Billy Joel Groups Up with Jason Bonham to Play ‘Complete Lotta Love’ at New Yr’s Eve Live performance

Billy Joel rung within the new 12 months in taste, becoming a member of forces with Jason Bonham for a rendition of Led Zeppelin‘s “Complete Lotta Love”.

Functioning at Lengthy Island’s UBS Enviornment on Tuesday (Dec. 31), Joel’s end-of-year impressive used to be a distinct for one for a lot of causes. Now not handiest used to be the night time preceded via Jason Bonham’s Led Zepellin Night because the opener, however the long set noticed the veteran musician roll out quite a few fan favorites for the night time, together with a couple of rarer tracks from his in depth into his again catalog.

Whilst the seldom-heard 1982’s “A Room of Our Personal” were given a look-in, rarer nonetheless used to be a efficiency of 1974’s “Memento”, which gained handiest its thirteenth appearing from around the previous 40 years.

Then again, probably the most notable songs from the night time used to be person who wasn’t Joel’s personal. Simply over a 3rd of the way in which during the set, Joel switched his center of attention to welcome Bonham and his band to the level for a rendition of 1969’s “Complete Lotta Love”.

“We’re going to convey a visitor onstage and do that subsequent tune,” Joel stated to the group. “We’ve a laugh taking part in this, particularly with this man. Please welcome Jason Bonham. You all know this tune. It’s now not a piano tune.”

With Bonham acting drums at the tune his father helped make well-known greater than 5 many years in the past, Joel’s longtime guitarist and vocalist Mike DelGuidice sang lead at the observe, relagting Joel to the background relatively.

Listening to Joel carry out “Complete Lotta Love” isn’t a rarity (if truth be told, he additionally carried out it at his earlier New Yr’s Eve birthday celebration on the identical venue), and it seamlessly have compatibility in among the remainder of the set, which additionally featured renditions of The Rolling Stones’ “Get started Me Up”, and Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla”, which used to be used to fill time forward of the nighttime countdown.

The display additionally wrapped up a large 12 months for Joel, who now not handiest concluded his record-breaking ten-year Madison Sq. Lawn residency (incomes $266.7 million from 1.9 million price ticket gross sales to 104 presentations), but in addition launched “Flip the Lighting Again On” – his first new lyrical unmarried in just about twenty years.