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Performing at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday March 26, 2005 at 8:00PM. Doors open at 7:00PM.
Pianist Billy Joel emerged as one of the most popular Singer/Songwriters of the late '70s and '80s with multi-platinum albums and hit singles. His 4th album "The Stranger" released in 1977 went platinum and catapulted him into super-stardom. His Top 40 singles "Just the Way You Are" won the Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 1979 Grammys. Over the next two decades, the album would sell over seven million copies. Singles "My Life," "Big Shot," and "Honesty," won the Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1980. "Innocent Man" restored Joel to his multi-platinum selling over five million copies and spawning the hit singles "Uptown Girl". In 1990 through 1991, Joel undertook a major U.S. tour. At the end of the year, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honored Billy Joel with a Grammy Living Legend award. In 1991, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Fairfield University in Connecticut. In 1996, he gave a series of lectures at a variety of American colleges. He performed at the 1999 New Year's Eve Party in Times Square, and 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert, a live album of this concert was released by in 2001. He made a surpise appearance in Donald Trumps reality tv series The Apprentice second season. |
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