{"id":804538,"date":"2020-02-24T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=957368"},"modified":"2020-02-24T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:23:13","slug":"watch-billy-joel-warn-would-be-robbers-not-to-hit-his-house-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-billy-joel-warn-would-be-robbers-not-to-hit-his-house-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Billy Joel Warn Would-Be Robbers Not to Hit His House Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BillyJoel-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-joel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-joel\" data-tag=\"billy-joel\">Billy Joel<\/a> took a little break from his Madison Square Garden show on Thursday night to speak about the robbery that hit his Long Island house the last time he played the New York arena. The robbers smashed a glass door leading into his garage and vandalized 12 of his motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast time I was here they hit my house,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cI guess everyone knows I\u2019m not home. I got dogs, lights, guns, everything at the house now. I\u2019m hoping they try it again. Come on, come one! Bring it on! Anyway, everyone is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then played three consecutive selections from <em>The Stranger<\/em> \u2014 \u201cVienna,\u201d the title track and \u201cMovin\u2019 Out (Anthony\u2019s Song)\u201d \u2014 before going off script again by breaking into a truncated rendition of \u201cBorn to Run\u201d that the MSG crowd greeted with shouts of \u201cBrooooce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, boo my ass,\u201d Joel joked. \u201cI know what they\u2019re saying! Duh! But it\u2019s the same thing: Bruce, Boo\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This led to another impromptu Springsteen cover from <em>Born to Run<\/em>: \u201cTenth Avenue Freeze-Out.\u201d This one lasted much longer because the horn section joined the fun.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2018, Springsteen joined Joel at his 100th MSG concert to perform both \u201cBorn to Run\u201d and \u201cTenth Avenue Freeze-Out.\u201d Both acts have been signed to Columbia since the early Seventies, and both were nearly dropped when their first few albums failed to connect with mass audiences. Their fortunes were forever changed when <em>The Stranger<\/em> and <em>Born to Run <\/em>exploded.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Joel performs next when his ongoing tour takes him to Mexico City on March 6th. He\u2019s going to spend the summer hitting stadiums across America, like Buffalo\u2019s New Era Field, Boston\u2019s Fenway Park and Cincinnati\u2019s Great American Ball Park. Just don\u2019t try to rob his house when he\u2019s playing any of these shows. As he said, he\u2019s got guns and dogs now. It wouldn\u2019t be smart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-billy-joel-warn-would-be-robbers-not-to-hit-his-house-again-957368\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel took a little break from his Madison Square Garden show on Thursday night to speak about the robbery that hit his Long Island house the last time he played the New York arena. The robbers smashed a glass door leading into his garage and vandalized 12 of his motorcycles. \u201cLast time I was [&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-804538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 21:33:22","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\/804538","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=804538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}