Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) (1980 - Official Audio)

In 1981, Billy Joel released his first live album titled Songs In The Attic. Listen to Billy Joel perform the track 'Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway' from a live 1980 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Lyrics:
Come out Virginia, don't let me me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
They showed you a statue and told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
But they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done...
Only the good die young
You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one
Come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I'll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you're hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Darling, only the good die young
Billy Joel's official KZbin 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.

[@ih8kit]

There is no better version of this excellent song. "Songs in the Attic" is one of the greatest live albums ever made.

[@henryreinhold9097]

Absolutely.

[@TheCantolope]

Totally agree. Number 2 of five in desert island playlist.

[@jimjohnson9200]

I haven't and won't read the other comments.. but I totally agree on your statement regarding this recording... I read the interior LP up and down too.. Found it best to listen to this as he intended.. full-blown PA to drive the neighborhood nuts and rattle my windows loose! Best played LOUD.. IT'S ALL FOR LEYNA TOO...

[@45gloak]

It is my go to vinyl

[@nobodysbaby5048]

I would tend to agree. Amazing how many people have never even heard of this album. I've gotten so many "never heard of it" responses over the years.

[@WeTheWounded]

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I listened to this song on my way to school. It still gives me chills thinking about it.

[@lamargalloway4556]

Heard this the morning after on the way to work (at a school)....ditto on the chills!

[@nobodysbaby5048]

One of life's weird moments. I was in my office & portable TV's magically appeared everywhere. One of the eeriest moments of my life when that normally cooking call center went dead silent.

[@abt3807]

It’s gives me chills how many fools think this event was committed by 19 Saudi Arabians with box cutters.🙄

[@nobodysbaby5048]

@@abt3807 Well said.

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Life is full of weird coincidences like that. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@MatthewSmith-cv7op]

The best version of this song. It has a rawer more visceral feel than the studio version, that, "keeps the memory, alive".

[@TheRustyones]

+Matthew Smith I agree, I think all the songs on this album are better than the lp versions. Great album.

[@AD-yi3qz]

+TheRustyones I agree.

[@birdofprey1266]

I definitely agree, and so would Billy himself. I heard he hated the way the studio version of this and other early songs sounded and made this record so they could be heard in truer form.

[@BrewBlues]

this is the album that got me into Billy Joel when I was a kid. My mom had the CD in her car and I used to make her play it every time we went somewhere.

[@kenhenderson7999]

This is definitely a song that sounds better live. This is a good version, but, IMO, the best was the version done at Yankee Stadium.

[@robincampbell3050]

Liberty is in full beast mode on the drums

[@johnmontague4245]

He certainly is. I love his drumming with BJ in the early days. His work on Rosalindas Eyes is just wonderful.

[@helixcrow]

He's my top 5 favorite drummers of all time. Some people don't realize. I've seen him in concert hit a cymbal so hard during a song that it went off the stand and landed upside-down on his snare. He flipped it over his back and kept going like nothing happened.

[@jeffcummins1408]

Without question, my favorite Billy Joel song. I'll leave it at that, rather than list a litany of reasons for it.

[@antidotetodoublespeak311]

It’s pure brilliance. Totally underrated. It kinda leaves me breathless sometimes. Still, after listening for decades.

[@rafaelfelices8646]

Songs in the Attic is one of the greatest live albums ever made.

[@edlawn5481]

Thanks to Mr. Liberty DeVitto.

[@JimAllen-Persona]

Saw him last week at MSG and he opened with Miami 2017. Crowd went batshit.. it was great. 😊😊 73 and still kicking ass.

[@tomgio1]

I’m a drummer, and played this song with a cover band in the early ‘90’s, and it always killed, even if the crowd couldn’t place their finger on the song. That’s because it had had momentum, and energy, and style...and those components never go out of style.

[@64worshipper]

Liberty absolutely kills it!!! 👏👏👏

[@christianhafer9819]

@@64worshipper Definitely does.

[@jmm1000]

even on 1st hearing: you just know when a song is a masterpiece "anthem"

[@jamesgodfrey7688]

@tomgio, Wow, Kids today need to learn History!

[@damianwirth2313]

This song always reminds me of Sept 11th. "I watched the mighty skyline fall" "The boats were waiting at the Battery". All the ferries that came to evacuate.

[@nebula1924]

My first concert was Billy Joel in '79. Fortunate enough to have had young parents, they took me to the best show I've ever seen. It was magical for a 7 year old. I tried but failed to duplicate it for my kids. Of course I knew a tribute band in a small theater wasn't going to register as anything remotely close, but hey that was all I could do. Great times.

[@ogrebattle22763]

Billy Joel is to America what Elton John & Paul McCartney are to England... ROYALTY!!!

[@katrinak7394]

Crazy to think this song is older than his current wife.

[@kenscott736]

One of the greatest songs of all time but sadly underrated by critics of the time Billy Joel is a master of songwriting ! A modern day Mozart !!

[@ezrablock3218]

Billy Joel is one of the greatest if not the greatest musicians I have ever listened to. He can make a jaunty fun tune or a heavy emotional song. There is a Joel song for every occasion.

[@riccardoangeli802]

Sicuramente il più versatile e completo 🎹👏

[@shoenicedeletedvideosx3048]

Shame he doesn't make music anymore.

[@wjamesyoung]

One of the greatest drum lines ever. And I'm not one who usually notices the drum line.

[@xXTomokoKurokiXx]

Liberty DeVitto, a true legend.

[@richsackett3423]

Liberty Devito is one of the best rock drummers ever.

[@marclindblom9562]

Liberty killed it

[@handsonthroat]

Liberty. Absolute beast. 💚🤍❤️

[@peterborchers410]

This drum line is top notch - in a killer song

[@DavidDarrow]

Liberty is a legend!!!!

[@MrMalouf86]

LOVE this version. That early part with the drums 🪘 kicking in… can’t beat it

[@joesumma8658]

Best live version of any song ever recorded by anyone

[@MichaelAlso]

this and McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed from Wings Over America are staggering

[@MrBosonic]

Masterpiece.

[@danielmckeon2261]

MrBosonic you are 100% correct

[@davidwerner3592]

Outstanding live album! One of...if not one of the finest ever recorded!

[@edlawn5481]

Liberty DeVitto was the star of this album.

[@christianhafer9819]

@@edlawn5481 Underrated drummer.

[@MichaelAlso]

This specific Miami 2017 and McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" from Wings Over America are 2 of the greatest live performances ever

[@sgtpepper1138]

Agreed.

[@richsackett3423]

I remember thinking in the 70s that 2017 seemed impossibly far in the future. Now it's five years ago.

[@MrPhilipBallard]

I can't begin to describe how damn good of a live album this is. This ranks up there with The Who's Live at Leeds and Frampton Comes Alive. I'm on a Billy Joel kick right now and re-listening to all his albums. He's just so fucking good.

[@DarklordZagarna]

What makes BJ so extraordinary is that he's incredible at every aspect of music-- songwriting, composition, singing, piano, and-- as seen on this album-- live shows. Every one of those is a straight A grade; there's not even an arguable weak point. He's the Shohei Ohtani of music-- he just does everything. (Right down to the "getting robbed by his manager" aspect...)

[@JohnSanborn-y2n]

This live version wipes the floor with the studio version. 10x better in my opinion without the echo vocals the original had. Now I could understand the lyrics.

[@msanchez1680d]

I meet Billy Joel with this album when I was a kid, I think I was 3 or 4 years old and this was the first song I heard of him (of course ) the impact of this song for a little kid still prevail to this days and forever! The whole album is a Masterpiece!

[@delta0921]

I live in Miami and it's now Jan. 2017!!! Awesome song!!!

[@mjgoodson]

Good luck this year!

[@firechill9999]

I'm sorry they blew the bridges up

[@shannonk3817]

This is my favorite Billy song and I’ve been lucky enough to hear it live. He started the concert with the piano solo and only a blue light on the stage, I had chills the whole song. I love his raw talent in this version, and how he throws in “I’ve seen the rats lie down on Broadway” in the second chorus

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

Shannon K I love that too. Kinds Sounds dark.

[@davidhelmut26]

For me this is the best version of this song AFTER the one from Yankee Stadium. Even though the scream at “the way the lights went out” is much more raw and powerful here, I love when he absolutely belts out the “they blew the bronx away” part... really wish he’d done that here too, but seriously both these versions are SUPERIOR

[@damianwirth2313]

My first concert was that concert. I was 8 yrs old.

[@davidhelmut26]

@@damianwirth2313 damn... how was it? Do you remember much?

[@mylesbaron7670]

Best album ever.

[@doublej118jc]

He's the greatest story teller of all time!

[@5XL_Movieguy]

This weirdly enough is my favorite Billy Joel album

[@mditt7]

nothin weird about that man!

[@kevinschwabe4201]

Just a sign that you know good tunes!

[@montythepython7614]

Certainly at top form this night!!. Billy and Liberty..Wow!

[@user-nu3du9ty5s]

Absolutely, one of the greatest, flawlessly performed and most powerful 'live' songs by any artist, in any venue. And at Madison Square Garden, in front of 20,000+ people. This performance is one in 100 million! So glad this was captured on tape...

[@riccardoangeli802]

Conoscevo già ed apprezzavo Billy Joel .... Ma dopo aver comprato questo album ho capito che Lui è il più completo e brillante songwriter e performer in assoluto 🎹👏🎹👏🎹👏🎹

[@rayluca12]

My favorite Billy Joel album

[@BadBricksProductions]

What I would pay to go back in time and be able to see this live

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

The best performance of Miami 2017 I’ve heard since the 1977 Carnegie Hall show. I also like how he sings “I’ve Seen the RATS LIE DOWN ON BROADWAY” Sounds very dark, but still a fucking GREAT song! :D

[@ingenito919]

England got Paul McCartney We got Billy Joel

[@joss63]

Peter Ingenito lucky you - the Beatles couldn’t even lace Billy’s Boots!

[@seanscanlon9067]

I usually don't like to be rude to people, so apologies in advance but I'm afraid in my view that's just nonsense. I'm a massive Billy Joel fan but we both probably wouldn't be listening to his music at all but for The Beatles. You only have to listen to The Nylon Curtain to show that......That's not to say who is better or worse either, as those kind of arguments generally tend to be just as much nonsense too.

[@fanaticaldueling6337]

England got Elton John, hits both out of the ballpark.

[@quantumblauthor7300]

@@fanaticaldueling6337 Elton John is getting on in years, which is a real shame because he would make a great intergalactic ambassador.

[@HiEverybody]

We win

[@wingshad0w00982]

After Sinatra’s ‘New York new York’ this is easily my second favorite New York anthem. And as a song, I like it a bit more than Sinatra’s. Lucky for me billy Joel actually lives one town over.

[@FranciscoBravoCabrera]

Bought this album when it came out and still have it...

[@toddhawk4670]

One of his best! And this is the definitive version of this song.

[@fujow111]

Liberty on drums,nuff said

[@rorybehrens7652]

Liberty plays this song like he's the star

[@rhodmcbride4256]

Liberty made me want to become a drummer all because of this song and live

[@bensteinberg2154]

Here we go again.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

This is our new York city fight song, our reminder to get up off the floor. We are always going to need this song, in good times or bad. It plays best when it seems that the rest of the country seems against us. " yeah I know you think this city is finished this time, but we're not dead yet so... No doubt NYC the greatest city in the world. Thanks billy for knowing that in 1970's when it was uncool to feel that way!

[@mditt7]

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 I've been to NYC three times. I wanna live there but I'm stuck down here in rural Australia

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

@@mditt7 I'm sure this song works for Australia too? Think of the town in your area that most people think is a dump, it would be better if they just bring in the bulldozers. Then visit there for a bit, try to meet the people who have lived there for 40 years, the mothers and grandmothers who raised their children there. Then the next time someone dumps on that town you will feel this song. It captures what NYC felt like in 1970s, especially the Bronx! You are an idiot, why are you still living there? So great to remember that Billy Joel felt that it was time to move BACK to NYC in the 1970s. A real love letter to the City through action, with a growling rocknroll style too! Now too much money is destroying NYC, very hard to find real working class neighborhoods where rents are TRuly affordable, not these bizarre affordable housing rezoning plans that are really just giveaways for real estate con artists. I don't know if there is a rocknroll song for that, I know NYC is not the only town going through this... Maybe billy has one more song in him? Lol... Maybe Alexa could write it.... Enjoy Australia! Love it like its your own!

[@repstein1980]

How prophetic this is amazes me, this has stood the test of time and taken on new meaning throughout the decades...just awesome

[@stevenfirkser8340]

The best musician ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@122099]

Found this album in a "give-away-bag" full of cds on the street in the city where I live. In 2017. Well, thank you, stranger! :)

[@riccardoangeli802]

Piano Man non sbaglia mai un "pezzo" .... Talento completo .... Per lui la musica un gioco facile 🎹👏🎹👏🎹

[@danc3488]

"I wrote that song 25 years ago. I thought it was going to be a science fiction song...I never thought it would really happen. But...unlike the end of that song, we ain't going anywhere!" **transition to New York State Of Mind** - Billy Joel, The Concert For New York City. October 20, 2001

[@nicocanadian2385]

My favourite album of all.....love every tune

[@EddieLJ18]

I just found the vinyl of this record at my dad's, damn and I can still listen to it! Loved it.

[@danielmckeon2261]

Rami Digier that’s awesome!!

[@BirdLivesInMe]

If it wasn't in his attic it didn't count! I actually bought this album for my father and got to enjoy it years later.

[@daveborcher3171]

I always thought this was Billy Joel's best. I went to a show in Berkeley, CA waaay back when, and he opened with this. The synth opening kinda gives you a shiver in a live venue. My date barely knew who Billy Joel was, and had never heard 'Miami 2017' before... she was highly impressed.

[@garyraymer]

This is damn good, every tune, every nuance, drums, sax, guitars, the best!!!!

[@samykurba9886]

Billy wrote this piece dancing in the galaxy 💗😍💗

[@JamesKmosko]

The way the last note of the verse lingers off-key underneath the piano outro always gets me. It probably wasn't even intentional, but it's one of the most dramatic endings I've ever heard.

[@Com9448]

this song rocks...nuff said..

[@Com9448]

most of Billy's stuff is played out,,this IS my fave by him..hands down!

[@ziggystardust1751]

God this song rushes my soul with so many good memories Thank you Billy Joel.and the post.

[@AD-yi3qz]

Billy at his finest

[@dekopac311japan2]

"Miami 2017" have came true right now.

[@hoxtondave9619]

Agreed - it's more relevant now than ever. Great song, very underrated, very pertinent, and Billy's voice and piano is spot on here - he absolutely nailed it.

[@jordanpetersonon200mgdiaze3]

What does Miami 2017 mean?

[@albietide]

I miss the old, dirtier New York.

[@edlawn5481]

@@jordanpetersonon200mgdiaze3 It means he is in Miami in 2017 looking back at what happened in New York, highly prophetic.

[@mjs3764]

This is, by far, my favorite Billy Joel album.

[@TonyWud]

Liberty!

[@tommyboy6267]

Ah...1980. First time I heard this powerful song after buying this album. Wore that record out. It still gives me rushes! "I watched the mighty skyline fall"! Shit man!

[@Sean-me4fv]

Congac Bodean What is actually about??

[@damianwirth2313]

@@Sean-me4fv a man reflecting back on NYC after retiring to Florida in 2017.

[@mr.green2341]

And here in 2024, Turn the Lights Back On… :)

[@DavidPlass]

Well played! (Pun intended)

[@wefukthenwo]

You should see this guy live. Wow!

[@EnriqueCalzada-lf2hu]

Billy Joel, piano man, piano MASTER

[@Andre50a]

I went to SUNY-Oneonta from 1977-1980. During that time there was a WONY show called "Lullaby of Broadway" The student DJ would end the show with this song. I loved listening to it.

[@lauramelaniemusic9183]

This is my favorite song of his to play - the piano part is brilliant. I still can't get through it without tearing up~

[@RayD70]

One of my absolute favorites. So odd to be listening knowing that is indeed 2017.

[@montythepython7614]

The stacatto minuette ending us absolute genius

[@americantiger5041]

Best American artist ever!!!!!!

[@ezrablock3218]

Love this song!

[@RobertSmith-tt5qv]

GREAT ALBUM! BOUGHT THIS NEW IN 1986.

[@LSommer]

I'll be at that Notre Dame gig when the power comes back on. 😊❤️

[@sgtpepper1138]

The first Billy Joel album I ever bought, it's still one of my favorites.

[@sgtpepper1138]

Hello me from 9 years ago, sorry to say life sucks a lot more now.

[@richsackett3423]

@@sgtpepper1138 That's the way it happens for everyone.

[@marieduffy8063]

Love you Billy listen to you every day.

[@BobCat623923]

Billy's best album from beginning to end.

[@fionaphillips3458]

This was always a bangin' song , high energy and to the point, classic Billy !

[@64worshipper]

Absolute favorite song (as well as version) by Billy Joel.

[@blacktytrix]

I love this especially cuz I'm from New York too!

[@neolancer]

One of my favourite vynils... found in 1986 for only 0'80$ . New.

[@greenwave819]

I think this song really happened

[@geoffreyturton1472]

I got to say I'm a proud English man but f__k me I like this song and this version is the best I have heard. When I hear songs like this I think to myself what would it be like to be an amercian. Hands up billy joel kicks arse. By the way I recommend you put your head phones on put the volume on full and listing to this.

[@MrAdriancooke]

What's an amercian?

[@JohnHenrySheridan]

Proud to have been the 718th person to LIKE this! 718 Brooklyn baby!! ;)

[@gloriamiller4930]

Our families will remember the lights going out on Broadway. More then a handful still survive .Billy what did you know then, are from the future

[@Andrew19991000]

Born and raced in the Bronx and they blew it away

[@Jellybeantiger]

This song makes me tear up,in fact the whole album makes me cry it's so beautiful.

[@charlieramos6443]

Best song and album ever!!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@danielmckeon2261]

9/11 never forgive, never forget.

[@normie1970]

My favorite song from my all time favorite live album

[@RIDETHESUNSHINE]

“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight . . . Will

[@peterhamilton6705]

The best cover band I've ever seen is, 'the billy joel experience' based in Central Scotland. They nail it.

[@edlawn5481]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Liberty DeVitto on drums!

[@orangevideos3131]

This is so surreal listening to in 2020 our state is crumbling just like in the song

[@peterdarker1]

Low-Key this is my favorite Billy Joel album with 52nd Street coming in FavoriteB

[@Minerva7]

Brilliant.

[@pilotjc1]

Simply the best

[@user-nz9hl4ms3v]

ビリー・ジョエルが歌うニューヨーク滅びの歌 ブロードウェイの灯が消えるのを見た　エンパイアステートが倒されるのを眺めていた 人々はパリセイズの向こうに避難し　彼等はキャディラックを買い占めて　ずっと前に立ち去ってしまった 僕等はブルックリンでコンサートを開いた　アイランドブリッジが吹き飛ばされるのを眺める為に 彼等は僕達の力を奪って地下へ追いやろうとしたけど　僕達はショーを続けたんだ ブロードウェイの灯が消えるのを見た　足元には破滅が拡がってた 知ってるよね　僕等は殆ど気にかけなかったんだ　何時だって42番街じゃ見慣れた光景だったから やつらはハーレムの教会を焼き尽くした　スペインの市民戦争のようにね あちこちで燃え上がる炎　でも誰ひとり気にしないのさ　これまでにも度々焼かれたんだ ブロードウェイの灯が消えるのを見た　壮大な摩天楼が崩れ落ちるのを見た いく隻の船が港で待機していたが　組合がストを続けていて　全く出航できなかった 彼等はノーフォークから船をかり出し　ヤンキースの一団を無料で乗せた 彼等はクイーンズ区はそのまま残すと言った　ブロンクスは吹き飛ばされた　そしてマンハッタンは海に沈んだ 君は街灯りがブロードウェイを照らしていた頃を知ってる　でもそれは遠い昔の話 僕等が皆、フロリダに住み着く前　マフィアがメキシコを支配する前のことさ 覚えている者はほとんどいないんだ　今ではひと握りしか残ってはいない あの街の灯がどうして失われたかを　その記憶をいつまでもなくさない為に　世界に伝えようとする者はね

[@daichanondo]

2017, now.

[@lilianacaetano2866]

Simplesmente amo ❤️!!!!

[@johnnyangel9163]

The New York city of the bad old days of the 70s Listen to the lyrics.thanks

[@garyraymer]

Just freaking awesome!!!!!!

[@thomasmilazzo6273]

There are not many who remember they say a handful still survive