Piano Man
July 20, 2008 by David Bergman
This weekend I got to photograph the Billy Joel concert at Shea Stadium.
Besides shooting the show, highlights for me included seeing the back of Christie Brinkley‘s head and talking to a chef from the Food Network whose name I didn’t know.
I later found out it was Guy Fieri. I had no idea how popular those cooking shows are. He couldn’t go three feet without someone wanting to talk to him.
The first pop group to play a concert at a U.S. sports stadium was the Beatles at Shea in 1965. There have only been a handful of concerts in the stadium since then, but the list includes Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Not bad.
They’re tearing down the stadium at the end of the baseball season so this was billed as the “Last Play at Shea.” A documentary film should be in theaters by the end of 2009. Maybe they’ll feature Guy Fieri.
I love that Guy Fieri added Alaska and Hawaii to the list Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Not sure why he doesn’t visit Colorado as I don’t see it on the map. We went to Chicago over the New Years and visited all those places. Frosted Mug was closed and the Mac and Cheese at Dell Rheas Chicken Basket was extremely fattening and good!
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