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.
Raised in nearby Hicksville and for decades a Long Island resident, Joel was selected to close the arena, home over the years to acts as varied as the Grateful Dead and Elvis Presley.