“Miami 2017” by Billy Joel

"Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" closed Billy Joel's 1976 album Turnstiles, and it has lived an even bigger life on stage than on record. Joel wrote it, sings it and plays the piano, and he has put out several live versions over the years, often reworking the words on the night, as he did on Live at Shea.

It has turned into his song for hard times. He played it at The Concert for New York City after the September 11 attacks in 2001, and again in 2012 for victims of Hurricane Sandy, both on the Coming Together TV special and at 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief. And on New Year's Eve 2016, playing just north of Miami, he rang in midnight with "Auld Lang Syne" and went straight into this one.

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