“While working at WSAN when Billy Joel first appeared at The Roxy, I was put in charge of making sure he and the band got to the right hotel and the sound check on time. I never saw either our Kimble (or The Piano Man) ever again.” We U-Hauled it up to the Roxy for those two wonderful sold-out shows.
Billy Joel wanted at least a baby grand piano for his concerts. In the early 1970s we ignited the concert series at The Roxy Theater in Northampton.
Billy asked for everyone to sit and they did!” “At Ag Hall ($5 tickets) during his first song, fans were yelling for the people in front to sit down. However, most of Billy Joel’s Allentown fans were oblivious to the song’s content we were just glad for the “shout-out.’ I remember my sister, Michelle, and I took a limo with Dad to see the big show and Dad was proud to give Joel the key to the city.” Spreading the word that Allentown was a great place to live, an “All American City.’ It was a bit ironic that the song “Allentown’ spoke to Allentown’s downturn in the economy. “When Dad was mayor of Allentown there weren’t many perks. “During a Muhlenberg College sound check he was noodling at the piano while a drum mike was being adjusted and suddenly out came the intro first line of “Allentown,” way before it was completed and recorded.
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