Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) (Official Audio)
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- In 1976, Billy Joel released his album titled Turnstiles. Listen to Billy Joel perform the track 'Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway'.
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Lyrics:
Seen the lights go out on broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the Palisades
They all bought Cadillacs
And left there long ago
They held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the island bridges blow
They turned our power down
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn't notice it
We'd seen it all the time on Forty-second Street
They burned the chuches up in Harlem
Like in the Spanish civil war
The flames were ev'rywhere
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before
Billy Joel's official RUclips channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty- three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.
Update: He has now turned the lights back on!
And on March 12, 2020, the lights really did go out.
did they go caput?
And 9-11-01
The lights went out in NYC in 1963, also, if I recall correctly.
Yep. Thank bloody China for that
Been teaching myself to play the piano for the last couple of years. Billy Joel's stuff is HARD. I mean, I knew he was a good songwriter before, but now I know why.
"If new york goes down I'm going down with it" Billy Joel
4:38 When I was a kid, I could listen to this part of the song again and again, wishing it would never end. Billy Joel even made such a boy in a Japanese rural town live a very happy life. Thanks!
Billy Joel penned this from the point of view of an old man who moved to Florida in 2017, after New York was destroyed in an apocalypse. Of course, the song took on a whole new meaning when New York was attacked in 2001, twenty-five years after Joel composed “Miami 2017” (1976). He considered this a science fiction piece, and never thought anything like September 11 would actually happen❕ 💚🗽💜
much is true today---people leaving NY in droves, mafia (drug cartels) took over Mexico
Craziest thing is I know a guy who moved from New York to Florida after 9/11.
I originally thought the song was about 9/11 until I found out when it was written.
@@awildjared1396 he performed it for some of the benefits for families of 9/11 that's probably why.
So much of this song came to pass… It’s almost prophetic.. Yet few songs rock like this one…
Turnstiles was the first Billy Joel album I bought many moons ago..I have all of them and at age 62 ,I might be getting older but his work never gets old...
I got stuck in city traffic yesterday after they had midtown blocked off for some parade. Took me an hour to cross the island from the Lincoln Tunnel to Midtown Tunnel. Really enjoying the "sank Manhattan out at sea" verse right now. 😂😡🤬🤬
I’m near Boston where traffic is hell too, I feel your pain
I've grown to really love the Turnstiles album.
And why not? Summer, Highland Falls, I've Loved These Days, Miami 2017, Say Goodbye to Hollywood and New York State of Mind all on one album. It's one of his best.
Great album!
Turnstiles is a fantastic album. The Stranger always gets all of the credit, but it was this album that really was his crowning achievement. Say Goodbye to Hollywood, Summer Highland Falls, New York State of Mind, James, I've Loved These Days, and this song. This album should be considered one of the greatest albums of all time.
The crem de la crem
@@joshuataylor6475Great album. My friend actually met James’ mother (she was her server) even though Billy claimed he never really existed. She talked about the two of them and whether it was real or not, it was a great heartfelt story and it sounded so true.
I remember musing how long off 2017 was, listening to this song when I was a smug, indestructible 17 year-old back in '76. Suffice it to say, it didn't take as long as I thought.
John Addeo 🙌
John Addeo Don't blink !
2001 was pretty bad, yeah. Still remember coming home from school to my mother crying. Love from the Windy City to the City That Never Sleeps
@Willie Gordon - The really sad part is, the song paints an almost happier picture of the world as it is today, only 3 more years into the future. Could Billy have seen President Trump and Florida Governor DeSantis coming??
Time goes by too quickly
My dad made this a staple in our home, me and my 5 brothers and sisters couldn't thank him enough.
Billy is one of the few musicians whose songs make me cry, this one of them.
2017 seemed like the distant future to a 16 year old kid in '76. I graduated high school in '78 and 40 years have flew by like yesterday. I am now almost 60 but still have that longing for good music to share with a good friend. I may have a few aches and pains but I still feel alive listening to this phenomenal album.
maybe his best
nope. His best
Also graduated HS in 1978...this album and song bring back the greatest memories of my life..I'm now 62 have seen Billy Joel over 10x..mostly @ MSG...he always gives his all..I will never tire of him and so many great bands of the late 60s and 70s...
Summer, Highland Falls is the best song ever written.
Stunning, it must have been stunning to see this kind of talent this young, what an album!
Billy Joel played this song at a 9/11 benefit on October 20th 2001 and he said Something along the lines of I wrote it as a science fiction song, but I didn’t think it would come true. But unlike in the end of that song we ain’t going anywhere
I used to play this over and over and over again and again back in the day. Here I am back again.
That intro never fails to be spine tingling.
I remember hearing this song on the radio when it first came out. I was in grad school, and had not listened to much pop during my four years of college in NYC. This song was about the increasing filth, degradation and self-destructiveness in NYC at the time (e.g., "the Bronx is burning"). And this is for you kids out there: I used to say, "Wow. In 2017, I'll be turning 65 that year and retiring ...." Now, looking back, I realize how lucky I was to have even lived this long.
Prove it
Tonton Macoute Prove what ? I am 63, i've seen NY's mighty skyline fall and bodies layed out on Broadway. I've seen 5 useless wars and I've seen the hookers dancing through Time Square. I am one of the few that remain to tell the world about how Trump sold us out and keep the memory alive ! But seriously; I have nothing left to prove and even if I did I wouldn't waste a second on you. Thanks for the memory Tonton !
As an old geezer from '52, I can agree with you.These songs still sound as fresh today as they were 40 years ago.And he's still playing to this day.
Dude I hope your still with us. Just turned 65 myself. Love this song!
@@berniemcfadden7760 Not dead yet.
He was off by a few years but this is pretty accurate of what is happening now
To be fair, that wasn’t exactly what he’s singing about. He’s referring to the 70s crisis in the song, but the 2017 refers to the year he’s in now, telling his grandchildren of what happened
Cringe
I was thinking the same thing
On 9-11 they went out for a few
@@tristanw4151
Actually, if you listen to his master class, Joel will tell you that it’s a fictional story set in 2017 in which an old man is talking about the apocalypse to his grandchildren. Billy mentions how he always wanted to be a science fiction writer and that this song was the closest he came to doing so You can even Google it if you don’t have Sirius XM Radio. Needless to say, it has nothing to do with the 70s. Nobody picked up the Yankees for free in the 70s.
When I came back to Israel, after a wonderful summer spent mostly in Long Island, I brought back with me only one album: "Turnstiles"... I still have it, I still play it on the old record player ...
the year was - of course - 1976 ...
Prove it
I'm 20 years old and for as long as I can remember I've always had a fascination with New York City. I recently found out about how rough the city was back in the 70s. I honestly couldn't believe what I heard. To think that the greatest city on Earth was reduced to a crime-ridden shithole that suffered financial problems. I've also been a Billy Joel fan for several years now, and I always took this song for granted. Never really payed much attention to the lyrics or what the song meant. But today I found out that the song was about the struggles of the city back in the 70s. Basically a fantasy retelling of what happened in those times by telling a post-apocalyptic story set in New York. And now that I've looked into the lyrics more as well, I will see this song in an entirely new light. Long live New York!✌️❤️🗽
Just wait, it's on track to return to it's '70s/'80s craptacular glory.
@@MrIkesimba how come?
@@aidanoneill3730 history repeats itself. I also love New York (and live here), and it is true, some of those things are happening here again. This song hits different. But long Iive New York🕊
NY was awesome back then. 70s 80s and 90s we all had so much fun ❤🎉
Yes the place was a real shithole back then but hey its like that again so you can relive it again......too bad as i lived through the 1970s was like Beirut and then in 2000s was like Disneyland---what comes around goes around
I started listening to Billy Joel like two years ago. When I first heard this song, I just thought it was a unique idea that was accompanied by pretty music. Now I'm working at a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the middle of both watching the world fall silent and witnessing several of the elderly residents I got to know succumb to the virus and pass on. Needless to say, this song hits different now.
I have one gripe with this. The world is not falling silent, by no means.
The pandemic is one beast in it of itself, but in 2020, politics reached a breaking point due to the election, riots wrought the streets of the world, most powers were brought to their knees, and global squabbles didn’t halt all while this went on (Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war among themselves over Nagorno-Karabakh again), and then in 2021, while the riots died down, COVID got worse, politics shifted from frustratingly hostile to frustratingly stupid, and global tensions worsened (WWIII scares in January, and the Taliban takeover in August).
I’d say that the world is not falling silent, but falling violently and loudly.
it wasnt a pandemic
@@donkeyparadise9276 PLANdemic with a 99.X survival rate
God Bless Caregivers!
@@ronnieballard7930 I with you on that!
Grew up on Long Island in the 60's thru 70's. Come on-it's Billy Joel : ) You really can't say enough about the man. Weirdly, I'm living in south Florida now. Very strange to hear" The Lights Go Out on Broadway"
"Corona-the world a mess. Aside from being unbelievably talented , the man was prophetic. Back then it sounded so futuristic. As I said: It's BillyJoel......soundtrack of the times, among others : )
His version of this on “Songs In The Attic” is a classic!!!!
His best song. Period...
This and Piano Man are the best pre Stranger songs by Billy Joel.
And “She’s got a way”
A fitting song for today,since its only two years away! (Hey! That rhymes!)
Billy Joel is indeed the man,and the consummate musician!
Here we are. ❤
Say Gershwin, say Kern, say Porter, say Wonder, say McCartney, say King, say Simon, say Lennon, say Bacharach, say Webb. Billy is up there with all of them.
Better, in my opinion!.
With all (wokeness-given) respect:
(Little) Stevie Wonder among all these giants...?
What did he write - ”I Just called to say I love you”?
Rgds from Germany
@@darkwingduck-cv7tx "I Just Called..." is an easy sing-along written for a movie and in my opinion a somewhat routine song. I would invite you to listen, among many others, to "Summer Soft" (or just about anything on the album "Songs in the Key of Life," which no less than Elton John has said he takes with him everywhere he goes. It's that good) or "Overjoyed," "Send One Your Love," "Too High," "All in Love is Fair," "Livin' for the City," or "These Three Words" to get a better feel for the range and depth of his songwriting.
@@mdelaubergine8930 I will listen to it. Thank you.
Rgds from Germany
Wow all the old guys in this comment section are actually cool. This song came out 26 years before I was born but Billy here hit the nail on the head
Seen the lights go out Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the Palisades
They all bought Cadillacs
And left there long ago
They held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the island bridges blow
They turned our power down
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn't notice it
We'd seen it all the time on Forty second street
They burned the churches down in Harlem
Like in that Spanish civil war
The flames were everywhere
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
And blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Thanks
I hope that this track will be a megachart within 2 years; 2017 deserves it, with or without crises.
Wow! Awesome piano intro, followed by masterful lyrics and orchestration! Of my favorites from Billy!!!
I love the simple plain piano intro and outro, with all the slamming banging music in the middle.
If (someone) from "The Boys" ever loses it, I hope Huey plays THIS song during all the chaos to lighten the mood a bit
Best singer songwriter for many year I love him!!!!!!!!!
Oh man I simply cannot stop listening to this entire album. Nor can I turn it up loud enough. It has the best of big stage energy and brilliant intimate songs.
Billy you're the best!
The flames were everywhere, But no one really cared
It always burned up there before.
But we didn't start the fire.
懐かしい!何時までも色褪せない…!
One of my favorites of his!
I would say second after Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
間切もなき天才！
This shit hits different in the middle of a pandemic.
right?!?
It hits different on a day like today, too. :(
This song makes me feel nostalgic for a time and place Ive never been to
Prophets and angels gave us the power to see...
There aren’t many who remember, they say only handful still survive.
Fantastic album, and this one has really grown on me. It’s hard to believe that the record label was ready to drop Billy after this album came out, because of lackluster sales.
You were only 3 years out Billy....
After the towers came down in NYC, a carrier was sent up from Norfolk. I have ever since tied NYC being dimmed by the attack, to this song.
Colgate, 1976. in the hockey rink. 1,997 kids from across NYS and NJ losing their sh-t with Billy Joel. That was so many years ago....
I think the best version of this song is when Billy played it at Shea Stadium
The version on Songs In The Attic.
@@seanscanlon9067 that one too
When I discovered this album at the ripe old age of 16 I loved it but figured this song for distopian futurism, fueled by the state of NY at the time it was written.
But each time I listened to it it seemed to be telling me, not yet.
9-11 happened and "the mighty skyline" did fall, at least in part. But though now more tragic, the song still told me, "not yet."
Now it is nearly 20 years later and I am seeing the northeast through different eyes. Though I love it here, the taxes and regulations are stifling and I am considering leaving for better climes. But each time I hear this song, it still whispers to me, "not yet."
I hope the day doesn't come when I play the record (yes I have the record) and it tells me, it is time. But if it does, I know that I will then be one of those few who remember, and keep the memory of better times alive, wherever I may go.
As long as a few people continue to support what is right and good in this world, the lights will never go out, not permanently.
Rock on.
4 months on from your writing Lone Rider and in another part of the world and I am hearing you loud and clear. Taxes and politicians who all come out of the same mold saying the same thing using different words are making me want to move on.
Tell me if you know please. If a politician makes a law increasing taxes are the politicians exempt from paying those taxes? If not aren't they emptying their own pockets like they are doing to ours?
I don't get it.
I can't go any way she won't let me and I don't like upsetting her.
and yet again, i think we've hit another moment here in 2020.
Many years ago a friend heard this song and said "Picked the Yankees up? What about the Mets?" I sang my reply: "They said that Queens could stay..." :)
Screw the Mets.
Holds up and is relevant now ! Especially the world is coming undone again.
I play piano,keyboards and this man is amazing .......
It's Billy Joel who can punch-up such impressive lyrics to this turmoil status in 60-70s.
Miami 2020.
I loved these days billy joel
Still so very awesome.
blessed am i to have found billy in mid 2017 and not later
U fu*king LOVE Billy Joel
DizziNY1
Damn right
DizziNY1 Damn right bro!
Damn, I really love this song
His song, James, is the one that really gripped me way back when. The word picture is so candid and descriptive.
I find it peculiar, the way life takes place, and progresses. It seems to be that way about music, too.
It's often before age 30 that people do some of their best and most prolific work, in a lot of areas.
After that, it may be harder to get in touch with it.
Why?
Wouldn't you think that things progress even further?
Maybe it has to do with our youthful exuberance, before our jaded experiences start to strangle free expression.
I don't know.
I've written music and poetry. There's not a lot about getting older that I like.
Well, except maybe seeing another round of fresh, new faces and unfettered hearts surface as I go along.
I know I won't be around to see what they've become. And, I feel both sad and cheated, because of it.
But, neither would I deny them that opportunity, just because the oil supply in my own lamp has become low.
I continue to remember something that happened when I was young, maybe only 4 or 5.
My grandmother took me for a walk. This was in a small town in Ohio. I think the sun was going down. The light was fading.
I'm pretty sure she was holding my hand.
It must have been that long ago. She lost her ability to walk at a fairly young age. I think maybe she told me she got hit by a car. I remember a large scar on her leg.
Anyway, as we walked, at some point I said,
"Grandma, I wish you would never have to die".
Suddenly, she stopped walking.
When I looked up at her, she was crying. I dont remember any sound. Just the tears.
I didn’t know what it meant.
But, as I've grown older myself, I've come to understand the reason why.
RIP Grandma. I still love you, and miss you every day. ❤
back to the future
Genius
Great album
Still listening here and now
Listening in 2018...
Billy reminds me of growing up on The Long island sound. I thought he was Italian kid like me with no direction.
When this song first comes on, I think it's lady when you're with me I'm smiling.
Great song, still
Fantastic audio [quality] on this post. Great plus. (Obviously a fantastic song, but that is established fact.)
We made it!
Don't speak too soon..;)
Still remains to be seen...
Well most did, but a good amount didn't.
Brilliant.
PROPHECY FULFILLED!
first time i heard this song. he was right in alot of ways.
Change of plans. Makes for better Striper fishing! 🙌🏻
When he mentions that they blew the bridges, it reminded me of that scene in the Will Smith film, "I Am Legend".
Exactly.
Same here.
begin remembering..
For me theisis B.Joelsbest work...
Here we go again and we will get through it again.
Prophetic.
Best albuomn for me top to bottom....
This is my theme song
Can we share this theme song...?
Glad i commented before the year was done
His vocals are stronger in the "songs in the attic" version, but damn, the original I instrumental is actually pretty rad!!
Just watched the episode of SNL where this was live
Hi Deceptive Weasel, a unique name for a person caring for vulnerable folk, I get your new interpretation... you are wise!
Not half bad :-)
Still have my vinyl.
I've always listened to the version from Songs from the Attic. Huh.
Yes, the live version of this song on that album really rocks.
Yes, the live version is way better!
I've got both as well as a cover by (I think) Richard Marx. But the truth is Billy Joel's studio album is the version I like most. It has to do with the brass at the very end, it sends a chill down my spine every time, almost like someone playing taps... But the energy in most of the live "attic" version is indeed awesome as well. If I had heard that first, I honestly think it would be a tough call!
Wow 2018 now:)
Guys, Tesla envisioned our current technological world, and billy Joel envisioned our sociological world.
Don’t go changing, to try and please me. You never let me down before.
The dude was a genius.
But I think reality follows creativity and that’s what we see with these kinds of things.
I'm from Miami and just found this song in 2017...weird.
He wrote the song from the point of view of an old guy who escaped to Miami after NYC was destroyed.Miami is also where people go to retire when they are old.
I would like to watch this Live just once before I kick the bucket
He at least got the mafia taking over mexico right lol
And everyone moving to Florida.
I Had The Pleasure Of Catching One Of His Shows At Seaton Hall University Back In The 70s, But His Version Of 2017 Was Outstanding From The Old Grey Whistle Test I Cought On You Tube Today
How did he not make it into The Warrior's soundtrack?
Is billy gonna do a concert in Miami next year and sing this? XD that would be awesome
I went to the New Years concert and right after the ball dropped he played it
He's too busy making more money than God doing a residency at Madison Square Garden.
gamers rise up
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought bright Cadillacs-
And left there long ago.
We held a concert out in Brooklyn-
To watch the Island bridges blow.
They turned our power down,
And drove us underground-
But we went right on with the show...
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the ruins at my feet,
You know we almost didn't notice it-
We'd see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.
They burned the churches up in Harlem-
Like in that Spanish Civil War-
The flames were everywhere,
But no one really cared-
It always burned up there before...
I saw the lights go out on Broadway-
I watched the mighty skyline fall.
The boats were waiting at the Battery,
The union went on strike-
They never sailed at all.
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk-
And picked the Yankees up for free.
They said that Queens could stay,
They blew the Bronx away-
And sank Manhattan out to sea...
You know those lights were bright on Broadway-
But that was so many years ago...
Before we all lived here in Florida-
Before the Mafia took over Mexico.
There are not many who remember-
They say a handful still survive...
To tell the world about...
The way the lights went out,
And keep the memory alive...❤🎹🎶🙏
cool album cover, shows a demographically diverse consortium representing critics, naysayers, fans, remix artists, impressionable minds, casual listeners, masters of the arts and science, and capitalists who surround the solo musician.
I did this for my school concert