Billy Joel dug deep into his catalog Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden and played “Los Angelenos” for the first time since 1981.
Taylor Hill/Getty Imagesdeep into his catalog Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden and played “Los Angelenos” for the first time since 1981. “We never do this song,” he told the crowd. “We haven’t done this since the Eighties I think. We’ll give it a shot.” Here’s a fan-shot video of the performance.
Joel wrote “Los Angelenos” while living in Los Angeles in the early Seventies. He moved to the city after his debut LPsold poorly, and he famously found work at the Executive Room piano bar on Wilshire Boulevard. His experiences at the bar inspired “Piano Man,” and “Los Angelenos” takes a broader look at outsiders that move to the city. “Tanning out in the beaches,” he sings. “With their Mexican reefers/No one ever has to feel like a refugee.
In later years, Joel said that his early albums were uneven since he wasn’t allowed to record with his touring band. “They were all done mostly with session guys, and I didn’t like the way those records sounded,”
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