That would really only sharpen the catch-’em-while-you-can pitch embedded in “Two Icons - One Night,” as the current show is called. “Dropping Like Flies” was his joking title for the next possible tour. McVie, who died on Wednesday, was the earthbound counterpoint to bandmate Stevie Nicks’ crystal visions, and the group’s most lovely and merciful presence.īesides, how much sense does a joint bill of boomers even need to make? (Recall that Nicks toured a decade ago with Rod Stewart, of all people.) As Joel told The Times in an interview last week, McVie was just one casualty of the war of attrition that time is waging against his generation. Music Christine McVie’s greatness proved that shy girl power had a place in rock ‘n’ roll Maybe you want to crack some dad jokes, as 73-year-old Joel did, about his lack of dance skills, just before his band struck up the Rolling Stones’ “ Start Me Up” and he flailed around for a minute like an adult-aerobics Mick Jagger. Maybe you want to show off a voice, as Nicks did, that still sounds great at age 74 - low and smoky, with an imperiousness that can suddenly melt away to reveal pure need. There are less noble reasons to tour, of course, some of which were in evidence Friday. It’s a way to keep the classic music alive, even (or especially) when it’s painful it shows there’s use left in the old songs, not just for the audience but for the artist as well.
Joel, who performs with Stevie Nicks on Friday at SoFi Stadium, on the inspiration for ‘Piano Man,’ farewell tours and his ‘70s hit he now calls ‘dreary.’įinding new emotional purpose in well-worn material - in lines like those in “Landslide” about getting older after having built your life around someone - is probably the most you can ask of a veteran rock star on the road for the umpteenth time. years: I felt like ‘an exiled writer living in Paris’
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