Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel kicked off their run of co-headlining dates with a efficiency at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles final night time.
Nicks opened the present with a 16-song set that included Fleetwood Mac classics “Desires,” “Sara” and “Rhiannon” together with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Price” and Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’.” She devoted her final music, “Landslide,” to late bandmate Christine McVie – it was the primary time she’d carried out since McVie died in November. As she sang, the stage screens confirmed footage of the ladies collectively through the years. Afterwards, struggling together with her feelings, Nicks informed the group: “We simply need to think about she’s nonetheless right here – that’s how I’m attempting to cope with it. Thanks for listening.”
Joel, who’d joined Nicks for a rendition of “Cease Draggin’ My Coronary heart Round” earlier than delivering his personal 21-song set that included a nod in the direction of his classical music curiosity with “Nessun Dorma.” Nicks returned to visitor on “And So It Goes.”
Full set lists for each performers and video clips from the present will be discovered under.
Regardless of each coming to prominence at comparable occasions, Joel and Nicks did not cross paths till later in life. “We met at a Fleetwood Mac gig in San Francisco most likely 10 years in the past,” Joel revealed throughout a current dialog with the Los Angeles Times. “I simply obtained to satisfy her backstage, however we’ve by no means labored collectively, though we each form of hit on the identical time. So this’ll be a very new factor for me.”
In that interview, Joel hinted he’d “most likely do considered one of her songs and he or she’ll most likely do considered one of mine.” Probed as as to whether he’d determined which Nicks music to cowl, the Piano Man responded: “That’s as much as her.”
The L.A. live performance was the primary of 9 dates the place the rock legends will share the stage. Along with the reveals alongside Joel, Nicks shall be doing a run of solo performances, starting March 15 in Seattle. In the meantime, the Piano Man will proceed his ongoing month-to-month gigs at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Watch Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel Carry out ‘Cease Draggin’ My Coronary heart Round’
Watch Stevie Nicks Carry out ‘Rhiannon’
Watch Stevie Nicks Dedicate ‘Landslide’ to Christine McVie
Watch Billy Joel Carry out ‘My Life’
Watch Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks Carry out ‘And So It Goes’
Watch Billy Joel Carry out ‘Uptown Lady’
Stevie Nicks at SoFi Stadium – Set Checklist
1. “Outdoors the Rain”
2. “Desires”
3. “If Anybody Falls”
4. “Cease Draggin’ My Coronary heart Round” (with Billy Joel)
5. “Fall From Grace”
6. ‘For What It’s Price”
7. `’Gypsy”
8. ‘Wild Coronary heart”
9. `’Bella Donna”
10. ‘Stand Again”
11. “Free Fallin’”
12. “Gold Mud Girl”
13. “Sara”
14. “Fringe of Seventeen”
15. “Rhiannon”
16. “Landslide”
Billy Joel at SoFi Stadium – Set Checklist
1. “My Life”
2. “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Track)”
3. “Vienna”
4. “Zanzibar”
5. “An Harmless Man”
6. “Do not Ask Me Why”
7. “Simply the Approach You Are”
8. “Allentown”
9. “And So It Goes” (with Stevie Nicks)
10. “Say Goodbye to Hollywood”
11. “Generally a Fantasy”
12. “Solely the Good Die Younger”
13. “The River of Desires”
14. “Nessun dorma” (Sung by Mike DelGudice)
15. “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”
16. “Piano Man”
17. ‘We Did not Begin the Fireplace”
18. “Uptown Lady”
19. “It’s Nonetheless Rock and Roll to Me”
20. “Huge Shot”
21. “You Might Be Proper”
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