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Billy Joel Offers Live Debut Of 30-Year-Old ‘House Of Blue Light’

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Billy Joel returned to Madison Square Garden on Thursday to continue his ongoing monthly residency. The Long Island-based musician reached back into his catalog for a true rarity last night, as he offered up the live debut of “House Of Blue Light,” a song that dates back 30 years.

The tune was originally released on September 27, 1989, as the B-side to Joel’s 1989 mega-hit single “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” While it was left off Storm Front, which was released a few weeks later, it was included on Joel’s 2005 odds and sods compilation My Lives. The Piano Man introduced the song by saying, “This may lay like a lox. This was the flip side to ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire,’ but nobody knows this is a song, not even us. So let’s see if we can pull this off.” Watch Joel perform “House Of Blue Light” for the first time ever below as captured by Jim Powers:

Setlist

Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden

  • Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
  • Pressure
  • Everybody Loves You Now
  • Vienna  
  • The Entertainer
  • Sleeping With the Television On
  • Layla  
  • Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
  • Say Goodbye to Hollywood
  • Allentown
  • The Ballad of Billy the Kid
  • Don’t Ask Me Why
  • New York State of Mind
  • House of Blue Light
  • My Life  
  • She’s Always a Woman
  • Only The Good Die Young
  • The River of Dreams
  • Take It Easy  
  • Nessun dorma  
  • Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
  • Piano Man
Encore
  • We Didn’t Start the Fire
  • Uptown Girl
  • It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me
  • Big Shot
  • You May Be Right