{"id":791440,"date":"2018-12-19T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770305"},"modified":"2018-12-19T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:50:02","slug":"billy-joels-garden-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/billy-joels-garden-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel\u2019s Garden Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/billy-joel.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>In the long history of rock acts playing arenas there\u2019s never been anything remotely like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-joel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-joel\" data-tag=\"billy-joel\">Billy Joel<\/a>\u2019s residency at Madison Square Garden. Every single month since January of 2014, he\u2019s headlined a sold-out show at the arena. At no point, have sales even tapered off a little bit even though the man hasn\u2019t released an album of new pop songs since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m having a lot of fun,\u201d Joel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pollstar.com\/article\/for-the-longest-time-billy-joel-dennis-arfas-record-setting-100th-madison-square-garden-performance-135883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recently told Pollstar.<\/a> \u201cPeople show up, we throw \u2018em on the stage. We change up the set list, dive into the obscurities. We do covers, we do silly stuff. We try to be as spontaneous as possible. If I start to get an idea for a song that I want to do at the moment, not even my song, we just go ahead and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 11th, Joel will celebrate the five year anniversary of the residency and play the 60th show since it all began. Just hours before he plays the final show of 2018, we\u2019ve taken a look at the stats up until this point and crunched the numbers on everything from the distance he travels every night to the arena to the number of bottles of Red Wine he\u2019s called out from the stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billy-joel-msg-madison-garden-residency-tickets-money-770305\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the long history of rock acts playing arenas there\u2019s never been anything remotely like Billy Joel\u2019s residency at Madison Square Garden. Every single month since January of 2014, he\u2019s headlined a sold-out show at the arena. At no point, have sales even tapered off a little bit even though the man hasn\u2019t released an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:29:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}