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Joel: didn't start a fire, will close the stadium
Shea Stadium is going to close very soon - the New York Mets were ashamed of being one of the few professional sports teams who played in a venue named after a person who did something, rather than a corporation which cut a cheque, and so they're relocating to CitiField.
This means, of course, not only an end to baseball at the venue, but also the conclusion of a chunk of musical history. VH1 called it "the most hallowed venue in rock and roll", which might be pushing it a bit, but it's still had a quite an impressive track record - REM, the Beatles, The Clash and Humble Pie have all had a go there. So, who more fitting than Billy Joel to round off the list?
Yes, Billy Joel. We expect it was tricky to find someone who was free that day.
Interestingly, Wikipedia insists Marvel re-enacted Spiderman and Mary Jane at Shea Stadium, but as everybody knows, Peter Parker and Mary Jane never married, did they?
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If this stadium performance by Joel on YouTube is anything to go by, you won't be missing much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2OY3oO5p3s
How obvious is it that he's using AutoTune? (The step around 21sec is a dead giveaway.) That's shocking stuff, one step removed from lip syncing. For shame, Joel.
They never married. Never. Ask Mephisto if you don't believe me...
Everything I know about the Marvel universe I learn from Everyday Is Like Wednesday.
david raposa wrote a good thing about the whole sorry spidey business over on Cave 17.
Can't we have spiderman closing shea stadium instead?
What a great insult to that legendary political activist, Che Stadium...
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