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What year was Billy Joel at Shea? ›

Joel became the final artist to perform at the legendary Shea Stadium. He performed to 110,000 people at the historic The Last Play at Shea concert on July 16 and 18, 2008. The shows sold out in a record-breaking 45 minutes.

Here's all we know about the five-time Grammy winner's net worth. After a whopping 60 years of releasing hits such as "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me," "You May Be Right," "Vienna," "Piano Man," "Just The Way You Are," and many, many more, Billy has garnered a reported net worth of $250 million.

Billy Joel and Paul McCartney perform at Shea Stadium, July 18, 2008 📸: Myrna Suárez | Facebook.

Grab a front-row seat for this historic 2008 concert, which took place on July 16 and 18 before a combined 110,000 fans. Joining Billy Joel for a last play at Shea is an all-star musical team, including Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, John Mayer and Garth Brooks.

Born on May 9, 1949, in New York, Billy Joel bounced back after a disappointing first album, Cold Spring Harbor (1971), with 1973's Piano Man, featuring hits like "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack." He went on to make successful albums like Streetlife Serenade (1974), The Stranger (1977) and 52nd Street (1978).

In 1970 After parting ways with The Hassles Joel and Hassles Drummer Jon Small Formed a two-man duo Attila. In 1971 his solo debut, Cold Spring Harbor, was released. (The title takes its name from a town in Long Island.) He is a Democrat.

'Piano Man'

This was Billy Joel's first single and it's still his greatest. It has since become Billy Joel's signature song, and is based on his time playing piano at the Executive Room bar in Los Angeles, and all the familiar faces he saw there, except he was calling himself Bill Martin at the time.

Among his many other awards and honors, Billy Joel has been given a Doctor of Humane Letters from Fairfield University (1991), a Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music (1993), and a Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hofstra University (1997) and a Doctor of Music from Southampton College.

Held at London's Royal Albert Hall, the momentous evening featured George's songs, and music he loved, performed by artists including Eric Clapton, Joe Brown, Dhani Harrison, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Monty Python, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Ringo Starr and more.

Did Paul McCartney tour with Billy Joel? ›

The stars aligned for Paul McCartney 15 years ago this Tuesday, July 18th, 2008, when he joined Billy Joel on stage for the final concert at New York's Shea Stadium. McCartney, as a member of The Beatles, played the first concert ever held at Shea, home of baseball's New York Mets, on August 15th, 1965.

Billy Joel performed the final concert at New York's historic Shea Stadium ahead of its demolition.

Billy Joel concerts typically have a relaxed, casual vibe, so you can feel free to wear jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers.

A Billy Joel concert tour performance can last up to three hours. Expect up to 20 songs during the show, plus at least one encore.

Billy Joel rakes in an enormous amount of cash from his concerts. When his Madison Square Garden residency began in 2014, he reportedly earned about $2 million per show. In the years since, that figure has climbed to about $3 million per show, thanks in part to the dynamic pricing system now used by Ticketmaster.

Billy Joel played piano on The Shangri-Las' 1965 hit, "Leader of the Pack". He was 16 years old at the time.

Joel signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles, California; he lived there for the next three years.

Rocker Billy Joel married supermodel Christie Brinkley on a yacht in New York's Hudson River. The two stars met in 1983 in St. Barts, and Brinkley later appeared in Joel's video for “Uptown Girl” before they eventually wed. They welcomed their first and only child together, Alexa Ray, that December.

The ceremony ended with Tom Seaver throwing a final pitch to Mike Piazza; then, as the Beatles' "In My Life" played on the stadium speakers, the two former Met stars walked out of the centerfield gate and closed it behind them, followed by a display of blue and orange fireworks.