I can't listen to this song without thinking that the lyrics about lighting the audience are missing, as well as the sound of breaking musical equipment.
@@andrewm3210 tbf they went home more happy according to mr Joel he really did get pissed when he flipped over his piano but he noticed that the crowd loved it so he just beat the shit outta his microphone and the crowd loved it
Trivia: The Genius Annotations of Sometimes a Fantasy during the 2nd verse of the song is literally the transcript of Billy Joel's freak out during the July 27 1987 Moscow performance.
It's as if the whole band have said "Screw this, the wall has just come down, let's just goof off"...And in doing so, played the best they ever have or ever will.
All I can hear in my head when I see this is “STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE!!!” (Who else?) What I’m most impressed with (besides him destroying a huge keyboard and a microphone stand) is that he slipped a song that was blatantly about phone sex directly under the nose of the stodgy Soviet government big shots. THAT is still pretty fucking iconic!
At the end of performing the longest time on this tour, some guy jumps onto the stage and starts speaking to him in Russian. He doesn't understand what he's saying, and just replies with "Whatever you say, babe!" So funny! ruclips.net/video/cSHbc7xFHMM/видео.html
Such a great song with such a simple chord progression (it goes Root - IV of each .. basically A D...A D... E A... E A... D G... D..G... ..[then in the prechorus] G F# Em..C G (walkup to a Bm .. chorus goes D A Bm7 then Gmaj7 A Bm7 alterating] in case anyone's curious about the chord progression in general, I'm probably off on some things) .. better than most if not all 'punk' or punk like songs I know.
Sometimes a Fantasy Billy Joel Produced by Phil Ramone Album Glass Houses [Verse 1] Oh, I didn't want to do it, but I got too lonely Mmm, I had to call you up in the middle of the night I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance (ah, ah, ah) But I really needed stimulation Though it was only my imagination [Chorus] It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing Sometimes a fantasy Is all you need, oh [Verse 2] When am I gonna take control, get ahold of my emotions? Why does it only seem to hit me in the middle of the night? You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance (ah, ah, ah) I don't want to deal with outside action Only you can give me satisfaction [Verse 3] Oh, sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me Be better baby, but believe me, it's the next best thing I'm sure there's many times you've wanted me to hear your secrets Don't be afraid to say the words that'll move me Anytime you want to tell them to me I've got blisters on my blisters!
A lot of bands in the 80's used that same piano Yamaha CP-80. It produced some great sounds. Billy Joel, The Go-Go's , Fine Young Canibals to name just a few.
I’ve seen the “freak out” performance so many times, it’s weird to see an alternate take of him playing it straight. My brain keeps filling in the exact parts where he screams about the lights or slams the mic stand.
"Sometimes A Fantasy" I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely I had to call you up in the middle of the night I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance But I really needed stimulation Though it was only my imagination It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing But sometimes a fantasy Is all you need When am I gonna take control get a hold of my emotions Why does it only seem to hit me in the middle of the night You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance I don't want to deal with outside action Only you can give me satisfaction It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing But sometimes a fantasy Is all you need Sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me Be better baby but believe me it's the next best thing I'm sure there's many times you've wanted me to hear your secrets Don't be afraid to say the words that move me Anytime you want to tell them to me It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing But sometimes a fantasy Is all you need It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing It's just a fantasy It's not the real thing
Billy Joel wasn`t certainly the first American performer in SU, he wasn`t even "one of the first" and he did not make history (Ok, he made history with the mad onstage behaviour maybe). For example John Denver made a mini-tour in SU already in 1985. Jazz and classical performers were common in SU decades before. Rock musicians not very much because they asked a way too much money.
margus kiis and I'm sure the John Denver concerts were similar to this one. The point rock music was considered rebellious and therefore not allowed. After Gorbachev instilled glasnost they invited him out. Billy does get credit for being the first to bring American rock music to the SU on this scale as it was performed in the US
KGB was bored with ideological "antisoviets" not some young pop fans. I think the american roadie could not catch the guy because he was away too fat to get slim russian who jumped back into crowd after fixed to history for a second.
STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE
HAHA! Let me do my show!!!
"Let me do my show for christsakes!!"
LEGEND
I didn't throw a tantrum...I threw a piano!!!
Isn’t this just the 2nd take of that bs?
I can't listen to this song without thinking that the lyrics about lighting the audience are missing, as well as the sound of breaking musical equipment.
This must’ve been the first night haha
LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRIST SAKE
@@mortalens what show is that lighting the audience part on ???
@@anthonymatis2977 Same show, second night I believe
@@anthonymatis2977 ruclips.net/video/Jl3E-cwA6y8/видео.html
THANKS FOR NOT LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE
THANKS FOR LETTING ME DO MY PERFORMANCE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
In this alternate universe, Billy Joel got to finish his song without incident and everyone went home happy.
@@andrewm3210 tbf they went home more happy according to mr Joel he really did get pissed when he flipped over his piano but he noticed that the crowd loved it so he just beat the shit outta his microphone and the crowd loved it
*STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE*
*STOP IT*
*LEMME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRISTS SAKE!*
*(Knocks over piano)*
*(starts slamming microphone on stage)*
Wasn't expecting it xD
That wasnt on this video
@@TheAirConditionerGuy Search: Billy Joel Politely Asks For Concert Lights To Be Turned Off Then Doesn't Throw His Piano Over In A Rage
LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRISTSAKES! Amen Billy. A great energetic song. This song is always a crowd favorite!
that change of the drums at 2:16 is so satisfying, holy crap, that caught me off guard
Absolutely love that bit
What
It's just a fantasy ✨️ 🎶 Turtshelll
Yeah damn that was sick! It’s stuff like that that takes a song to another level
Liberty DeVito is such a MONSTER Musician, wish I could see him play live again.
Totally, he just released a book, it should be at my doorstep in a few days, I was lucky and got one of the autographed copes.
If The Lords or The Slim Kings play near you, you’ll see him still killing it…watch for dates near you.
A through and through New Yawkah! From Da Bronx!! Thank you Billy. 🎵
It’s amazing how professional he is with his vocals! He gives 100% even though he looks hot and exhausted!
Rehearsed
LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
In which alternate universe did this show exist where for christs sake they let him do his show and where his piano stayed upright??
The one where there were several shows on this tour. 🙃
If music brings us all together then so be it. Billy Joel is a big part of our music history. Rock on brothers.
This sounds even better than the original imho. Great concert too.
Trivia:
The Genius Annotations of Sometimes a Fantasy during the 2nd verse of the song is literally the transcript of Billy Joel's freak out during the July 27 1987 Moscow performance.
You're right, indeed.
The annotation even features pictures from the performance if that's not enough...
*"STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE!!!"* 1:06
"Stop it!" 1:13
*"LET ME DO MY SHOW, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!"* 1:17
LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!
Bahahahahhahahaha awesome
Pretty high resolution for 1987
It was shot on film, which is much higher quality than the videotape that was typically used at the time.
Sebi's Random Tech makes sense
@@SebisRandomTech Ohhhh. That's used for movies! WOW! That explains why the video quality is superb! This is must be a special concert!
@@emancaindec9731 Do you not know what made this special?
It's as if the whole band have said "Screw this, the wall has just come down, let's just goof off"...And in doing so, played the best they ever have or ever will.
Wall was still up in '87 tho.
The Berlin didn’t come down for another two years. The Soviet Union fell four years after this concert.
Ouch. The wall came down in '89 lol FAIL
"IIIIIIIIIIII'm sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me..." *BASH* 😂
All I can hear in my head when I see this is “STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE!!!” (Who else?) What I’m most impressed with (besides him destroying a huge keyboard and a microphone stand) is that he slipped a song that was blatantly about phone sex directly under the nose of the stodgy Soviet government big shots. THAT is still pretty fucking iconic!
he didn't throw a tantrum, he threw a piano!
No ones gonna mention how fucking gnarly that ending guitar solo was?
It's incendiary.
1:44 who was that who pet billy's head? Was he like "Oh his hair looks soft I must rub it" because it looks like he was getting chased afterwards
A fan
At the end of performing the longest time on this tour, some guy jumps onto the stage and starts speaking to him in Russian. He doesn't understand what he's saying, and just replies with "Whatever you say, babe!"
So funny! ruclips.net/video/cSHbc7xFHMM/видео.html
Like I'm to young for this, but I just can't help to adore his music and him. I just hope he could come to my country for one last concert.
Same.
Come to Long Island he plays here every year!!!
you're never too young, kid.
Billy Joel is quite the deal
Billy is a genius
I love this song and your performance
Thank you Mr. Joel!
Such a great song with such a simple chord progression (it goes Root - IV of each .. basically A D...A D... E A... E A... D G... D..G... ..[then in the prechorus] G F# Em..C G (walkup to a Bm .. chorus goes D A Bm7 then Gmaj7 A Bm7 alterating] in case anyone's curious about the chord progression in general, I'm probably off on some things) .. better than most if not all 'punk' or punk like songs I know.
Sometimes a Fantasy
Billy Joel
Produced by Phil Ramone
Album Glass Houses
[Verse 1]
Oh, I didn't want to do it, but I got too lonely
Mmm, I had to call you up in the middle of the night
I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance (ah, ah, ah)
But I really needed stimulation
Though it was only my imagination
[Chorus]
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
Sometimes a fantasy
Is all you need, oh
[Verse 2]
When am I gonna take control, get ahold of my emotions?
Why does it only seem to hit me in the middle of the night?
You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance (ah, ah, ah)
I don't want to deal with outside action
Only you can give me satisfaction
[Verse 3]
Oh, sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me
Be better baby, but believe me, it's the next best thing
I'm sure there's many times you've wanted me to hear your secrets
Don't be afraid to say the words that'll move me
Anytime you want to tell them to me
I've got blisters on my blisters!
A lot of bands in the 80's used that same piano Yamaha CP-80. It produced some great sounds. Billy Joel, The Go-Go's , Fine Young Canibals to name just a few.
1:41 Anyone else wish that instrumental would just last for hours? lol
From New York to The Kremlin.....Not bad for a guy from Nassau County on Long Island.....not too bad at all.....
My ex-girlfriend and I would...well...anyways. Good song, great memories
this song is perfect for this comment, what are you talking about?
amazing!
Thankxxx ..merciii🌈🌈🌈🌈👍👍👍👍
Обалдеть! Bringing everything! Thank you, mr.Joel, for your love, energy and devotion!
This is one Great Song and performance.
LET ME DO MY SHOW FOR CHRIST SAKES!
Where's him going crazy and saying "STOP LIGHTING THE AUDIENCE"
I KNOW! They should've showed that! Where the hell is it?
It was another show.
that sucks. i wanted to see him go frickin insane.
STOP IT......LET ME DO MY SHOW, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!!!!
GuitarGuy 1991 Its in the documentary
Billy was high doing this song. Great song and he sounds like he's in the studio
1:51 sounds exactly like Freddy Mercury
Listen to you can make me free by billy Joel that’ll really wow you
Nah.
@@marlonrando9272 LOL ok
Was just thinking of that lmao
I would do anything to have a drummer like liberty. wow.
3:08... does anyone actually hear any piano?...
I don’t hear it either. It’s almost as though he’s just pretending to play it for show.
and sometimes all you need is the real thang...love this!
Rehearsed step by step on November 28th, 1986 on Vancouver.
世界はすごいなぁ😊🌹BillieJoelleさん素晴らしいなぁ🎉
Extraordinaria canción de los 80's.
BRAZIL LOVES YOU, COME HERE!
Magnata Come to Brazil
Gubagao
one of his best real rockin songs
I feel like too little people noticed that the belt at 1:52 sounds exactly like Mercury
I’ve seen the “freak out” performance so many times, it’s weird to see an alternate take of him playing it straight. My brain keeps filling in the exact parts where he screams about the lights or slams the mic stand.
Liberty!!!
He’s surprisingly flexible
Fantastic VIBRANTE
Is This The Remastered Version From 1987
*37 Years Ago*
1:07 Billy:Stop Lighting The Audience!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
0:31 is that Christie Brinkley with the video camera?
Lmao this is the song where he flips out hahahahahhaha
I want to go to one of his concerts in MSG, but their sold out for a while...
We only play 80s Joel songs, sir
Liberty DeVitto is awesome
Poor guy! He’s barely keeping his eyes open
Billy Rock Piano MAN Joel
My dog can't even pant like this 1:19
Where is the part when he yells at the lighting crew, flips the piano over and destroy the microphone?
Different show, he played 6 shows in the Solviet Union.
Do it Billy. We all are music buffs all over the world and with our Russian brothers.
Bill Joel was the off tank and was tryin to pull Aggro.
Funny, Christie Brinkley @0.36
still listening 2059
It's time for real thing"
The reason he was so upset is they were using flamethrowers on the audience. "Stop lighting the audience!"
Before he flipped that Yamaha over, I wish he’d have mailed it to me instead. I’d still have it.
1:01
Billy Joel is god 👍
Not bad. He had some band backing him up
stop it
Where's his meltdown
"The other version" is, for example, here: ruclips.net/video/PqY6mXULzpw/видео.html
♪ ♥
Where's the damn meltdown.
ruclips.net/video/PqY6mXULzpw/видео.html
"Sometimes A Fantasy"
I didn't want to do it but I got too lonely
I had to call you up in the middle of the night
I know it's awful hard to try to make love long distance
But I really needed stimulation
Though it was only my imagination
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
But sometimes a fantasy
Is all you need
When am I gonna take control get a hold of my emotions
Why does it only seem to hit me in the middle of the night
You told me there's a number I can always dial for assistance
I don't want to deal with outside action
Only you can give me satisfaction
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
But sometimes a fantasy
Is all you need
Sure it would be better if I had you here to hold me
Be better baby but believe me it's the next best thing
I'm sure there's many times you've wanted me to hear your secrets
Don't be afraid to say the words that move me
Anytime you want to tell them to me
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
But sometimes a fantasy
Is all you need
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
It's just a fantasy
It's not the real thing
Wheres stop lighting the audience?!
1987
billy,please turn over keybored and
beat mikestand😁
wait a minute... That's just the improved version of the performance.
STOP IT!
*throws piano*
You guys talk about him playing that yamaha in this take he isn't actually playing it as he destroyed it in the first take
He looks fucking exhausted
What year is this concert?
Check the title
+Count Mustard lol
Yesteryear.
1:44 :I
The boy thought Joel is Morrisey I think.
Billy Joel wasn`t certainly the first American performer in SU, he wasn`t even "one of the first" and he did not make history (Ok, he made history with the mad onstage behaviour maybe). For example John Denver made a mini-tour in SU already in 1985. Jazz and classical performers were common in SU decades before. Rock musicians not very much because they asked a way too much money.
margus kiis and I'm sure the John Denver concerts were similar to this one. The point rock music was considered rebellious and therefore not allowed. After Gorbachev instilled glasnost they invited him out. Billy does get credit for being the first to bring American rock music to the SU on this scale as it was performed in the US
margus kiis He was the first American rock musician to put on a fully-staged your in the Soviet Union.
What's up with the guy in the suit 1:57
Simple... KGB
Someone should shine a light on that guy...
in russhia
1:06 wtf?? what is that? 😂😂
"STOP IT"
I just realized he has tiny feet
Sometimes a fantasy? Could he be singing about masturbation AKA manual hand release?
For a wimp hes out of his mind
why is that dude PETTING Billy at 1:44 ?
Melissa Jackowski hahaha it was a fan who jumped on stage
It was me if I ever saw him again
The KGB took care of him....he was never seen again.
KGB was bored with ideological "antisoviets" not some young pop fans. I think the american roadie could not catch the guy because he was away too fat to get slim russian who jumped back into crowd after fixed to history for a second.
Billy kind of ignored it though XD
STOP IT!!!!!