Then again, with 33 Top 40 songs to Joel’s credit between 19, and lots of deep album cuts, he has no lack of concert repertoire from which to choose. Yet, while John has continued to make and release new albums, Joel has not put out an album of new songs since 1993’s “River of Dreams.” That he was easily able to satisfy his audience here is a testament to the durability and undiminished appeal of his time-tested songs, which have been sampled by such hip-hop stars as Drake, Snoop Dogg and Nas. That’s two years older than New York native Joel, who - early in his career - was often referred to as “the American Elton John.” “Bull-, you don’t have much money!” Joel blurted, one multimillionaire, piano-playing rock star good-naturedly jabbing another. With that, he began to play John’s “Your Song.” He delivered it with a palpable sense of reverence, which abruptly ended just after he tenderly intoned the couplet: “I don’t have much money.” “I was here a long time ago with ‘the other guy,’ you know. “This is very cool I haven’t been here for, like, 15 years,” Joel told the Petco crowd. Neither was the decade and a half since Joel last appeared here on a double-bill with Elton John at SDSU’s Cox (now Viejas) Arena. The returning-hero’s welcome he received here wasn’t lost on Joel, who was joined for the fourth of his fifth encore numbers by San Diego Grammy Award-winner Jason Mraz. That’s faster than Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones and Madonna sold out their respective concerts at the same downtown San Diego ballpark. Joel’s hits-fueled Petco show sold-out in a record 45 seconds.
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