LA Times · Aug 6, 2015
For Billy Joel, it's 'Say Goodbye to Nassau'
Billy Joel performs during the final show at Nassau Coliseum on August 4, 2015 in Long Island, New York. (Kevin Mazur / Getty Images)In his 1973 single "You're My Home," Billy Joel warbled “I’ve never had a place that I could call my very own." You wouldn’t have known it from the way the crowd treated him at Long Island, New York’s Nassau Coliseum on Tuesday night.
In a concert turn that featured the energy of Joel’s music, the nostalgia of his lyrics and the cheese of his appeal, the musician played a sold-out show at the historic dilapidation that is the Coliseum, soon to be wrecking-balled and gut-renovated after 43 years on its parched suburban earth.