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Billy Joel will play the last show @ Shea Stadium

The Beatles @ Shea Stadium

Billy Joel will be the last artist to play at New York’s Shea Stadium with a July 16 concert billed as “The Last Play at Shea, From the Beatles to Billy.” The show comes in the midst of the New York Mets’ final season at Shea; the team moves into its new home at Citi Field in 2009….The Joel show, promoted by Live Nation in association with Mitch Slater, goes on sale Feb. 16……”The Last Play at Shea,” which comes the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, makes Joel the only artist to ever have played both Yankee Stadium (two nights in 1991) and Shea Stadium [Billboard]

Video of the Beatles playng Shea, and related footage, below….