This weekend I got to photograph the Billy Joel concert at Shea Stadium.
Besides shooting the show, highlights for me included seeing the back of Christie Brinkley‘s head and talking to a chef from the Food Network whose name I didn’t know.
I later found out it was Guy Fieri. I had no idea how popular those cooking shows are. He couldn’t go three feet without someone wanting to talk to him.
The first pop group to play a concert at a U.S. sports stadium was the Beatles at Shea in 1965. There have only been a handful of concerts in the stadium since then, but the list includes Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Not bad.
They’re tearing down the stadium at the end of the baseball season so this was billed as the “Last Play at Shea.” A documentary film should be in theaters by the end of 2009. Maybe they’ll feature Guy Fieri.