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Billy Joel: Wembley Arena, London

Richard Williams, The Times, 7 June 1984

IT IS, OF course, too easy to say that once you've seen the video, the real thing can only be a disappointment. Indeed, there were moments last night when Billy Joel managed to expand his music into the extra dimension which makes the journey to a large-scale pop concert very occasionally worthwhile.

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