{"id":118041,"date":"2024-07-12T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/12\/billy-joel-says-there-are-plenty-of-nyc-dates-being-lined-up-despite-end-of-msg-residency\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T21:02:24","slug":"billy-joel-says-there-are-plenty-of-nyc-dates-being-lined-up-despite-end-of-msg-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/12\/billy-joel-says-there-are-plenty-of-nyc-dates-being-lined-up-despite-end-of-msg-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel says there are &#8220;plenty&#8221; of NYC dates being lined up despite end of MSG residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-12\/Getty_BillyJoelMSG_030323.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t get to see <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong> perform his ongoing residency at Madison Square Garden before he calls it quits, don&#8217;t worry \u2014 the Piano Man will still be in a &#8220;New York State of Mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/billy-joel-on-why-he-keeps-performing-that-s-what-i-do-214745157797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preview<\/a> of an interview with <strong>Willie Geist<\/strong> that will air on NBC&#8217;s<em> Sunday TODAY,<\/em> Billy says that during the decade that he&#8217;s been doing his residency, there was an &#8220;exclusivity aspect&#8221; of the deal that prevented him from playing other New York-area venues. But now, he says, &#8220;We can play stadiums. Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium, Citi Field, where the Mets play, so there\u2019s plenty of that lined up. I\u2019m not going to stop doing shows. That\u2019s what I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class>&#8220;We have a whole schedule laid out into 2025, where we\u2019re going to be playing,&#8221; he continues.<\/p>\n<p class>And he&#8217;s not even considering retiring, he says. &#8220;I\u2019m not going to stop doing shows. That\u2019s what I do. What else am I going to do? Stop doing shows and sit around, and watch TV, and turn into a vegetable? No. I don\u2019t want to do that,&#8221; he notes.<\/p>\n<p class>Billy also says he&#8217;s happy that his audiences are filled with younger people, and not just people who&#8217;ve been around since he started his career 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class>&#8220;Yeah, and we\u2019re getting all different age demographics. I\u2019m seeing a lot of younger people in our shows. It\u2019s like they\u2019re coming to see the antique,&#8221; he laughs. &#8220;That\u2019s all that I can do. But it helps having new audiences come in all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class>The final show of Billy&#8217;s MSG residency will take place on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images Even if you don&#8217;t get to see Billy Joel perform his ongoing residency at Madison Square Garden before he calls it quits, don&#8217;t worry \u2014 the Piano Man will still be in a &#8220;New York State of Mind.&#8221; In a preview of an interview with Willie Geist<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/12\/billy-joel-says-there-are-plenty-of-nyc-dates-being-lined-up-despite-end-of-msg-residency\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}