This “Large Shot” is a bit smaller today.
Billy Joel confirmed as much as his first post-pandemic efficiency Nov. 5 at Madison Square Garden where he’s been in residence since 2014, about 50 kilos lighter.
Final month, the 72-year-old slimmed down “Piano Man” informed Howard Stern that his shrinking body was the unintentional results of again surgical procedure.
“I had again surgical procedure early this yr and the ache afterwards was so dangerous I misplaced my urge for food,” he told Stern.
“I embraced that, I mentioned, ‘Okay, I received’t eat as a lot’ and I ate much less and fewer and fewer and fewer after which there was simply life aggravation and that tends to, you already know, affect your urge for food too.”
The married father of three added, “I had gotten type of chunky. I used to be completely happy to lose the burden.”
And the burden loss appeared to have a optimistic affect on his stage presence.
As The Put up’s music critic Chuck Arnold reported of his Friday evening present, Joel “displayed extra vitality and endurance, bouncing across the stage to “We Didn’t Begin the Hearth,” “Uptown Woman” and “It’s Nonetheless Rock and Roll to Me” within the encore.”
