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...Billy Joel...
When Billy Joel walked onto the stage of the Boston Garden to the accompaniment of dramatic musical fanfare, his audience knew a spectacle was in store for them. After all, not only was the entire concert to be filmed as part of a PBS concert series, but the video for Joel's latest single, "All About Soul," would be shot during his performance...
What the crowd perhaps did not expect was that Joel, better known for his mellow pop and light-FM station reputation, would maintain a high-energy, high-impact show. He jammed, he gyrated, he tapdanced, he even stomped on his piano. This Joel planned to have fun despite the hooplah, and he let the whole crowd in on the joke with...
...crowd's first clue to Joel's intent was the Piano Man's appearance on stage sans piano. Instead, he jammed on an electric guitar with his classic "A Matter of Trust" and immediately set the stage for the rest...
From there, he kept up the pace with songs from his new album and some of his more classic hits. Though the concert in many ways reflected the theme of his new work, "A River of Dreams"--preserving the classic Billy Joel sound within harder rock tunes--he surprisingly included only five of his new songs in the show...