UPDATE: CBS To Rebroadcast Billy Joel Concert Friday Night

By Susie Madrak — April 15, 2024

UPDATE: CBS to rebroadcast the show in its entirety Friday night.

I was watching when this happened, and I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. The show started a half-hour late, and they cut off the last song? And now you have to have a Paramount subscription to watch it? You suck, CBS. Via Yahoo News:

Enraged Billy Joel fans put network big shots on blast on Sunday night after a televised concert was cut off in the middle of his best-known song.

Viewers who had been waiting for the longest time for the CBS broadcast of the 100th concert of his residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden had to wait just a little longer when it was delayed by the network’s extended coverage of golf’s Masters Tournament.

Then, toward the end of the show, as Joel performed a rousing version of “Piano Man” with the MSG audience and fans at home singing along, viewers in many cities saw their screens go to black, followed by local news:

Hey @CBS wtf is this?! You cut off @billyjoel during Pianoman of all songs?! And then didn’t come back to it?!?! Now wonder network TV is a mess.
Not ballin, not ballin at all. pic.twitter.com/QBBxLZOABO

— Gunz (@TheGunzShow) April 15, 2024

Billy Joel: Son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes

Sing us a song you're the Piano Man--

CBS: No. pic.twitter.com/D9hNJjuNUC

— Karen DaltonBeninato (@kbeninato) April 15, 2024

CBS’s official statement on cutting off the heavily-promoted Billy Joel concert in the middle of “Piano Man”

“It was a beautiful song but it ran too long; If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit, so we cut it down to 3:05”#billyjoel

— Bern from 'IIH, IIF, IIC' (@BernBabyBern) April 15, 2024

I mean, I don’t know what @CBS thought would happen, but on Long Island people are putting sleeping toddlers and pitchforks in their running cars. #BillyJoel

— Natasha (@Toooshie) April 15, 2024

CBS cutting off Billy Joel during the last chorus of Piano Man is hitting Billy Joel fans like a vehicle driven by Billy Joel colliding with a house in Oyster Bay pic.twitter.com/rPLn4S3hCC

— Mike (@hammerito) April 15, 2024

Hopefully @CBS will air the Billy Joel concert at Madison Square Garden again after cutting tonight’s performance short. So many people are understandably twisted over the call to cut to the news. This is what people saw in the Philly-metro area. #BillyJoel100 #BillyJoelOnCBS… pic.twitter.com/9Z8JprhaEM

— Anthony Biondo Jr. (@abiondo) April 15, 2024

One of the fans who attended posted their own video, so here it is. Some small comfort for having your mellow harshed! (It really was a great show.)