Billy Joel, has always been a part of "My Life"(pardon the pun). He'd be there on my radio, cd player and lately my Ipod. I have super memories of many happy hours spent in pubs singing along to his songs when I should have been studying or at lectures. Last Thursday, all those memories came flooding back, when I, together with 16 000 other pub crawlers, from the Eighties, saw him live for the first time ever in South Africa. He is the first artist not to gush about how great South Africa is and how wonderful it was to be here - instead he told us how great he is. We lapped it up! And he was fantastic. As you can see from my pics some of the fans dressed the part. Piano Man and Uptown Girl, along with 8 of their pals travelled all the way from Pietermartizburg to see this show and I'm sure they weren't disappointed. For a sixtysomething, he rocked the house. Performed most of his big hits, My Life, Innocent Man, New York State of Mind, Anthony's Song, You May Be Right and a whole lot more. Something for everybody. He played a grand piano which rotated on the stage between songs, so that his back wasn't to the same side of the audience for the duration of the show. A camera was placed on the end of the piano keyboard, showing his fingering which they projected onto the big screens. Posted a pic, crappy quality I know, but it gives you the idea. Gosh he can play the piano! The highlight of the show was when he picked up the electric guitar, asked his guitar technician to sing and together they belted out Highway to Hell by AC/DC. BJ broke it down on that guitar - now that impressed me! Another highlight was his delivery of Innocent Man. He stood alone in front of the piano arms raised clicking his fingers - a beautiful motion. He closed the show with Piano Man - best sing a long ever. Ahhhhhhhh. It was great. I left the show with a lot of joy in my heart and a slightly hoarse voice.