Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down

podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. My goodness, am I excited to bring you my conversation

with one of the most, I don't know, famous people ever to record music, one of the most prolific people ever to record music, one of the best-selling

artists ever to record music.

He is the icon, Billy Joel.

I'm so excited to bring you this conversation because Billy doesn't do a ton of

interviews and really doesn't have new music out doesn't have a new album out he

just wanted to sit down and chat and I'm so grateful that he was up for doing it. He is ending now his

10-year residency at Madison Square Garden. It started in 2014. He's playing

his 104th show in that residency,

104 shows all sold out over 10 years.

In his lifetime, actually, it'll be 150 shows

at Madison Square Garden, which is the all-time record for any artist ever to play there.

Could sell out the place every night for the rest of his life, but figured 10 years was a good mark to move on.

Doesn't mean he won't be back to the guard it means this residency is over so

That gave us an occasion to get together and sit down and talk about his life and his career

I Can't begin to go through it all with you. You know it anyway.

1972 Captain Jack. 1973 album, Piano Man is really where it all started to change for him. That was a song. He had left New York.

Things weren't really working for him musically here. He moved to LA.

He was working on Wilshire Boulevard in just a piano bar and wrote and sang a song about what

he saw in there and it became piano man and the rest is history. He has sold a

hundred and sixty million albums putting him in a class with Elvis, Michael Jackson,

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