{"id":9521,"date":"2025-07-27T02:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:38:27","slug":"billy-joel-grins-like-a-kid-as-ac-dcs-brian-johnson-steals-the-show-at-madison-square-garden-with-a-blistering-you-shook-me-all-night-long-turning-the-piano-man-into-his-ow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=9521","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel Grins Like a Kid as AC\/DC\u2019s Brian Johnson Steals the Show at Madison Square Garden with a Blistering \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long,\u201d Turning the Piano Man Into His Own Backing Singer in One of Rock\u2019s Most Joyful Surprise Collabs Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/site\/366\/files\/2014\/03\/Brian-Johnson-Billy-Joel.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=0&amp;zc=1&amp;s=0&amp;a=t&amp;q=89&amp;format=natural\" alt=\"AC\/DC's Brian Johnson Rocks Billy Joel's New York Show\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If there\u2019s one legendary rock \u2018n\u2019 roller who can turn Billy Joel into his backing vocalist at Joel\u2019s own show, then it\u2019s the one and only Brian Johnson. The thunderous voice of AC\/DC tore the roof off Madison Square Garden with a rollicking rendition of \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long,\u201d with Joel providing piano and backing vocals. The Piano Man introduced the English rocker by noting that he was from \u201cmaybe the best band I ever saw in my life\u201d before the iconic opening chords of \u201cYou Shook Me\u2026\u201d rang out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Joel &amp; Brian Johnson: You Shook Me All Night Long (Live at Madison Square Garden 21\/03\/2014)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prC8i430gyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The then-66-year-old Johnson has aged like fine wine. You can tell he really takes care of his voice, and he just sounds absolutely killer. Johnson sang all the high notes with his signature hellraising shriek and worked the crowd with the ease of a natural-born star. You can tell Joel was just loving seeing the Acca Dacca legend fronting his band, as The Piano Man was grinning from ear to ear throughout the song. We have to say if you need a feel-good pick-me-up, then this is just the jam to do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson uploaded the collab to his YouTube channel, where it drew 2.2 million views. Fans were digging the surprise appearance and added comments such as \u201cProbably the most fun Billy Joel\u2019s band ever had\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s most impressive is that Brian never cheats. He doesn\u2019t make the audience sing the whole chorus or back off on the hard notes. He always puts everything he\u2019s got into the whole performance, which is why he\u2019s still one of the most legendary frontmen ever in rock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson always brings the fire when he sits in with other bands. More proof of this came when he hit the stage with English art rockers Muse to tear up Reading Fest with the Acca Dacca classic \u201cBack in Black.\u201d We never thought he\u2019d hear Muse play such straight-ahead rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, but has to say they absolutely crushed it. Seeing Muse frontman Matt Bellamy just having a ball onstage while tearing it up on the guitar is also a lot of fun! It\u2019s such a trip seeing him rip an Angus Young solo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUSE &amp; Brian Johnson of AC\/DC - Back In Black [Reading Festival 2017]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZG8lRU73jc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AC\/DC dropped \u201cYou Shook Me All Night Long\u201d on August 15, 1980. The song was the band\u2019s first release with Johnson on the mic, after the legendary Bon Scott passed at just 33 years old on February 19, 1980. The songwriting is credited to Johnson and the band\u2019s guitar duo Angus Young and Malcolm Young. However, numerous people, including Bon Scott\u2019s girlfriend Silver Smith and AC\/DC\u2019s booking agent Doug Thaler, have asserted that much of the lyrics were in fact written by Scott, citing numerous lines that they saw in the late frontman\u2019s lyric books prior to his passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s one legendary rock \u2018n\u2019 roller who can turn Billy Joel into his backing vocalist at Joel\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musician"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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