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Article: BILLY JOEL, NOV. 26, TACO BELL ARENA
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- Boise Weekly
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- November 28, 2007
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BILLY JOEL, NOV. 26, TACO BELL ARENA
As the piano rose from the floor in the center of the Taco Bell Arena stage, the thousands of fans started to scream Billy Joel's name-and one woman sitting near us in a not-cheap-not-VIP-but-excellent-seats section kept yelling, "Billy," "Billy," "Billy" until the end of the concert. When he started the show with a somewhat hoarse but rocking rendition of "Angry Young Man," the middle-agers around us beamed as bright as the spotlights on Joel's nearly-60-year-old pate.
After playing "My Life" (with an interesting "Jingle Bells" introduction), he paused and said to the audience, "I'm Billy Joel's dad. Billy's never been to Idaho before, but he'll ...