Billy Joel, legendary American singer/songwriter, plays Croke Park on Saturday, the 29th of July.

Billy Joel had a busy year in 2005 releasing a box set My Lives, performing a series of concerts at Madison Square Garden and recording a live album, 12 Gardens Live with the singer in his best form in nearly two decades.

Having wowed audiences on his sold out American tour, Billy Joel now comes to Ireland performing pop anthems including "Piano Man", "Only The Good Die Young", "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "River of Dreams" at a special performance at Croke Park.

Over the last three decades, Billy Joel has scored 33 Top 40 hits, sold 100 copies of his 16 albums and received 5 Grammy Awards as well as induction of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Having played in a number of different New York line-ups, Billy Joel broke out as a solo artist in the early '70s merging the melodies of The Beatles with Broadway classics and scoring his first big hit with "Piano Man".

Billy Joel followed up on the success of "Piano Man" with a string of hit singles like "New York State of Mind", "Just the Way You Are", "She's Always a Woman" and "Uptown Girl" and a host of hit ablums like Streetlife Serenade, The Stranger and Glass Houses.

The singer's musical evolution from his early 60's Long Island bar bands to his biggest hits to his most recent classical composition is documented in his new box set, My Lives, the first Billy Joel collection to explore the entirety of the artist's career.

A veritable treasure throve for Billy Joel fans, My Lives brings together rare demos and alternate takes from all phases of the artist's career, live performances and Joel's covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson and Leonard Cohen.

A night of classic rock anthems, Billy Joel plays Croke Park on Saturday, the 29th of July.