‘Paul McCartney winked right at me’: the fans who buy nosebleed seats – and get whisked to the front | Music | The Guardian
Billy Joel and Coldplay are among other legends who want their biggest devotees at the front Matthew CantorMatthew Cantor@CantorMatthewThu 10 Aug 2023 01.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 10 Aug 2023 01.47 EDT Billy Joel has announced he’s finally winding down his record-breaking residency at Madison Square Garden, after a decade of playing one sold-out concert a month at the New York venue.Legions of fans have flocked to the arena to see him in that time, but early in the residency Joel said he wouldn’t sell tickets to the front rows, because, he told Billboard in 2014, they were often sold at inflated prices to rich people; he’d see them “sitting there puffing on a cigar, ‘entertain me, piano man.’ They don’t stand up, make noise.”
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