycle-to-mark-end-of-residency\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:03:13","slug":"madison-square-garden-gifts-billy-joel-a-custom-motorcycle-to-mark-end-of-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madison-square-garden-gifts-billy-joel-a-custom-motorcycle-to-mark-end-of-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Square Garden gifts Billy Joel a custom motorcycle to mark end of residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-29\/Getty_BillyJoel_072924.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Jason Kempin\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>\u00a0has wrapped his Madison Square Garden residency, and to celebrate the momentous occasion the venue gave the rocker a very special gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/07\/26\/entertainment\/madison-square-garden-gives-billie-joel-custom-triumph-motorcycle-as-gift-for-final-historic-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The New York Post<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> reports that MSG gifted Joel a \u201978 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, decorated with piano keys, Joel\u2019s signature and the MSG logo. To compliment it, Joel, a motorcycle fan, also got a helmet decorated with the list of\u00a0all the dates he played at the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joel wrapped his residency on July 25 after 104 residency shows and 150 total shows at the venue. During the\u00a0concert he brought out\u00a0<strong>Guns N&#8217; Roses<\/strong>&#8216; frontman\u00a0<strong>Axl Rose<\/strong> for two songs, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>&#8216;s James Bond theme &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221; and <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Highway to Hell.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Comedian <strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> was also on hand to help raise a banner in Joel\u2019s honor, and\u00a0Joel&#8217;s\u00a0two youngest daughters,\u00a0<strong>Della<\/strong>, who&#8217;ll be 9 in August, and <strong>Remy<\/strong>, 6, also made an appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kempin\/Getty Images Billy Joel\u00a0has wrapped his Madison Square Garden residency, and to celebrate the momentous occasion the venue gave the rocker a very special gift. The New York Post reports that MSG gifted Joel a \u201978 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, decorated with piano keys, Joel\u2019s signature and the MSG logo.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madison-square-garden-gifts-billy-joel-a-custom-motorcycle-to-mark-end-of-residency\/\">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":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019"}],"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=30019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}