“It looks like Billy Joel’s record-setting Madison Square Garden residency will go on for a while. Joel has said that he would continue the run as long as fans were interested. Well, on Friday, the overwhelming majority of more than 70,000 tickets to his monthly concert series at The Garden were sold as soon as they went on sale.” Read more here, and read a New Yorker profile here. Also, Billy Joel will be honored this week with the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and ASCAP’s first Centennial Award.
