Fans go wild as legendary 80s music star announces shows in two UK cities for the first time in over 40 years

Fans have gone wild as a legendary 80s music star is set to return to the UK for two exclusive performances in 2025.

The singer, 75, has two days lined up in Europe next year on Saturday, June 7, at Edinburgh’s Scottish Gas Murrayfield, and Saturday, June 21, at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium.

The upcoming shows will mark his first time performing in Scotland’s capital for 46 years and Liverpool for 45 years. 

It’s Billy Joel! An online blurb reads: ‘As decades pass, Billy Joel’s music remains timeless, and these concerts are set to become part of his enduring legacy.

‘With these being his only European performances in 2025, they are bound to be moments etched in history.’

This will mark his first time performing in Scotland’s capital for 46 years and Liverpool for 45 years

The singer is famed for a string of hits including Piano Man

Fans can expect to hear iconic tracks including Uptown Girl, Just The Way You Are, The Longest Time and Vienna. 

Tickets will go on general sale at 10am on Friday October 4, 2024 via Ticketmaster. 

Joel becomes the second artist to be confirmed to perform at Anfield in the summer of 2025, following the announcement that Dua Lipa.

The pair of shows will follow his sold-out concert at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in August.

Following the announcement fans have taken to X to share their excitement, with one user writing: ‘Billy Joel has not one but two shows in the UK next year I am Unwelll.’

Another added: ‘Glad I missed out on Oasis and Coldplay tickets, Billy Joel is coming back to the UK next year.’

‘Wow I know what I want to put on my list to Santa @Billyjoel,’ said a third.

A fourth penned: ‘Billy Joel at Anfield next year. Saw him live last year at Hyde Park and he was superb.’

Fans of Billy have taken to X, formerly Twitter, to share their excitement over his show announcement 

Billy released his first single in nearly two decades in February 

Joel has bagged 33 Top 40 hits – all of which he wrote himself.

Back in February, Joel opened up about why it took him nearly two decades to release his new single, Turn the Lights Back On.

Speaking with his co-writer Freddy Wexler on Audacy Check In, he said: ‘It was fun. Music is fun. 

‘Rock n’ roll was fun. It was all about having fun — and I kind of lost that and I turned the lights off because it wasn’t fun anymore.’

Joel explained that despite others begging for him to get back in the studio, he ‘always resisted it’.

He added: ‘I studiously avoided it because songwriting had become painful. I have this high bar.

‘I said to myself, ‘If I don’t reach that bar, I beat myself up and I punched myself and I hate myself.’ So, I stopped doing it because I got tired of feeling like that.’

Over the years Joel has bagged 33 Top 40 hits – all of which he wrote himself.

He has received six Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Legend Award.