{"id":104684,"date":"2026-01-03T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:10:10","slug":"billy-joel-surprises-fans-with-live-performance-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104684\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel surprises fans with live performance in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Billy Joel returned to performing live Friday night for the first time since he was diagnosed with the\u00a0brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus in May. Making a surprise appearance, the Piano Man sang\u00a0“We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “Big Shot”\u00a0at an event in\u00a0Wellington, Florida, celebrating\u00a0the village’s 30th anniversary, The Palm Beach Post reported. He was accompanied\u00a0 by the Turnstiles, a cover band that takes its name from Joel’s 1976\u00a0album<\/a> of the same name.\u00a0His young daughters, Della and Remy, danced along as he sang.<\/p>\n

He wore a winter jacket and a black cap and walked with the help of a cane, The Post reported. But his voice appeared\u00a0strong, according to a video posted from\u00a0the event<\/a>. “I wasn’t planning on working tonight,” Joel told the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show took place at the Wellington Amphitheater. Joel owns a\u00a0horse ranch in the village.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

\n\tAndy Edelstein, Newsday’s entertainment editor, supervises coverage of TV, celebrities, movies and pop music. He has written three books on popular culture, including “The Brady Bunch Book.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Joel returned to performing live Friday night for the first time since he was diagnosed with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20972,28,30,29,1407],"class_list":{"0":"post-104684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-billy-joel","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}