Billy Joel has adopted a new, extra eco-friendly method to commute to work in New York City: the Long Island Rail Road.
“I used to take a helicopter,” Joel informed Newsday in a latest interview, explaining that he is modified his thoughts on account of security causes. (In 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that Joel’s neighbors in Oyster Bay, New York had filed complaints that he was disrupting the neighborhood’s peace along with his aviation.)
But now, he says, it is the Long Island Rail Road that takes him straight into the coronary heart of New York City the place he is ending up the final dates of his Madison Square Garden residency.
“People will sometimes look at me on the railroad and think, look at this guy, trying to look like Billy Joel,” he continued. “He’s not kidding anybody. It’s still a great way to go.”
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Joel admitted that his personal employees have been cautious of the determination.
“‘You’ll get recognized, blah, blah, blah,’ I’m turning it into a big megillah,” Joel mentioned to Stephen Colbert earlier this yr. “For two and a half hours, you’re onstage, you’re Mussolini. They’re yelling your name, they’re clapping, they’re cheering, they’re loving. … Then you jump in a car and you drive into New York traffic and you’re just another schmuck in traffic. Wait a minute, I was just Mussolini, what happened to me? And some people can’t handle that transition.”
Joel is scheduled to play the final present of his residency on July 25.
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