Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel kicked off their run of co-headlining dates with a efficiency at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles final night time.
Nicks opened the present with a 16-song set that included Fleetwood Mac classics “Dreams,” “Sara” and “Rhiannon” together with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’.” She devoted her final music, “Landslide,” to late bandmate Christine McVie – it was the primary time she’d carried out since McVie died in November. As she sang, the stage screens confirmed footage of the ladies collectively over time. Afterwards, struggling along with her feelings, Nicks instructed the group: “We just have to imagine she’s still here – that’s how I’m trying to deal with it. Thank you for listening.”
Joel, who’d joined Nicks for a rendition of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” earlier than delivering his personal 21-song set that included a nod in direction of his classical music curiosity with “Nessun Dorma.” Nicks returned to visitor on “And So It Goes.”
Full set lists for each performers and video clips from the present will be discovered beneath.
Despite each coming to prominence at comparable instances, Joel and Nicks did not cross paths till later in life. “We met at a Fleetwood Mac gig in San Francisco probably 10 years ago,” Joel revealed throughout a current dialog with the Los Angeles Times. “I just got to meet her backstage, but we’ve never worked together, even though we both kind of hit at the same time. So this’ll be a completely new thing for me.”
In that interview, Joel hinted he’d “probably do one of her songs and she’ll probably do one of mine.” Probed as as to if he’d determined which Nicks music to cowl, the Piano Man responded: “That’s up to her.”
The L.A. live performance was the primary of 9 dates the place the rock legends will share the stage. In addition to the reveals alongside Joel, Nicks will likely be doing a run of solo performances, starting March 15 in Seattle. Meanwhile, the Piano Man will proceed his ongoing month-to-month gigs at Madison Square Garden.
Watch Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel Perform ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’
Watch Stevie Nicks Perform ‘Rhiannon’
Watch Stevie Nicks Dedicate ‘Landslide’ to Christine McVie
Watch Billy Joel Perform ‘My Life’
Watch Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks Perform ‘And So It Goes’
Watch Billy Joel Perform ‘Uptown Girl’
Stevie Nicks at SoFi Stadium – Set List
1. “Outside the Rain”
2. “Dreams”
3. “If Anyone Falls”
4. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (with Billy Joel)
5. “Fall From Grace”
6. ‘For What It’s Worth”
7. `’Gypsy”
8. ‘Wild Heart”
9. `’Bella Donna”
10. ‘Stand Back”
11. “Free Fallin’”
12. “Gold Dust Woman”
13. “Sara”
14. “Edge of Seventeen”
15. “Rhiannon”
16. “Landslide”
Billy Joel at SoFi Stadium – Set List
1. “My Life”
2. “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)”
3. “Vienna”
4. “Zanzibar”
5. “An Innocent Man”
6. “Don’t Ask Me Why”
7. “Just the Way You Are”
8. “Allentown”
9. “And So It Goes” (with Stevie Nicks)
10. “Say Goodbye to Hollywood”
11. “Sometimes a Fantasy”
12. “Only the Good Die Young”
13. “The River of Dreams”
14. “Nessun dorma” (Sung by Mike DelGudice)
15. “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”
16. “Piano Man”
17. ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire”
18. “Uptown Girl”
19. “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”
20. “Big Shot”
21. “You May Be Right”
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It was a busy and thrilling 12 months for stay music.
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