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i'm holding out for a good charlotte print

Sony Finds A Use For All Those Old Photos In The Basement

Sony has belatedly realized that Columbia Records' photo archive could be used for more than just box set filler. The monolith, which is suffering from "hard times," has founded Icon Collectibles, which is selling a 11"x12" photo of Johnny Cash for $300. "His eyes shine with the light of deep secret knowledge and the gravitas of an artist who's born to carry the truth in his music." For that much money, they damn well better! Lovely one-to-two feet long photos of Billy Joel, Johnny Mathis, Muhammad Ali (who did a spoken-word album for Columbia — score, Sony!), Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Gould, Bob Dylan, and several others are also available to those with a grand to kill. More »

3:30 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by Captain Wrong: I think this would have been a better album cover to accompany this one: [ecx.images-amazon.com] more »

single spin

Single Spinning Crackling Finns, Acidic Brooklynites, And Billy Joel (Sorta)

Whether they're petroleum-based or digital downloads, singles remain pop's most fascinating format. Twice a week in Single Spin, a singles-focused twist on Second Spin, we'll take a look at a song, sound, scene, or star that we think deserves more than two lines and a Rapidshare link—whether it's CMT country, underground dance, unfriendly noise, or anything else served up one tune at a time. Today we listen to a return to form from a Finnish dub-techno master, a goofy jam from a trio of sloppy New York indie kids, and faux-reggae scourge Sean Kingston warbling through the Billy Joel songbook. Yes, you read that right. More »

1:00 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Jess Harvell
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Latest by n/a: My soul is crying...I feel the need to dropkick a third grader. I wouldn't call myself Billy Joel's biggest fan (I like him...just not THAT much), but that's just WRONG. Dear Sean Kingston, Stop stealing otherwise great songs and damning them to more »

As predicted in this space, Billy Joel has added a second "last show" at Shea Stadium after his first one sold out faster than you can say "you had to be a big shot, didn't cha?" (Well, OK, it was 48 minutes, but don't tell that to the fans who were hung up on the throttling-like-mad ticketing site.) [Brooklyn Vegan]

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fools and their money

Billy Joel's Shea Stadium Ticketing Snafu May Make Him The New Hannah Montana

Billy Joel's July concert at Shea Stadium—the final musical event at the crumbling concrete behemoth—sold out in one hour on Saturday morning, although the ticketing system used to handle the show's ticket sales was apparently experiencing massive gridlock. (Shea's overlords eschewed Ticketmaster for in-house site 507tixx.com, which is named after the Mets' ticketing hotline.) As you might expect, the "secondary market" for these tickets is thriving, despite the tech snafus and speedy sellout; at present, there are 441 listings for tickets on the semi-legitimate scalping site StubHub, with the highest single-seat price $99,215. That total is up from the 209 sets of tickets on sale Thursday, when Mets season-ticket holders were allowed to buy tickets early. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Chris Molanphy: The real outrage is this Bronx-lover playing Shea at all. (Sorry, M -- you showed such restraint through that whole post, I felt obligated...) more »

upcoming shows

Billy Joel To Play Shea Stadium, Inspire Many "Yankees Suck" Chants

Those Billy Joel concerts at Shea Stadium, which is closing its ugly-ass doors after the Mets close out the 2008 season*? They will not be the final events at the cement behemoth, a fact that should cause every Mets fan out there to sigh with relief because really having a Yankee fan play the last show at Shea would just be so. utterly. wrong. More »

9:45 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
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As rumored last week, the final events at New York's Shea Stadium will be a string of concerts by noted Yankees fan Billy Joel, which will take place on unspecified dates sometime following the Mets' 2008 playoff run. (Well, at least the news gave me an excuse to use this picture again. Go Comets!) [Newsday]

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A Billy Joel concert may serve as the closing event for New York City's Shea Stadium, which is shutting its ugly-ass gates after the 2008 season. Yes, that's right: A concert by a famed Yankees fan will allegedly serve as the final event at the Mets' longtime home. I can understand wanting to squeeze dollars out of the Billy Joel faithful who live east of the Queens border, but come on, guys. What's next, appointing Rudy Giuliani as special guest MC? [Bugs & Cranks, via Fark]

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battle of the so-called journalists

Billy Joel's Hamptons Show: A Flop Or A Celebrity-Subsidized Flop?

It's always fun when factions of Rupert Murdoch's empire go into battle over important issues—like the Social@Ross $15,000-a-five-pack concert series, which has had some deep discounts available lately. This weekend's headliner was Billy Joel, and according to yesterday's New York Post, ticket sales for the show were slow enough to give promoter Joe Meli a heart attack-ack-ack: More »

3:50 PM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By mjohnston
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We were trolling Craigslist for last-minute tickets to Billy Joel's Social@Ross show when we came across this, from a man who's offering up Billy Joel's piano from the "Nylon Curtain" tour for $125,000. Somehow, this guy is not a disgruntled former employee of the Hard Rock Cafe. [billyjoelspiano.com]

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liner notes

Piano Man To Perez Hilton: That's Quite The Glass House You're Living In

- If Billy Joel and his daughter can bring down Perez Hilton's shitshow, we will never, ever complain about any part of his catalog again—even "We Didn't Start The Fire." [Fresh Intelligence]
- Citing concerns about the Sirius-XM merger, car-sharing company Zipcar has decided to pull XM from its vehicles. Given that the merger is way off if it does happen, doesn't this excuse seem a little fishy? [FishbowlDC]
- R. Kelly has written an inspirational song for the Virginia Tech community, with all proceeds going to the school's memorial fund. No word on whether he's also planning to auction off his Star Wars-inspired shades. [BBC]

2:10 PM on Wed May 2 2007
By mjohnston
618 views, 9 comments

Latest by Diglett: I got that zipcar email yesterday and I didn't buy that explanation either (I'm a member even though I own a car because I have to get that IKEA furniture home somehow). more »

billy joel

Billy Joel Has Forgotten The Old Maxim About Glass Houses

Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the junket yesterday: More »
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Leak Of The Day: Billy Joel No Longer Goes To Extremes

Because we suspect that many of you have a long-kept-secret musical-theater background, we present you with "All My Life," Billy Joel's first proper pop song since 1993's River Of Dreams (or so we're told). What you need to know about the song: It "leaked" to Joelfan.com over the weekend; it comes with its own mixtape-like mid-song announcements, courtesy of DJ Red Alert some Joel fan; it sounds nothing like Jodeci. More »

1:12 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,003 views, 5 comments

new york post

When It Comes To Bad Taste, We Don't Know Why The "Post" Goes To Extremes

From America's Egregiously Erroneous Newspaper(TM) comes this classy little mention: More »