See Billy Joel in Concert

“Joel leads out some Vietnam Veterans on to the stage, who join arms and sing the chorus ("...we’d all go down together"). The crowd gives them a standing ovation. There are chills moments, and there are chills moments, and this is definitely the latter. I’m choking up… it’s beautiful.”

“The set began, as was appropriate, in the late seventies, with Billy banging out the feisty verses of “Big Shot” on his trademark Steinway Grand, though it wasn’t until I found myself lip-synching the words to bass-driven coming-of-age story-poem “My Life” that I experienced my first of what would be several spontaneous spikes in emotion.”