THE BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID (Live)•Elio Pace/Billy Joel's Original Band•SIGMA REUNION•Official Video

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LONG LONG TIME • THE SIGMA REUNION • LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY

starring

LARRY RUSSELL • RHYS CLARK • DON EVANS
ELIO PACE • DAVID CLARK • KENNY INGRAM

THE HISTORIC REUNION OF BILLY JOEL’S 1971-72 STUDIO AND TOURING BAND

RELEASED FRIDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2023

“You need to know about this band who started with Billy back in 1971, because it’s not that history was written wrong, it just, it wasn’t written.
So, we’re here to write it.”
– Larry Russell, 22 September 2013

In early 1972, only a few months into Billy Joel’s debut tour of the US, Philadelphia radio station, WMMR, invited Billy and his 3-piece band to their Sigma Sound Studios to perform a set, live on air, as part of a series of radio shows featuring unknown artists. It was during this radio show that Billy and the band performed one of his new songs, “Captain Jack” as part of the set. The show was taped, and DJs at WMMR started to play this live version of “Captain Jack” on their radio shows: it became the most requested song in WMMR’s history. The excitement at the station, generated by the song and the young, unknown singer-songwriter, eventually reached Clive Davis at Columbia Records, who signed Billy Joel to the label.

This electrifying live concert movie captures the reunion, 41 years later, of bassist, Larry Russell, (from that original 1971-72 touring band), drummer, Rhys Clark, (also in that original 1971-72 touring band and who also played on Billy Joel's debut album, Cold Spring Harbor), and guitarist, Don Evans, who also played on that first Billy Joel's solo album.

Recorded live at the iconic Greenwich Village music club, The Bitter End, on Sunday, 22 September 2013, and recreating Billy Joel's breakthrough Sigma concert from April 1972, Elio Pace from the UK and David Clark from the USA "fill Billy Joel's shoes" with six sensational performances each, whilst 15-year old, Kenny Ingram from Canada proves the incredible reach of Billy Joel's music with two magnificent performances.

Exclusively available from https://www.eliopace.com this historic event was released on DVD on Friday, 22 September 2023 – exactly 10 years TO THE DAY that the Sigma reunion took place at The Bitter End in New York City.

WORDS & MUSIC BY BILLY JOEL

Larry Russell - Bass
Rhys Clark - Drums
Don Evans - Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Elio Pace - Lead Vocals, Piano and Harmonica
David Clark - Lead Vocals and Piano
Kenny Ingram - Lead Vocals and Piano

MUSIC PRODUCED BY ELIO PACE
Audio edited by Elio Pace
Mixed by Tony Draper
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering

DIRECTED AND EDITED BY PETER THORP
For bigSMALL TV
Assistant Directing by Amy Rhiannon Worth
Colouring by Luke Kearney
Produced by Steve Tottingham
Executive Producer: Elio Pace

Video Mastering by Fabian Peters

Cameras Operated by Dusan Sekulovic and the team at sekulovic.com
Additional Footage by Phil Fiumano of NYRocksTV and Matt Harnick

Photography by Matt Harnick
Additional photography by Sandra Bage, Angela Cave, Matt Daniel-Baker
Cover design by Ste Turner

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