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Caesars Windsor
Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario is one of four casinos in the Detroit-Windsor area. Owned by the government of the province of Ontario (through the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation), it is operated by Harrah's Entertainment. Both the original Casino Windsor and the new expansion were designed by WZMH Architects. The casino is located on Windsor's riverfront overlooking the Detroit skyline near the Canadian end of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. The creation of this casino was a leading factor in the legalization of casino gambling in Detroit.
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Cleveland
Cleveland () is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerous canals and railroad lines. With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses have diversified into the service economy, including the financial services, insurance, legal, and healthcare sectors, though the city's population has continued to decline. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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CNBC
CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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Colosseum
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private research university in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been founded under such authority.
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Hicksville, New York
Hicksville is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 41,260 at the 2000 census. The area is served by the Hicksville Post Office and the Hicksville School District.
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Long Island
Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and two of which (Nassau and Suffolk) are mainly suburban or rural. In popular usage, the term "Long Island" generally refers only to Nassau and Suffolk counties in order to differentiate them from New York City, though all four counties on the island are part of the New York metropolitan area.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University (also referred to as SU, Syracuse, or 'Cuse) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College. Following several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was founded independent of the college in 1870. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it still maintains an affiliation with the United Methodist Church. Syracuse was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1966.
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Uniondale, New York
Uniondale is a hamlet (and census-designated place) as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 23,011 at the 2000 census.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Vienna
Vienna (; ; ) is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by population in the European Union. Vienna is host to many major international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC.
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's . Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
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Adam Guettel
Adam Guettel (, born December 16, 1964) is an American composer-lyricist of musical theater and opera . He is best known for the musical The Light in the Piazza, for which he won two Tony Awards, for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, and two Drama Desk Awards, for Best Music and Best Orchestrations.
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Alex Lacamoire
Alex Lacamoire (b. May 24, 1975) is an American music director and orchestrator, who has worked on many shows both on and off Broadway.
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Alexa Ray Joel
Alexa Ray Joel (born December 29, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
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Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. In particular, he is remembered for being the lead singer on the #1 hit single, "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Highlights of his solo career include a top ten hit, three top twenty hits, six top forty hits, fourteen Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, Five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones, a Golden Globe nomination and a People's Choice Award.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Bill Szymczyk
Bill Szymczyk (; (born February 13, 1943) is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though he retired from the music business by 1990. He re-emerged in the late 2000s, taking on select projects including the 2007 Eagles album Long Road Out of Eden and the 2008 self-titled debut of Brian Vander Ark.
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Billy Davis, Jr.
Billy Davis, Jr. (born June 26, 1938; St. Louis, Missouri) is an American musician, best known as a member of The 5th Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with I Hope We Get to Love in Time, Your Love, and ''You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show). Davis and McCoo were married in 1969 and were the main entertainers of a television program, The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. Show, in 1977. That same year, You Don't Have to Be a Star'' won a Grammy Award.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Billy Swan
Billy Lance Swan (born 12 May 1942) is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".
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Bobby Brown
Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip hop and R&B.; His second album, ''Don't Be Cruel, included popular songs such as "My Prerogative". Brown is the ex-husband of R&B; singer Whitney Houston and starred in the reality show Being Bobby Brown''.
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Bobby Kimball
Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer, best known as the longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.
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Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett (born '''Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell'''; November 8, 1944) is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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Bruce Johnston
Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942) is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band. He joined the band on April 9, 1965 after Glen Campbell (who was substituting on stage for the group's chief song writer Brian Wilson) decided to embark on a solo career. Johnston's first vocal recording with the Beach Boys was "California Girls."
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and photographer.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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Cass Dillon
Cass Dillon (May 3, 1986) is a singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York, whose first release is a song written by Billy Joel titled "Christmas in Fallujah".
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley (born February 2, 1954) is an American model best known for her three consecutive appearances on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in the late 1970's and early 1980's, for her long-running contract with CoverGirl, the longest ever of any model in history and for her marriage to musician Billy Joel.
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Crystal Taliefero
Crystal Taliefero (born 1963 in Gary, Indiana) is an American multi-instrumentalist, especially percussion and saxophone. Since 1989 she has been a touring and recording member of the Billy Joel Band. She has plans to establish the Taliefero Music Foundation.
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois (, Respell|lan-) (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson. Lanois is best known for producing, with Brian Eno, a number of albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.
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Daryl Dragon
Daryl Frank Dragon (born , Los Angeles, California) is a keyboardist, known as Captain in the successful 1970s pop musical duo Captain & Tennille, with his wife, Toni Tennille.
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David Hungate
David Hungate (b. August 5, 1948) is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto. Hungate's tracks featured the "hook" popping bassline on the single "Lowdown," and the lyrical bass fills on "Harbor Lights" and "We're All Alone."
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David Paich
David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich. With Toto, Paich has released 17 albums and sold over 30 million records.
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Diana Krall
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Don Henley
Donald Hugh "Don" Henley (born July 22, 1947; Gilmer, Texas) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful seven time Grammy Award-winning solo career. His solo hits include "Dirty Laundry", "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", and "The End of the Innocence". In 2008, he was ranked the 87th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Don Sebesky
Don Sebesky (b. December 10, 1937, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an American jazz trombonist and arranger. He is the winner of three Grammy Awards, and he also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Parade (1999) and Kiss Me, Kate (2000).
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Doug Besterman
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Duncan Sheik
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Elle Macpherson
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Ellie Greenwich
Eleanor Louise "Ellie" Greenwich (October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009) was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "Be My Baby", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Leader of the Pack", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", and "River Deep, Mountain High", among many others. She discovered Neil Diamond and sang backing vocals on several of Diamond's hit songs.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Florence LaRue
Florence LaRue is an actress, humanitarian, and Grammy award-winning singer. She is best known as the original female lead singer of The 5th Dimension.
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Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962), best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon.. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multi Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin'. He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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Glenn Frey
:Not to be confused with Glen Frey, an American former college football coach at Rowan University.
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont, LL.D (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular rock music.
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Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian-born singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Three of those fifteen songs reached #1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman."
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Hugh Padgham
Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won a string of awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year amongst them. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.
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James Brown
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Jeff Porcaro
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Jew
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Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter, 28 February 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Joe Walsh
:For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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Joel Dorn
Joel Dorn (April 7, 1942 – December 17 2007) was an American jazz and R&B; music producer and record label entrepreneur. He worked at Atlantic Records, and later founded the 32 Jazz, Label M, and Hyena Records labels. He called himself "The Masked Announcer".
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John Farrar
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John Lennon
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John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
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Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., on March 2, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi. Throughout his career, he has released two solo albums and eleven studio albums with his band which have sold over 130 million albums worldwide.
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Jonathan Tunick
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Karl Amson Joel
Karl Amson Joel (November 20, 1889 – November 4, 1982) was a German-Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer. He is the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel.
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Katie Lee Joel
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Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is the drummer for the rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to , in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
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Les Paul
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Liberty DeVitto
Liberty DeVitto (born August 8, 1950) is an American rock drummer. He is best known as the drummer for Billy Joel, but has also played with the NYC Hit Squad and has been a session drummer on recordings of other artists.
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Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, manager, and director.
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Marilyn McCoo
Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943) is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold. She is the wife of singer Billy Davis, Jr., the founder and co-member of The 5th Dimension, whom she married in 1969.
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Mark Rivera
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony (known as an EGOT) plus a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
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Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Omartian
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Michael Starobin
Michael Starobin is an orchestrator, arranger, and Musical Director, primarily for the stage and television.
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Morton Estrin
Morton Estrin, the noted American pianist, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1923. His career began in 1949 with a well-received recital at Town Hall. He studied with the noted teacher Vera Maurina-Press and others.
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Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole (born February 6, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and performer. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B; star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more pop and jazz oriented musical style in the early 1990s. She has won nine Grammy Awards. Cole has been singing since she was 5 years old.
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Neil Young
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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Norman Gimbel
Norman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film Norma Rae. During 1984 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948) is an English-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. Her music has been successful in multiple formats including pop, country and adult contemporary. She co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease which became one of the most successful films and movie soundtracks in Hollywood history.
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author and screenwriter.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
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Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector (born December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965 alone. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim.
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Quincy Jones
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Ralph Burns
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Randy Brecker
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Randy Meisner
Randy Herman Meisner (born 8 March 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, U.S.) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of Poco and the Eagles. Throughout his professional musical career, Meisner's main role has been as bassist and backing high-harmony vocalist, as both a group member and session musician.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Richard Joo
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Ronald Townson
Ronald "Ron" Townson (January 20, 1933 - August 2, 2001) was an American vocalist. He was an original member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late '60s and early '70s.
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Ronnie Spector
Veronica Yvette "Ronnie" Spector ( Bennett; born August 10, 1943) is an American rock and roll and popular music vocalist, and was the lead singer of the 1960s hit-making girl group, The Ronettes, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. She is known as the "original bad girl of rock and roll."
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
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Sarah Travis
Sarah Travis is a British orchestrator and musical supervisor for theatre and film. She received the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for the 2005 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel are an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sounds of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steve Kroft
Steve Kroft (born August 22, 1945) is an American journalist and a longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes. His investigative reporting has garnered him much acclaim, including three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, one of which was an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.
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Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957, San Fernando Valley, California) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with countless artists, released several solo albums and, as a studio session guitarist, has been involved with arranging, composing, and recording on over 1,000 albums. He is also a member of jazz fusion bands El Grupo and Los Lobotomys, both collaborations of notable sessions musicians. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music, Lukather's solo and side-project work spans many genres including rock, prog, jazz and funk.
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Steve Porcaro
Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro (born September 2, 1957, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto.
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Steven Tyler
Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948), better known as Steven Tyler, is an American singer, songwriter, and judge who is the frontman and lead singer for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is well-known for his stage acrobatics. During his high-energy performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician with two Grammy Awards to date who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50 year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific.
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Tata Güines
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Ted Sperling
Ted Sperling is a Musical Director, conductor, orchestrator, arranger, stage director and musician, primarily for the stage and concerts. He won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Orchestrations, for his work in The Light in the Piazza in 2005.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time".
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Joe Fox in ''You've Got Mail and Chuck Noland in Cast Away. Hanks won consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump''. U.S. domestic box office totals for his films exceed $3.9 billion. He is the father of actor Colin Hanks.
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Tom Kitt
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Tommy LiPuma
Tommy LiPuma (born July 5, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American music producer. In his long career, he has worked with many musicians, including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, and The Story. He has over 30 Grammy Award nominations and 3 wins, including the father-daughter duet of Natalie Cole and her father Nat King Cole for the song "Unforgettable". He produced George Benson's 1976 album ''Breezin' ''. He has also worked with The Crusaders' Joe Sample, and co-produced, with Hugh McCracken, Dr. John's City Lights (1978) and Tango Palace (1979).
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Toni Tennille
Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940, Montgomery, Alabama) is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo Captain & Tennille. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband Daryl Dragon. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Toto (band)
Toto is an American rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970's and 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut released in 1978. With the release of 1982's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV, Toto became one of the best-selling music groups of their era. They are best known for the Top 5 hits "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," and "Africa." Although their popularity in the United States diminished in the 1990s and 2000s, they continued to sell out arenas constantly internationally, only playing minimal shows in the USA.
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Twyla Tharp
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Walter Yetnikoff
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Whitney Houston
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William David Brohn
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Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
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Joel, Billy Filmography
- Finding Sandler (2013)
- The Love We Make (2011)
- The Last Play at Shea (2010)
- Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010)
- Recording: The History of Recorded Music (2010)
- The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Whole Lotta Shakin' (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Start Me Up (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live (2009)
- Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City (2009)
- Big Shot (2009)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2008)
- Super Bowl XLI (2007)
- Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (2007)
- Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven (2007)
- Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic (2006)
- Billy Joel: Live from the River of Dreams (2005)
- Billy Joel: Live from the River of Dreams (2005)
- Billy Joel: Live from the River of Dreams (2005)
- Billy Joel: Live from the River of Dreams (2005)
- CMA Red Carpet Live from NYC (2005)
- The 100 Most Memorable TV Moments (2004)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004)
- The 58th Annual Tony Awards (2004)
- 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs... Ever (2004)
- The 57th Annual Tony Awards (2003)
- The Hamptons (2002)
- Billy Joel: In His Own Words (2001)
- Die Akte Joel (2001)
- Billy Joel: The Essential Video Collection (2001)
- The Old Grey Whistle Test at 30 (2001)
- Elton John: One Night Only - Greatest Hits Live (2001)
- Billy Joel: The Essential Video Collection (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Bee Gees: This Is Where You Come In (2001)
- An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson (2001)
- America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)
- Piano Grand! A Smithsonian Celebration (2000)
- The Beatles Revolution (2000)
- SNL: 25 Years of Music (1999)
- ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
- Tony Bennett Live by Request: An All-Star Tribute (1998)
- Billy Joel: Greatest Hits Volume III (1997)
- Garth Live from Central Park (1997)
- Do the Alphabet (1996)
- We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute (1995)
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards (1994)
- The 1994 Billboard Music Awards (1994)
- The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic (1994)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Friend Like Me (1993)
- Billy Joel: Shades of Grey (1993)
- Simply Mad About the Mouse (1991)
- Walt Disney World's 20th Anniversary Celebration (1991)
- An American Saturday Night (1991)
- Billy Joel: Eye of the Storm (1990)
- Grammy Legends (1990)
- Billy Joel: Eye of the Storm (1990)
- Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium (1990)
- Super Bowl XXIII (1989)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Fun with Music (1989)
- Oliver & Company (1988)
- The 30th Annual Grammy Awards (1988)
- The Billy Joel Special (1988)
- The Making of 'Oliver & Company' (1988)
- Late Night with David Letterman: 6th Anniversary Special (1988)
- A Matter of Trust (1987)
- Billy Joel: Live in Leningrad (1987)
- A Matter of Trust (1987)
- 1986 World Series (1986)
- The 13th Annual American Music Awards (1986)
- We Are the World (1985)
- Billy Joel: Live from Long Island (1983)
- The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards (1980)
- A Tribute to the Jukebox Award Winners (1980)
- Rock Masters: Billy Joel in Concert (1978)
- Headshop (1971)
Lyrics:
- 52nd Street
- Big Shot
- Half A Mile Away
- Until The Night
- Zanzibar
- An Innocent Man
- Careless Talk
- Christie Lee
- Easy Money
- Keeping The Faith
- Leave A Tender Moment Alone
- Tell Her About It
- The Longest Time
- This Night
- A Matter Of Trust
- Baby Grand
- Code Of Silence
- Getting Closer
- Modern Woman
- Running On Ice
- Temptation
- Falling Of The Rain
- She's Got A Way
- Tomorrow Is Today
- Turn Around
- Why Judy Why
- You Can Make Me Free
- You Look So Good To Me
- All For Leyna
- I Don't Want To Be Alone
- It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
- You May Be Right
- Captain Jack
- Just The Way You Are
- Piano Man
- Say Goodbye To Hollywood
- Don't Ask Me Why
- Goodnight Saigon
- My Life
- Pressure
- The Night is Still Young
- You're Only Human (Second Wind)
- All About Soul
- And So It Goes...
- Hey Girl
- Leningrad
- LIGHT AS THE BREEZE
- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
- The Downeaster "Alexa"
- The River Of Dreams
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Cat
- Hotel St George
- Land Of Despair
- Further Than Heaven
- Country Boy
- Night After Day
- Hour Of The Wolf
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
- She's Got A Way
- You Can Make Me Free
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Why, Judy, Why?
- Falling Of The Rain
- Turn Around
- You Look So Good To Me
- Tomorrow Is Today
- Nocturne
- Got To Begin Again
- Travellin’ Prayer
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Only the Good Die Young
- Just the Way You Are
- Miami 2017
- She’s Got a Way
- Summer, Highland Falls
- Only the Good Die Young
- We Didn’t Start the Fire
- Downeaster Alexa
- Prelude / Angry Young Man
- My Life
- Summer, Highland Falls
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Zanzibar
- New York State of Mind (feat. Tony Bennett)
- Allentown
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- She's Always a Woman
- Goodnight Saigon
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- Shameless (feat. Garth Brooks)
- This Is the Time (feat. John Mayer)
- Keeping the Faith
- Travelin' Prayer
- Piano Man
- Ain't No Crime
- You're My Home
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Worse Comes to Worst
- Stop in Nevada
- If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)
- Somewhere Along the Line
- Captain Jack
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Piano Man
- The Entertainer
- New York State of Mind
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Only the Good Die Young
- My Life
- Big Shot
- You May Be Right
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood (live Attic version)
- Allentown
- Pressure
- The Longest Time
- Tell Her About It
- A Matter of Trust
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- I Go to Extremes
- The River of Dreams
- Just the Way You Are
- My Life
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- An Innocent Man
- Piano Man
- You're My Home
- Everybody Loves You Now
- The Entertainer
- Streetlife Serenader (live)
- New York State of Mind
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- She's Got a Way
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- She's Always a Woman
- Honesty
- You May Be Right
- Don't Ask Me Why
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- That's Not Her Style
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- The Downeaster "Alexa"
- I Go to Extremes
- Shameless
- Storm Front
- Leningrad
- State of Grace
- When in Rome
- And So It Goes
- Your Song
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Angry Young Man
- The Stranger
- Just the Way You Are
- Allentown
- I Go to Extremes
- My Life
- The River of Dreams
- Candle in the Wind
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Big Shot
- The Bitch Is Back
- You May Be Right
- Piano Man
- Tell Her About It
- Uptown Girl
- Piano Man
- New York State of Mind
- The River of Dreams
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Goodnight Saigon
- My Life
- She's Always a Woman
- She's Got a Way
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- An Innocent Man
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Only the Good Die Young
- All About Soul
- Honesty
- Just the Way You Are
- Worse Comes to Worst
- Prelude / Angry Young Man
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Big Shot
- All for Leyna
- Pressure
- This Is the Time
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- Prelude / Angry Young Man
- New York State of Mind
- Just the Way You Are
- She’s Got a Way
- The Entertainer
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Band Introductions
- Captain Jack
- I’ve Loved These Days
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Souvenir
- Captain Jack (live)
- The End of the World
- The Prime of Your Life
- She’s Right on Time
- Elvis Presley Blvd.
- Nobody Knows but Me
- An Innocent Man
- Christie Lee
- Easy Money
- And So It Goes
- I'll Cry Instead (live)
- Keeping the Faith (12" version)
- Modern Woman
- Baby Grand (feat. Ray Charles)
- Getting Closer (feat. Steve Winwood)
- House of Blue Light
- Money or Love
- The Times They Are a Changin' (live)
- Big Shot
- Honesty
- My Life
- Zanzibar
- Stiletto
- Rosalinda’s Eyes
- Half a Mile Away
- Until the Night
- 52nd Street
- Piano Man
- Captain Jack
- The Entertainer
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- New York State of Mind
- The Stranger
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Just the Way You Are
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Only the Good Die Young
- She's Always a Woman
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Movin’ Out
- Reverie
- Just the Way You Are
- The Longest Time
- Uptown Girl
- This Night
- Summer, Highland Falls
- Waltz (No. 1)
- We Didn’t Start the Fire
- She’s Got a Way
- The Stranger
- Elegy
- Invention in C Minor
- Angry Young Man
- Big Shot
- Big Man on Mulberry Street
- Captain Jack
- An Innocent Man
- Pressure
- Goodnight Saigon
- Air (Dublinesque)
- Shameless
- James
- The River of Dreams / Keeping the Faith / Only the Good Die Young
- I’ve Loved These Days / Scene From an Italian Restaurant (reprise)
- Opus 3. Reverie (Villa D'Este)
- Opus 2. Waltz #1 (Nunley's Carousel)
- Opus 7. Aria (Grand Canal)
- Opus 6. Invention in C Minor
- Opus 1. Soliloquy (On a Separation)
- Opus 8. Suite for Piano: I. Innamorato
- Opus 8. Suite for Piano: II. Sorbetto
- Opus 8. Suite for Piano: III. Delusion
- Opus 5. Waltz #2 (Steinway Hall)
- Opus 9. Waltz #3 (For Lola)
- Opus 4. Fantasy (Film Noir)
- Opus 10. Air (Dublinesque)
- I Go to Extremes
- Goodnight Saigon
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Big Man on Mulberry Street
- 2000 Years
- Auld Lang Syne
- River of Dreams
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Dance to the Music
- Honky Tonk Women
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- You May Be Right
- This Night
- This Is the Time
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Piano Man
- The Entertainer
- New York State of Mind
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- My Life
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Allentown
- An Innocent Man
- You're Only Human (Second Wind)
- A Matter of Trust
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- The River of Dreams
- My Life
- Big Shot
- Honesty
- You May Be Right
- It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
- She's Got a Way
- Pressure
- Allentown
- Goodnight Saigon
- Tell Her About It
- Uptown Girl
- The Longest Time
- You're Only Human (Second Wind)
- The Night Is Still Young
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Summer, Highland Falls
- All You Wanna Do Is Dance
- New York State of Mind
- James
- Prelude / Angry Young Man
- I've Loved These Days
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- Streetlife Serenader
- Los Angelenos
- The Great Suburban Showdown
- Root Beer Rag
- Roberta
- The Entertainer
- Last of the Big Time Spenders
- Weekend Song
- Souvenir
- The Mexican Connection
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- Summer, Highland Falls
- Streetlife Serenader
- Los Angelenos
- She's Got a Way
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Captain Jack
- You're My Home
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- I've Loved These Days
- Odoya
- Angry Young Man
- Honesty
- Goodnight Saigon
- Stiletto
- Big Man on Mulberry Street
- Baby Grand
- An Innocent Man
- Allentown
- A Matter of Trust
- Only the Good Die Young
- Sometimes a Fantasy
- Uptown Girl
- Big Shot
- Back in the U.S.S.R.
- The Times They Are a Changin'
- Keeping the Faith
- An Innocent Man
- A Matter of Trust
- Baby Grand (feat. Ray Charles)
- This Is the Time
- Leningrad
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- I Go to Extremes
- And So It Goes
- The Downeaster "Alexa"
- Shameless
- All About Soul (remix)
- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
- The River of Dreams
- To Make You Feel My Love
- Hey Girl
- Light as the Breeze
- Piano Man
- Captain Jack
- The Entertainer
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- New York State of Mind
- The Stranger
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Just the Way You Are
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Only the Good Die Young
- She's Always a Woman
- Shades of Grey
- The River of Dreams
- No Man's Land
- Storm Front
- I Go to Extremes
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- The Downeaster "Alexa"
- Shameless
- Only the Good Die Young
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- That's Not Her Style
- My Life
- All About Soul
- Stormfront
- I Go To Extremes
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- The Downeaster Alexa
- Pressure
- New York State Of Mind
- We Didn't Start The Fire
- That's Not Her Style
- Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
- A Matter Of Trust
- Piano Man
- Running on Ice
- This Is the Time
- A Matter of Trust
- Modern Woman
- Baby Grand (feat. Ray Charles)
- Big Man on Mulberry Street
- Temptation
- Code of Silence (feat. Cyndi Lauper)
- Getting Closer
- Allentown
- Laura
- Pressure
- Goodnight Saigon
- She's Right on Time
- A Room of Our Own
- Surprises
- Scandanavian Skies
- Where's the Orchestra?
- She's Got a Way
- You Can Make Me Free
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Why Judy Why
- Falling of the Rain
- Turn Around
- You Look So Good to Me
- Tomorrow Is Today
- Nocturne
- Got to Begin Again
- [introduction]
- Your Song
- Honesty
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Pressure
- Just the Way You Are
- I Go to Extremes
- My Life
- Candle in the Wind
- River of Dreams
- It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Allentown
- My Life
- Angry Young Man
- Piano Man
- The Stranger
- Scandinavian Skies
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Pressure
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Just the Way You Are
- It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
- Sometimes a Fantasy
- Big Shot
- You May Be Right
- Only the Good Die Young
- Miami 2017
- Somewhere Along the Line
- Summer, Highland Falls
- Piano Man
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- James
- Prelude / Angry Young Man
- New York State of Mind
- Travelin' Prayer
- Just the Way You Are
- The Entertainer
- You're My Home
- Root Beer Rag
- She's Got a Way
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- I've Loved These Days
- Captain Jack
- Worse Comes to Worst
- Ain't No Crime
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Weekend Song
- Souvenir
- Storm Front
- I Go To Extremes
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- The Downeaster 'Alexa'
- Pressure
- New York State Of Mind
- We Didn't Start The Fire
- Shout
- That's Not Her Style
- Miami 2017 / A Matter Of Trust
- Piano Man
- And So It Goes
- Goodnight Saigon
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- An Innocent Man
- The Downeaster 'Alexa'
- She'a Always a Woman
- Keeping the Faith
- The River of Dreams
- A Matter of Trust
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Big Shot
- You May Be Right
- Only the Good Die Young
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Piano Man
- And So It Goes
- It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
- Sleeping With the Television On (Bonus Track)
- You're My Home (Bonus Track)
- Cat
- Hotel St. George
- Land of Despair
- Further Than Heaven
- Country Boy
- Night After Day
- Hour of the Wolf
- 4 O'Clock in the Morning
- Get It Right the First Time
- Just the Way You Are
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- Get It Right the First Time
- Only the Good Die Young
- Just the Way You Are
- She's Always a Woman
- Untitled Demo #1
- Close to the Borderline
- Untitled Demo #2
- Everybody Has a Dream #1
- Everybody Has a Dream #2
- New York State of Mind
- James
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Summer Highland Falls
- New York State of Mind
- Souvenir
- Vienna
- Travellin' Prayer
- Worse Comes to Worst
- Somewhere Along the Line
- Where's the Revolution?
- We All Have a Cross to Bear
- Ain't No Crime
- If I Only Had the Words to Tell You
- Long Long Time
- Captain Jack
- Josephine
- Rosalinda
- Tomorrow Is Today
- Bye Bye
- Until You Come to Me
- Only a Man
- Worse Comes to Worst (alt. mix)
- You Can Make Me Free (original version)
- This Is the Time
- Getting Closer
- Baby Grand
- Modern Woman
- Big Man on Mulberry St.
- Temptation
- Running on Ice
- Zanzibar
- Big Shot
- Honesty (#1)
- Half a Mile Away
- Until the Night
- Forgiveness (Stiletto)
- Senorita (Rosalinda's Eyes)
- Lawyers & Divorces
- Honesty (#2)
- Rosalinda's Eyes
- Falling of the Rain
- Travellin' Prayer
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- She's Got a Way
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Nocturne
- Turn Around
- Intro to Band Members
- Long Long Time
- Captain Jack
- Josephine
- Rosalinda
- Tomorrow Is Today
- The Entertainer
- Vienna
- Root Beer Rag
- She's Always a Woman to Me
- I've Loved These Days
- Miami 2017
- The Ballad of Billy the Kid
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Captain Jack
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Only the Good Die Young
- Get It Right the First Time
- Souvenir
- Stormfront
- I Go to Extremes
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- The Downeaster "Alexa"
- Pressure
- New York State of Mind
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- That's Not Her Style
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
- A Matter of Trust
- Piano Man
- No Mans Land
- A Hard Day's Night
- Piano Man
- Leningrad
- Honesty
- Pressure
- My Life
- I Go to Extreme
- An Innocent Man
- Shades of Grey
- Big Shot
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- It's Still Rock 'n' Rock to Me
- You May Be Right
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Only the Good Die Young
- No Man's Land (live, 1993-05: Long Island, NY, USA)
- Blonde Over Blue (live, 1993-05: Long Island, NY, USA)
- Shades of Grey (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA, USA)
- River of Dreams (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA, USA)
- No Man's Land (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA, USA)
- Shameless (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA, USA)
- Only The Good Die Young (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA, USA)
- River of Dreams (live, 1993-10: New York, NY, USA)
- All About Soul (live, 1993-10: New York, NY, USA)
- You Got Me Hummin' (live, 1981: New York, NY, USA)
- I'll Cry Instead (live, 1981: New York, NY, USA)
- Intro
- Your Song
- Just the Way You Are
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Wasteland
- I Want Love
- Rocket Man
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Uptown Girl
- Sad Songs Say So Much
- I'm Still Standing
- Crocodile Rock
- Saturday's Night Alright for Fighting
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Prelude Angry Young Man
- Movin' Out Anthony's Song
- Allentown
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Lullabye-Goodnight My Angel
- River of Dreams+Introductions
- Take Me to the Pilot
- I Go To Extremes
- It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Uptown Girl
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Daniel
- Take Me to the Pilot
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight
- Philadelphia Freedom
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- The Bitch Is Back
- You May Be Right
- Bennie and the Jets
- Piano Man
- We Didn't Start The Fire
- Still Rock & Roll To Me
- Big Shot
- Simple Life
- The One
- Grey Seal
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Honky Cat
- Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- Uptown Girl
- I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
- I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
- New York State of Mind
- I Go To Extremes
- Don't Be Cruel
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Only The Good Die Young
- My Life
- Here Comes the Sun
- Bitch Is Back
- You May Be Right
- Bennie and the Jets
- Great Balls Of Fire
- Piano Man
- Easy Money
- An Innocent Man
- The Longest Time
- This Night
- Tell Her About It
- Uptown Girl
- Careless Talk
- Christie Lee
- Leave a Tender Moment Alone
- Keeping the Faith
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Billy Joel - Piano Man
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:42
- Published: 09 Dec 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing Piano Man. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 4421628 (C) 1985 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Piano_Man
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing Uptown Girl. (C) 1983 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Uptown_Girl
Billy Joel - The Longest Time
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing The Longest Time. (C) 1984 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_The_Longest_Time
Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:10
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing The River Of Dreams. (C) 1993 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_The_River_Of_Dreams
Billy Joel "Piano Man"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:17
- Published: 09 Mar 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Billy Joel Live"In Concert" at Tokyo Dome,Nov.2006
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Piano_Man
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:06
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing We Didn't Start The Fire. (C) 1989 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_We_Didn't_Start_The_Fire
Billy Joel - A Matter Of Trust
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:54
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing A Matter Of Trust. (C) 1986 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_A_Matter_Of_Trust
Billy Joel - The Downeaster "Alexa"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing The Downeaster "Alexa". (C) 1989 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_The_Downeaster_Alexa
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman -
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 24 Apr 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
For Dimitri! Billy Joel in Bremen, Germany - March 1978
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New York State Of Mind / Billy Joel
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:20
- Published: 01 Sep 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Billy Joel,Live at BBC,14th March 1978
http://wn.com/New_York_State_Of_Mind_Billy_Joel
Billy Joel - Honesty
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing Honesty. (C) 1978 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Honesty
Billy Joel - Keeping The Faith
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:55
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing Keeping The Faith. (C) 1983 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Keeping_The_Faith
Goodnight Saigon
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:08
- Published: 10 May 2007
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
All Rights Reserved By SONY/BMG and Billy Joel Documents from the Vietnam Era to the Billy Joel song Goodnight Saigon. This video is dedicated to the American Soldiers who gave the ulitmate sacrifice in the Vietnam War. Due to past concerns I would also like to say... If you post anything hurtful to anyone else under my video, your comment will be removed. I will not tolerate any hate under my video. Also I would also like to say that this video is dedicated to the American Soldiers who gave the ulitmate sacrifice in the Vietnam War. This video documents the lives of American Soldiers in Vietnam and it is only fitting that it is dedicated to them. I am not discriminating against anyone here. I feel that the war was started under the best intentions yet ended up to be all wrong. American Soldiers came home and were treated as villians when in reality they were just doing their jobs. And I think all who did their job in Vietnam was a hero. However, I have the upmost sympathy for the Vietnamese citizens who had to endure years of chaos and death. And I really respect their courage and dedication to their beliefs, and that is why the USA lost in Vietnam. It wasn't all because of the Anti-War movement. There are Anti-War movements during all wars. Don't get me wrong the Vietnam Era Anti-War movement did effect the outcome, but it did not spell the definite end. I lastly would like to say that I am a liberal person and a big supporter of peace, love, and tolerance. So I want to <b>...</b>
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Billy Joel - Live 1982 - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:35
- Published: 17 Jun 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY - Dec 30, 1982
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Live_1982_Scenes_From_An_Italian_Restaurant
Billy Joel- Just the Way You Are
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:48
- Published: 26 Jan 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Billy Joel is one of the best musicians of all time- and this is one of his most well-known songs. Perhaps more to come in the future :) This was taken off of his "Ultimate Collection" 2-disc set :) ~ 03-10-2009 Holy crap! Thank you for watching!- This video now has over 16000 views, thanks to you! ~ 03-17-2009 This video has over 20000 views!! Thank you guys so much!! ~ 04-02-2009-- 35000 views-- Thank you all so very much! ~ 11-09-2011-- 2476875 views. My expectations have been shattered. Thank you. :) Check out my other videos for more amazing music. Lyrics- Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair You always have my unspoken passion Although I might not seem to care I don't want clever conversation I never want to work that hard I just want someone that I can talk to I want you just the way you are. I need to know that you will always be The same old someone that I knew What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you. I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are. I don't want clever conversation I never want to work that hard I just want someone <b>...</b>
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Piano Man with Lyrics
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- Duration: 5:40
- Published: 23 Dec 2007
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Piano Man by Billy Joel with lyrics.THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO. I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR IT. ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE RESPECTED PARTIES.
http://wn.com/Piano_Man_with_Lyrics
Billy Joel - Allentown
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing Allentown. (C) 1982 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Allentown
Billy Joel - Just the way you are
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:04
- Published: 06 Apr 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Another favourite song of mine!!
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_Just_the_way_you_are
Billy Joel - Only The Good Die Young
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:51
- Published: 28 Dec 2007
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Behold, Billy Joel in his prime. Download the mp3 here: www.video2mp3.net
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Billy Joel - You May Be Right
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:54
- Published: 03 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Music video by Billy Joel performing You May Be Right. (C) 1980 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
http://wn.com/Billy_Joel_You_May_Be_Right
Sesame Street: Billy Joel And Marlee Matlin Sing Just The Way You Are
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Published: 30 Jul 2008
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
For more videos and games check out our new website at www.sesamestreet.org In this video, Billy Joel and Marlee Matlin serenade Oscar the Grouch. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
http://wn.com/Sesame_Street_Billy_Joel_And_Marlee_Matlin_Sing_Just_The_Way_You_Are
Billy Joel "My Life"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:07
- Published: 16 Jan 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Billy Joel Live"In Concert" at Tokyo Dome,Nov.2006
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Billy Joel - LIVE AT TOKYO 2006
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 118:00
- Published: 30 Dec 2011
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
BILLY JOEL WORLD TOUR LIVE AT TOKYO, JAPAN Nov 30, 2006. TRACK LIST 1. Prelude/Angry Young Man 2. My Life 3. Honesty 4. The Entertainer 5. Zanzibar 6. New York State Of Mind 7. Allentown 8. Don't Ask Me Why 9. The Stranger 10. Just The Way You Are 11. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) 12. An Innocent Man 13. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) 14. She's Always A Woman 15. I Go To Extremes 16. The River Of Dreams 17. We Didn't Start The Fire 18. Big Shot 19. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me 20. You May Be Right 21. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant 22. Piano Man
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Creative Commons / David Shankbone![Mascot Dock- Village of Patchogue. Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Acestar, Paul Simon,Johnny Ramone, Dream Theater, Debbie Gibson, Eddie Money, new-age musician John Tesh, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, folk singer Oscar Brand, Harry Chapin, De La Soul,](http://web.archive.org./web/20120927021350im_/http://cdn8.wn.com/pd/28/a6/6b66f2a52fc906bd3b8171b280af_small.jpg "Mascot Dock- Village of Patchogue. Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Acestar, Paul Simon,Johnny Ramone, Dream Theater, Debbie Gibson, Eddie Money, new-age musician John Tesh, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, folk singer Oscar Brand, Harry Chapin, De La Soul,")
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Creative Commons / David Shankbone![Bay of Stony Brook Harbor in Stony Brook, Long Island. Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benita, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Ace star, Paul Simon, Johnny Ramon, Dream](http://web.archive.org./web/20120927021350im_/http://cdn8.wn.com/pd/07/ce/4f09447442d143ce971ef6b035ad_small.jpg "Bay of Stony Brook Harbor in Stony Brook, Long Island. Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benita, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Ace star, Paul Simon, Johnny Ramon, Dream")
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![Swan River Long Island Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Acestar, Paul Simon,Johnny Ramone, Dream Theater, Debbie Gibson, Eddie Money, new-age musician John Tesh, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, folk singer Oscar Brand, Harry Chapin, De La Soul, Brooklyn Bridge, Ashanti, Dee Snider, LL Cool J, Lindsay Lohan,](http://web.archive.org./web/20120927021350/http://cdn7.wn.com/pd/cc/a1/d855c0529b0b319a81a1edac3473_medium.jpg "Swan River Long Island Notable musicians of the Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk County) music scene include; Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, godfather of punk rock[22] Lou Reed, Acestar, Paul Simon,Johnny Ramone, Dream Theater, Debbie Gibson, Eddie Money, new-age musician John Tesh, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, folk singer Oscar Brand, Harry Chapin, De La Soul, Brooklyn Bridge, Ashanti, Dee Snider, LL Cool J, Lindsay Lohan,")
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| Billy Joel | |
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 Billy Joel at the 2009 premiere of the Metropolitan Opera. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Martin Joel[1] |
| Also known as | Bill Martin |
| Born | (1949-05-09) May 9, 1949 (age 63) The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States |
| Origin | Hicksville, New York, United States |
| Genres | Rock, pop, soft rock, classical |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, pianist |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, guitar, harmonica, keyboard, accordion, organ, melodica, clavinet, percussion, harpsichord |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Labels | Columbia, Family Productions, Sony Classical |
| Associated acts | The Echoes, The Hassles, Attila, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John |
| Website | www.billyjoel.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Steinway piano[2] | |
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.[3]
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 150 million records worldwide.[4] He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame (2009). In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, with Billy Joel positioned at No. 23. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah," Joel stopped recording pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams, but he continued to tour extensively until 2010.[5]
Early life[link]
Joel was born in the Bronx[1] and raised in Hicksville, New York. His father, Howard (born Helmuth), was born in Germany, the son of German merchant and manufacturer Karl Amson Joel, who, after the advent of the Nazi regime, emigrated to Switzerland and later to the United States. Billy Joel's mother, Rosalind Nyman, was born in England to Philip and Rebecca Nyman. Both Joel's parents were Jewish. They divorced in 1960, and his father moved to Vienna, Austria. Billy has a sister, Judith Joel, and a half-brother, Alexander Joel, who is an acclaimed classical conductor in Europe and currently chief musical director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig.[6]
Joel's father was an accomplished classical pianist. Billy reluctantly began piano lessons at an early age, at his mother's insistence; his teachers included the noted American pianist Morton Estrin[7] and musician/songwriter Timothy Ford. His interest in music, rather than sports, was a source of teasing and bullying in his early years. (He has said in interviews that his piano instructor also taught ballet. Her name was Frances Neiman, and she was a Juilliard trained musician. She gave both classic piano and ballet lessons in the studio attached to the rear of her house, leading neighborhood bullies to mistakenly think he was learning to dance.)[citation needed] As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so that he would be able to defend himself. He boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning twenty-two bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after having his nose broken in his twenty-fourth boxing match.[8]
Joel attended Hicksville High School with the class of 1967. However, he did not graduate. At the time, he was helping his single mother make ends meet by playing at a piano bar, and this interfered with his school attendance.[9] After his senior year, he still was short of the total number of credits he needed to graduate. Rather than attend summer school, Joel decided to quit high school without a diploma in order to begin a career in music. Joel recounted, "I told them, 'To hell with it. If I'm not going to Columbia University, I'm going to Columbia Records and you don't need a high school diploma over there'."[10] Columbia did, in fact, become the label that eventually signed him. In 1992, he submitted essays to the school board and was awarded his diploma at Hicksville High's annual graduation ceremony, 25 years after he had left.[11]
Music career[link]
Early career[link]
Upon seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Joel decided to pursue a full-time musical career, and set about finding a local Long Island band to join. Eventually he founded the Echoes, a group that specialized in British Invasion covers. The Echoes became a popular New York attraction, which convinced him to leave high school to become a professional musician. He began playing for the Echoes when he was 14 years old.[12]
Joel began playing recording sessions with the Echoes in 1965, when he was 16 years old. Joel played piano on several recordings produced by Shadow Morton, including (as claimed by Joel, but denied by songwriter Ellie Greenwich) the Shangri-Las' Leader of the Pack,[13] as well as several records released through Kama Sutra Productions. During this time, the Echoes started to play numerous late-night shows.
Billy Joel (left) with The Hassles.
Billy Joel (left) and Jon Small (right), Attila, in 1970.
Later, in 1965, the Echoes changed their name to the Emeralds and then to the Lost Souls. For two years, Joel played sessions and performed with the Lost Souls. In 1967, he left that band to join the Hassles, a Long Island band that had signed a contract with United Artists Records. Over the next year and a half, they released The Hassles in 1967, Hour of the Wolf in 1968, and four singles, all of which failed commercially. Following The Hassles' demise in 1969, he formed the duo Attila with Hassles drummer Jon Small. Attila released their eponymous debut album in July 1970, and disbanded the following October. The reason for the group's break-up has been attributed to Joel's affair with Small's wife, Elizabeth, whom Joel eventually married.[14]
[edit] Cold Spring Harbor
Joel signed his first solo record contract with Artie Ripp's Family Productions, and subsequently recorded his first solo album. Cold Spring Harbor (a reference to the Long Island town of the same name), was released in 1971. However, Ripp mastered and released the album at the wrong speed, resulting in Joel's voice sounding a semitone too high. In addition, the onerous terms of Ripp's Family Productions contract also guaranteed Joel very little money from the sales of his albums.
Popular cuts such as "She's Got a Way" and "Everybody Loves You Now" were originally released on this album, although they did not gain much attention until released as live performances in 1981 on Songs in the Attic. Since then, they have become favorite concert numbers. Cold Spring Harbor gained a second chance on the charts in 1984, when Columbia reissued the album after slowing it down to the correct speed. The album reached #158 in the US and #95 in the UK nearly a year later.
Joel gigged locally in New York City in the fall of 1971 and moved out to Los Angeles early in 1972, adopting the stage name Bill Martin.[15] While in California he did a six month gig in The Executive Room piano bar on Wilshire Boulevard. It was there he composed his signature hit "Piano Man" about the various patrons of the lounge. Subsequently he toured with his band members (Rhys Clark on drums, Al Hertzberg on guitar, and Larry Russell on bass) until the end of June 1972 throughout the US and Puerto Rico, opening for headliners such as J. Geils Band, The Beach Boys and Taj Mahal. At the Mar y sol festival in Puerto Rico, he electrified the crowd and got a big boost for his career.[16]
In addition Philadelphia radio station WMMR-FM started playing a concert recording of Joel performing his "Captain Jack," which became an underground hit on the East Coast. Herb Gordon, an executive of Columbia Records, heard Joel's music and made his company aware of Joel's talent. Joel signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles. He lived there for three years (and has since declared that those three years were a big mistake),[17] returning to New York City in 1975.
Early Columbia years: 1973–1976[link]
Joel's experiences in Los Angeles connected him with record company executives, who bought out his contract with Ripp under the condition that the Family Productions logo be displayed alongside the Columbia logo for the next ten albums, and Family Productions would receive a 25-cent royalty on every Joel album sold. The president of CBS/Columbia Records at the time, Walter Yetnikoff, bought back the rights to Joel's songs from Artie Ripp in the late 1970s, giving the rights to the songs back to Joel as a birthday gift.[18][19] However, Yetnikoff notes in the documentary film The Last Play at Shea that he ultimately had to threaten Ripp in order to finalize the deal for the song rights. So, although Ripp continued to make money on Joel's albums, Joel at least had ownership of his songs through the help of the president of his new record label.
The stand-out track from his first album for Columbia Records, Piano Man, was the title track, which, despite only making it to #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, stands as Joel's signature song (he ends nearly all of his concerts with it).
Joel's touring band changed as well in 1973. Don Evans replaced Al Hertzberg on guitar, and Patrick McDonald took over the bass position previously held by Larry Russell, and was then replaced in late 1974 by Doug Stegmeyer, who remained with Joel until 1989. Rhys Clark returned as drummer, Tom Whitehorse on banjo and pedal steel and then Johnny Almond on sax and keyboards rounded out the band. Joel's infectious spirit and talent galvanized the band into a tight performing unit, touring the U.S. and Canada extensively and appearing on the popular music shows of the day. Joel's songwriting was now attracting more attention; Helen Reddy recorded "You're My Home" (from Piano Man) in 1974.
Joel remained in Los Angeles to write Streetlife Serenade, his second album on the Columbia label. It was around this time that Jon Troy, an old friend from the New York neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, acted as Joel's manager although he would soon be replaced by Joel's wife Elizabeth.[20] References to both suburbia and the inner city pepper the album.
The stand-out track on the album is "The Entertainer", a #34 hit in the U.S. which picks up thematically where "Piano Man" left off. Joel was upset that "Piano Man" had been significantly edited down to make it more radio-friendly, and in "The Entertainer," he refers to the edit with sarcastic lines such as "If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit, so they cut it down to 3:05", alluding to shortening of singles for radio play, as compared with the longer versions that appear on albums. Although Streetlife Serenade is often considered one of Joel's weaker albums (Joel has confirmed his distaste for the album), it nevertheless contains some notable tracks, including the title track, "Los Angelenos" and the instrumental "Root Beer Rag", which was a staple of his live set in the 1970s and was resurrected frequently in 2007 and 2008. Streetlife Serenade also marks the beginning of a more confident vocal style on Joel's part.
In late 1975, he played piano and organ on several tracks on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll all-star album.
Disenchanted with the L.A. music scene, Joel returned to New York in 1976. There he recorded Turnstiles, for which he used his own hand-picked musicians in the studio for the first time, and also adopted a more hands-on role. Songs were initially recorded at Caribou Ranch with members of Elton John's band, and produced by famed Chicago producer James William Guercio, but Joel was dissatisfied with the results. The songs were re-recorded in New York, and Joel took over, producing the album himself.
The minor hit "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" echoed the Phil Spector sound, and was covered by Ronnie Spector (in a 2008 radio interview, Joel said he does not perform "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" in his live shows anymore because it is in too high a key and "shreds" his vocal cords.) The album also featured the song "New York State of Mind", a bluesy, jazzy epic that has become one of Joel's signature songs, and which was later covered by fellow Columbia labelmates Barbra Streisand, on her 1977 Streisand Superman album, and as a duet with Tony Bennett, on his 2001 Playing with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues album. Other songs on the album include "Summer, Highland Falls", "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" and "Say Goodbye to Hollywood", which became a Top 40 hit in 1981 in a live version. Songs such as the powerful "Prelude/Angry Young Man" have become a mainstay of his concerts.
[edit] The Stranger and 52nd Street
For The Stranger, Columbia Records teamed Joel with producer Phil Ramone. The album was released in September 1977, and yielded four Top-25 hits on the Billboard charts in the US: "Just the Way You Are" (#3), "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (#17), "Only the Good Die Young" (#24), and "She's Always a Woman" (#17). Album sales exceeded Columbia's previous top-selling album, Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water,[21] and was certified multi-platinum. His first-ever Top Ten album, it reached #2 on the charts. Ramone subsequently produced every Billy Joel studio release up to Storm Front, initially released in 1989. The Stranger also featured "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", an album-oriented rock classic, which has become one of his best-known songs.
The Stranger netted Joel Grammy awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, for "Just the Way You Are", which was written as a gift to his wife Elizabeth. He received a late night phone call to his hotel room in Paris (he was on tour) in February 1979, letting him know he had won in both categories.[22]
Joel faced high expectations on his next album. 52nd Street was named after the famous street of the same name which hosted many of the world's premier jazz venues and performers throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Fans purchased over seven million copies on the strength of the hits "My Life" (#3), "Big Shot" (#14), and "Honesty" (#24). This helped 52nd Street become Joel's first #1 album. "My Life" eventually became the theme song for a new US television sitcom, Bosom Buddies, which featured actor Tom Hanks in one of his earliest roles. The album won Grammys for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and Album of the Year. 52nd Street was the first album to be released on compact disc when it went on sale alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982, in Japan.[23]
Despite the publicity photos and album cover showing Joel holding a trumpet, he does not play the instrument on the album, though two tracks on the album do feature some well-known jazz trumpeters. Freddie Hubbard plays two solos on "Zanzibar" and Jon Faddis joins Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker in the horn section for "Half a Mile Away".
In 1979, Joel traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between March 2–4, alongside Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson; Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Weather Report, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.[24] His performance is captured on Ernesto Juan Castellanos's documentary Havana Jam '79.
Early 1980s[link]
The success of his piano-driven ballads like "Just the Way You Are," "She's Always a Woman" and "Honesty" never sat well with Joel, as many critics were quick to slap the "balladeer" tag on him. With Glass Houses, he attacked the new wave popularity with aplomb and delivered several harder-edged songs custom made for the live shows in arenas and stadiums he was by then playing almost exclusively. The front cover showed Joel's real-life modern glass house. The album spent 6 weeks at #1 on the Billboard chart and yielded such hits as "You May Be Right" (used as the theme song, covered by Southside Johnny, for the CBS mid-1990s sitcom Dave's World) (#7, May 1980), "Close To The Borderline" (B-side of the "You May Be Right" single), "Don't Ask Me Why" (#19, September 1980), "Sometimes a Fantasy" (#36, November 1980) and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", which became Joel's first Billboard #1 song (for two weeks) in July 1980. "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" spent 11 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was the 7th biggest hit of 1980 according to American Top 40. Glass Houses won the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male. It would also win the American Music Award for Favorite Album, Pop/Rock category. The album's closing song, "Through The Long Night", (B-side of the "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" single) was a lullaby that featured Joel harmonizing with himself in a song he says was inspired by The Beatles' "Yes It Is."[16]
His next release, Songs in the Attic, was composed of live performances of less well-known songs from the beginning of his career. It was recorded during larger US arenas and intimate night club shows in June and July 1980. This release introduced many fans, who discovered Joel when The Stranger became a smash in 1977, to many of his earlier compositions. The album reached #8 on the Billboard chart and produced two hit singles: "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" (#17), and "She's Got a Way" (#23). It sold over 3 million copies. Though not as successful as some of his previous albums, the album was still considered a success by Joel.[16]
The next wave of Joel's career commenced with the recording of The Nylon Curtain. Joel's songwriting on this album, which is considered his most audacious and ambitious by many critics,[who?], and cited by Joel himself to the present day as his favorite of his works,[citation needed] was heavily influenced by the Beatles.
Work began on The Nylon Curtain in the fall of 1981. Joel was involved in a serious motorcycle accident on Long Island on April 15, 1982, which delayed the completion of the album a few weeks. He embarked on a brief tour in support of the album, during which his first video special, Live from Long Island, was recorded at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on December 30, 1982. It was originally broadcast on HBO in 1983 before it became available on VHS.[25]
The Nylon Curtain went to #7 on the charts, partially due to heavy airplay on MTV for the videos to the singles "Allentown" and "Pressure". "Allentown" spent six weeks at a peak position of #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of the most-played radio songs of 1982, pushing it into 1983's year-end Top 70, and making it the most successful song from The Nylon Curtain album, besting "Pressure". which peaked at #20 (where it resided for three weeks) and "Goodnight Saigon" which reached #56 on U.S. charts.[26]
[edit] Christie Brinkley, An Innocent Man, and The Bridge
The album An Innocent Man was compiled as a tribute to the rock and roll music of the 1950s and 1960s, and also resulted in Joel's second Billboard #1 hit, "Tell Her About It", which was the first single off the album in the summer of 1983. The album itself reached #4 on the charts and #2 in UK. It also boasted 6 top-30 singles, the most of any album in Joel's catalog. At the time that the album came, WCBS-FM began playing "The Longest Time" both in regular rotation and on the Doo Wop Shop. Many fans wanted this to be the next single released in the fall, but that October, "Uptown Girl", Joel's next big hit from An Innocent Man, would be released. According to numerous interviews with Joel, this song was initially written about his relationship with his then-girlfriend Elle Macpherson, but it ended up also becoming about his soon-to-be wife Christie Brinkley (both women being two of the most famous supermodels of the 1980s).[27][28] The song became a worldwide hit upon its release, #3 in the U.S. and Joel's sole #1 in the United Kingdom. Also, the James Brown-inspired song "Easy Money" would be featured in the 1983 Rodney Dangerfield film of the same name.[29]
In December the title song, "An Innocent Man", would be released as a single and would peak at #10 in the U.S. and #8 in the UK, early in 1984. That March, "The Longest Time" would finally be released as a single, peaking at #14 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. That summer, "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" would be released and hit #27 while "Keeping the Faith" would peak at #18 in January 1985. In the video for "Keeping the Faith", Christie Brinkley also plays the "redhead girl in a Chevrolet". An Innocent Man was also nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy, but lost to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Joel would participate in the USA For Africa We Are The World project in 1985, capping off a series of successful singles for Joel.
Following the success of An Innocent Man, Joel had been approached to release an album of his most successful singles. This was not the first time this topic had come up, but Joel had initially considered "Greatest Hits" albums as marking the end of one's career. This time, he agreed, and Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2 was released as a 4-sided album and 2-CD set, with the songs in sequence of when they were released. The new songs "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" and "The Night Is Still Young" were recorded and released as singles to support the album; both reached the top 40, peaking at #9 and #34, respectively.
Greatest Hits was highly successful and has since been certified double diamond by the RIAA for over 11.5 million copies (23 million units) sold. To date it is tied for the third best selling album in American music history according to the RIAA.
Coinciding with the Greatest Hits album release, Joel released a 2-volume Video Album that was a compilation of the promotional videos he had recorded from 1977 to the present time. Along with videos for the new singles off the Greatest Hits album, Joel also recorded a video for his first hit, "Piano Man", for this project.
Though it broke into the Top Ten, The Bridge was not a success in relation to some of Joel's other albums, but it yielded the hits "A Matter of Trust" and "Modern Woman" from the film Ruthless People, a dark comedy from the directors of Airplane! (both #10). In a departure from his "piano man" persona, Joel is shown in its video playing a Les Paul-autographed Gibson guitar. The ballad "This is the Time" also charted, peaking at #18, and has been a favorite on the prom circuit ever since. The reason "Modern Woman" has been left off many of Joel's compilation sets (the exception appears to be My Lives) is that he has since said in interviews he does not care for the song.[citation needed]
On November 18, 1986, an extended version of the song "Big Man On Mulberry Street" was used on a Season 3 episode of Moonlighting. The episode itself was also titled "Big Man on Mulberry Street." In a dream sequence, Maddie Hayes envisions David Addison with his ex-wife. An extra horn solo was added to the song.
The Bridge was also Joel's last album to carry the Family Productions logo, finally severing his ties with Artie Ripp. Joel has also stated in many interviews, most recently in a 2008 interview in Performing Songwriter magazine, that he does not think The Bridge is a good album.
Shortly after The Bridge tour ended in late 1987, Joel completed voice work on Disney's Oliver & Company, released in 1988, a loose adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Joel brought both his acting and musical talents to the film as Dodger. For the film, Joel recorded a song titled "Why Should I Worry?" Critics were generally positive toward the film, and pointed to Joel's acting contribution as one of its highlights, despite it being his first acting job. In interviews, Joel explained that he took the job due to his love of Disney cartoons as a child.
Trip to the Soviet Union[link]
In October 1986, Joel and his handlers started planning a trip to the Soviet Union. He became one of the first American rock acts to play there since the Berlin Wall went up, a fact not lost on history buff Joel.[30] There were live performances at indoor arenas in Moscow, Leningrad and Tbilisi. Joel and his family (including young daughter Alexa) and his full touring band made the trip in August 1987. The entourage was filmed for television and video to offset the cost of the trip, and the concerts were simulcast on radio around the world.
Most of that audience took a long while to warm up to Joel's energetic show, something that never had happened in other countries he had performed in. According to Joel, each time the fans were hit with the bright lights, anybody who seemed to be enjoying themselves froze. In addition, people who were "overreacting" were removed by security.[31]
The album КОНЦЕРТ (Russian for "Concert") was released in October 1987. Singer Peter Hewlitt was brought in to hit the high notes on his most vocally challenging songs, like "An Innocent Man." Joel also did versions of The Beatles' classic "Back in the U.S.S.R." and Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'". It has been estimated that Joel lost more than $1 million of his own money on the trip and concerts, but he has said the goodwill he was shown there was well worth it.[16]
[edit] Storm Front and River of Dreams
The release of the album Storm Front coincided with major changes in Joel's career and inaugurated a period of serious upheaval in his business affairs. In August 1989, just before the album was released, Joel fired his manager (and former brother-in-law) Frank Weber after an audit revealed major discrepancies in Weber's accounting. Joel subsequently sued Weber for $90 million, claiming fraud and breach of fiduciary duty and in January 1990 he was awarded $2 million in a partial judgement against Weber; in April, the court dismissed a $30 million countersuit filed by Weber.[32]
The first single for the album "We Didn't Start the Fire", was released in September 1989 and it became Joel's third and most recent US #1 hit, spending two weeks at the top; it was also Billboard's second-last #1 single of the 1980s. Storm Front was released in October, and it eventually became Joel's first #1 album since Glass Houses, nine years earlier. Storm Front was Joel's first album since Turnstiles to be recorded without Phil Ramone as producer. For this album, he wanted a new sound, and worked with Mick Jones of Foreigner fame. Joel also revamped his backing band, firing everyone, save drummer Liberty DeVitto, guitarist David Brown, and saxophone player Mark Rivera, and bringing in new faces, including talented multi-instrumentalist Crystal Taliefero. Storm Front's second single, "I Go to Extremes" made it to #6 in early 1990. The album was also notable for its song "Leningrad", written after Joel met a clown in the Soviet city of that name during his tour in 1987, and "The Downeaster Alexa", written to underscore the plight of fishermen on Long Island who are barely able to make ends meet. Another well-known single from the album is the ballad "And So It Goes" (#37 in late 1990). The song was originally written in 1983, around the time Joel was writing songs for An Innocent Man; but "And So It Goes" did not fit that album's retro theme, so it was held back until Storm Front. Joel said in a 1996 Masterclass session in Pittsburgh that Storm Front was a turbulent album and that "And So It Goes," as the last song on the album, portrayed the calm and tranquility that often follows a violent thunderstorm.
In the summer of 1992, Joel filed another $90 million lawsuit against his former lawyer Allen Grubman, alleging a wide range of offenses including fraud, breach of fiduciary responsibility, malpractice and breach of contract[33] but the case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.[34]
Joel started work on River of Dreams in 1992 and finished the album in early 1993. Its cover art was a colorful painting by Christie Brinkley that was a series of scenes from each of the songs on the album. The eponymous first single was the last top 10 hit Joel has penned to date, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 & ranking at #21 on Billboard's 1993 year-end Hot 100 chart. In addition to the title track, the album includes the hits "All About Soul" (with Color Me Badd on backing vocals) and "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)", written for his daughter, Alexa. A radio remix version of "All About Soul" can be found on The Essential Billy Joel (2001), and a demo version appears on My Lives (2005). The song "The Great Wall of China" was written about his ex-manager Frank Weber and was a regular in the setlist for Joel's 2006 tour. "2000 Years" was prominent in the millennium concert at Madison Square Garden, December 31, 1999, and "Famous Last Words" closed the book on Joel's pop songwriting for more than a decade.
1994–2007[link]
On August 25, 1994, Joel and second wife Christie Brinkley divorced. On December 31, 1999, Joel performed at New York's Madison Square Garden. At the time, Joel said that it would be his last concert. The concert (dubbed The Night of the 2000 Years) ran for close to four hours and was later released as 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert.
1997's "To Make You Feel My Love" and "Hey Girl" both charted from Joel's Greatest Hits Volume III album. Joel wrote and recorded the song "Shameless" that was later covered by Garth Brooks and reached number 1 on Billboard's country charts. Joel performed with Brooks during his Central Park concert in 1997 with an estimated 980,000 people in attendance, the largest audience to attend a U.S. concert.[citation needed] To add on to his achievements Joel was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 2001, Joel released Fantasies & Delusions, a collection of classical piano pieces. All were composed by Joel and performed by Richard Joo. Joel often uses bits of these songs as interludes in live performances, and some of them are part of the score for the hit show Movin' Out. The album topped the classical charts at #1. Joel performed "New York State of Mind" live on September 21, 2001, as part of the America: A Tribute to Heroes benefit concert, and on October 20, 2001, along with "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)", at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden. That night, he also performed "Your Song" with Elton John.
In 2005, Columbia released a box set, My Lives, which is largely a compilation of demos, b-sides, live/alternate versions and even a few Top 40 hits. The compilation also includes the Umixit software, in which people can remix "Zanzibar", "Only the Good Die Young", "Keepin' The Faith", and live versions of "I Go to Extremes" and "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" with their PC. Also, a DVD of a show from the River of Dreams tour is included.
On January 7, 2006, Joel began a tour across the United States. Having not written, or at least released, any new songs in 13 years, he featured a sampling of songs from throughout his career, including major hits as well as obscure tunes like "Zanzibar" and "All for Leyna". His tour included an unprecedented 12 sold-out concerts over several months at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The singer's stint of 12 shows at Madison Square Garden broke a previous record set by New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, who played 10 sold-out shows at the same arena. The record earned Joel the first retired number (12) in the arena owned by a non-athlete. This honor has also been given to Joel at the Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia) (formerly the Wachovia Center) in Philadelphia where a banner in the colors of the Philadelphia Flyers is hung honoring Joel's 46 Philadelphia sold-out shows. He also had a banner raised in his honor for being the highest grossing act in the history of the Times Union Center (formerly the Knickerbocker Arena and Pepsi Arena) in Albany, New York. This honor was given to him as part of the April 17, 2007, show he did there. On June 13, 2006, Columbia released 12 Gardens Live, a double album containing 32 live recordings from a collection of the 12 different shows at Madison Square Garden during Joel's 2006 tour.
Joel visited the United Kingdom and Ireland for the first time in many years as part of the European leg of his 2006 tour. On July 31, 2006, he performed a free concert in Rome, with the Colosseum as the backdrop. Organizers estimated 500,000 people turned out for the concert, which was opened by Bryan Adams.[citation needed]
Joel toured South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii in late 2006, and subsequently toured the Southeastern United States in February and March 2007 before hitting the Midwest in the spring of 2007. On January 3 of that year, news was leaked to the New York Post that Billy had recorded a new song with lyrics—this being the first new song with lyrics he'd written in almost 14 years.[35] The song, titled "All My Life", was Joel's newest single (with second track "You're My Home", live from Madison Square Garden 2006 tour) and was released into stores on February 27, 2007.[36] On February 4, Joel sang the national anthem for Super Bowl XLI, becoming the first to sing the national anthem twice at a Super Bowl. and on April 17, 2007, Joel was honored in Albany, New York, for his ninth concert at the Times Union Center. He is now holding the highest box office attendance of any artist to play at the arena. A banner was raised in his honor marking this achievement.
On December 1, 2007, Joel premiered his new song "Christmas in Fallujah."[37] The song was performed by Cass Dillon, a new Long Island based musician, as Joel felt it should be sung by someone in a soldier's age range. The track was dedicated to servicemen based in Iraq. Joel wrote it in September 2007 after reading numerous letters sent to him from American soldiers in Iraq. "Christmas in Fallujah" is only the second pop/rock song released by Joel since 1993's River of Dreams. Proceeds from the song benefitted the Homes For Our Troops foundation.
2008–present[link]
On January 26, 2008, Joel performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra celebrating the 151st anniversary of the Academy of Music. Joel premiered his new classical piece titled, "Waltz No. 2 (Steinway Hall)". He also played many of his less well-known pieces with full orchestral backing, including the rarely performed Nylon Curtain songs "Scandinavian Skies" and "Where's the Orchestra?".
On March 10, 2008, Joel inducted his friend John Mellencamp into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. During his induction speech, Joel said the following to Mellencamp:
| “ | Don’t let this club membership change you, John. Stay ornery, stay mean. We need you to be pissed off, and restless, because no matter what they tell us—we know, this country is going to hell in a handcart. This country’s been hijacked. You know it and I know it. People are worried. People are scared, and people are angry. People need to hear a voice like yours that’s out there to echo the discontent that’s out there in the heartland. They need to hear stories about it. [Audience applauds] They need to hear stories about frustration, alienation and desperation. They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do, in the small towns and in the big cities. They need to hear it. And it doesn’t matter if they hear it on a jukebox, in the local gin mill, or in a goddamn truck commercial, because they ain’t gonna hear it on the radio anymore. They don’t care how they hear it, as long as they hear it good and loud and clear the way you’ve always been saying it all along. You’re right, John, this is still our country. | ” |
Joel's staying power as a touring act continues to the present day. He sold out 10 concerts at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut from May to July 2008. Mohegan Sun honored him with a banner displaying his name and the number 10 to hang in the arena. On June 19, 2008, he played a concert at the grand re-opening of Caesars Windsor (formerly Casino Windsor) in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to an invite-only crowd for Casino VIPs. His mood was light, and joke-filled, even introducing himself as "Billy Joel's dad" and stating "you guys overpaid to see a fat bald guy." He also admitted that Canadian folk-pop musician Gordon Lightfoot was the musical inspiration for "She's Always A Woman".[38]
On July 16, 2008, and July 18, 2008, Joel played the final concerts at Shea Stadium before its demolition. His guests included Tony Bennett, Don Henley, John Mayer, John Mellencamp, Steven Tyler, Roger Daltrey, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney. McCartney ended the show with a reference to his own performance there with the Beatles in 1965, the first major stadium concert of the rock and roll industry.[39] The concerts were featured in the 2010 documentary film Last Play at Shea. The film was released on DVD on February 8, 2011. The CD and DVD of the show, Live at Shea Stadium were released on March 8, 2011.
On December 11, 2008, Joel recorded his own rendition of "Christmas in Fallujah" during a concert at Acer Arena in Sydney and released it as a live single in Australia only. It is the only official release of Joel performing "Christmas in Fallujah", as Cass Dillon sang on the 2007 studio recording and the handful of times the song was played live in 2007. Joel sang the song throughout his December 2008 tour of Australia.
On May 19, 2009, Joel's former drummer, Liberty DeVitto, filed a lawsuit in NYC claiming Joel and Sony Music owed DeVitto over 10 years of royalty payments. DeVitto has never been given songwriting credit on any of Joel's songs, but he claims that he helped write some of them.[40] In April 2010, it was announced that Joel and DeVitto amicably resolved the lawsuit.[41]
2011 re-releases[link]
2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Joel's first album, Cold Spring Harbor. According to Billy Joel's website, in commemoration of this anniversary, "Columbia/Legacy Recordings will celebrate the occasion with a definitive reissue project of newly restored and expanded Legacy editions of the complete Billy Joel catalog, newly curated collections of rarities from the vaults, previously unavailable studio tracks and live performances, home video releases and more."[42] The album Piano Man was re-released in a 2-disc Legacy edition in November 2011.[42]
Face-to-Face tours[link]
Beginning in 1994, Joel toured extensively with Elton John on a series of "Face to Face" tours, making them the longest running and most successful concert tandem in pop music history.[43] During these shows, the two have played their own songs, each other's songs and performed duets. They grossed over US $46 million in just 24 dates in their sold out[44] 2003 tour. Joel and John resumed the Face to Face tour in March 2009[44] and it ended again, at least for the time being, in March 2010 in Albany, NY at the Times Union Center. In February 2010, Joel denied rumors in the trade press that he canceled a summer 2010 leg of the tour, claiming there were never any dates booked and that he intended to take the year off.[45] Joel told Rolling Stone magazine: "We’ll probably pick it up again. It’s always fun playing with him."
Other ventures[link]
In 1996, Joel merged his long-held love of boating[46] with his desire for a second career. He formed, with Long Island boating businessman Peter Needham, the Long Island Boat Company.[47]
In November 2010, Joel opened a shop on Oyster Bay, Long Island to manufacture custom-made, retro-styled motorcycles and accessories.[48]
On March 22, 2011, Joel, as part of a fund raising event for impoverished children in the United States, performed with some of today's top teen artists, such as Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Rebecca Black. He performed "Summer Highland Falls" with Justin Bieber as a cameo.[citation needed]
In 2011, Joel announced that he was releasing an autobiography that he had written with Fred Schruers, titled The Book of Joel: A Memoir. The book was originally going to be released in June 2011, but in March 2011 Joel decided against publishing the book and officially cancelled his deal with HarperCollins. Rolling Stone noted, "HarperCollins acquired the book project for $3 million in 2008. [However,] Joel is expected to return his advance on that sum to the publisher."[49] According to Billboard, "the HarperCollins book was billed as an 'emotional ride' that would detail the music legend's failed marriage to Christie Brinkley, as well as his battles with substance abuse."[50] In explaining his decision to cancel the book's release, Joel stated, "It took working on writing a book to make me realize that I'm not all that interested in talking about the past, and that the best expression of my life and its ups and downs has been and remains my music."[51]
Personal life[link]
Marriages, relationships, and family[link]
Joel married his business manager, Elizabeth Weber Small, on September 5, 1973. She was the former wife of his music partner, Jon Small, in the short-lived duo Attila. They divorced on July 20, 1982.
Joel mentioned in a television interview on the UK's Channel Five that he had dated Elle Macpherson in the 1980s prior to his marriage to Christie Brinkley. Joel has also said that the songs "This Night" and "And So It Goes" were written about his relationship with Macpherson.[52]
Joel married Christie Brinkley on March 23, 1985. Their daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was born December 29, 1985.[53][54] Alexa was given the middle name of Ray after Ray Charles, one of Joel's musical idols.[55] Joel and Brinkley divorced on August 25, 1994, although the couple remain friendly.
On October 2, 2004, Joel married 23-year-old Katie Lee. At the time of the wedding, Joel was 55. Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray, then 18, served as maid-of-honor. Joel's second wife, Christie Brinkley, attended the union and gave the couple her blessing. Lee works as a restaurant correspondent for the PBS show, George Hirsch: Living it Up!. In 2006, Katie Lee hosted Bravo's Top Chef. She did not return for a second season, instead going on tour with her husband. She then began writing a weekly column in Hamptons magazine, and became a field correspondent for the entertainment television show Extra. On June 17, 2009, both confirmed that they had split after five years of marriage.[56]
Depression[link]
Joel battled depression for many years. In 1970, a career downturn and personal problems aggravated his condition. He left a suicide note (which inspired the lyrics to "Tomorrow Is Today") and attempted to commit suicide by drinking furniture polish, saying later, "I drank furniture polish. It looked tastier than bleach."[16] His drummer assistant, Jon Small, rushed him to the hospital. Joel checked into Meadowbrook Hospital, where he was put on suicide watch and received treatment for depression.[57] Joel later recorded "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" as a message to help prevent teen suicide.
Substance abuse treatment[link]
In 2002, Joel entered Silver Hill Hospital, a substance abuse and psychiatric center in New Canaan, Connecticut. In March 2005, he checked into the Betty Ford Center,[58] where he spent 30 days for the treatment of alcohol-related problems.[59]
Politics[link]
Although Joel has donated money to Democratic candidates running for office,[60] he has never publicly affiliated himself with the Democratic Party. Although he isn't known for publicly endorsing political candidates, he did play a benefit with Bruce Springsteen to raise money for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008.[61] He has also played at benefit concerts that have helped raise funds for political causes. However, Joel has said about musicians endorsing political candidates, "People who pay for your tickets, I don't think they want to hear who you're going to vote for and how you think they should vote."[62]
Religion[link]
Joel was born to non-observant Jewish parents and considers himself a cultural Jew.
| “ | My parents were both from Jewish families. I was not brought up Jewish in any religious way. My circumcision was as Jewish as they got. I used to go to Roman Catholic church with my friends, and when I was 11, I got baptized in a Church of Christ in Hicksville. I’m a cultural Jew. I like the Lower East Side humor, the food. I think the Yiddish language is terrifically expressive. Does that make me a complete Jew or a partial Jew? I’m not really sure.[63] | ” |
During a 2010 interview on The Howard Stern Show, Joel referred to himself as an atheist.[64]
Discography[link]
Main article: Billy Joel discography
Band[link]
- Further information: Billy Joel Band
Awards and achievements[link]
Despite having never graduated from high school because of a missed exam,[65] Joel has been presented with multiple honorary doctorates:
- Doctor of Humane Letters from Fairfield University (1991)
- Doctor of Music from Berklee College of Music (1993)
- Doctor of Humane Letters from Hofstra University (1997)
- Doctor of Music from Southampton College (2000)
- Doctor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University (2006)[66]
- Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music (2008)
His high school diploma was finally awarded 25 years after he left high school by the school board.
Joel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio in 1999. Joel was on the site selection committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board. Seven members of the committee voted for San Francisco and seven voted for Cleveland, Ohio, this was a tied vote so Billy Joel was the tie breaking vote, which gave Cleveland the hall in 1986.
Joel was also named MusiCares Person of the Year for 2002,[67] an award given each year at the same time as the Grammy Awards. At the dinner honoring Joel, various artists performed versions of his songs including Nelly Furtado, Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi, Diana Krall, Rob Thomas and Natalie Cole. He was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006. In 2005, Joel received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Joel has banners in the rafters of the Times Union Center, Nassau Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT, Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, and Hartford Civic Center in Hartford. (Joel is erroneously cited as the first artist to perform a concert at Yankee Stadium in New York City; The Isley Brothers first performed there in 1969, and the Latin supergroup, The Fania All-Stars played and recorded live albums at the stadium during the 1970s.)
He has also sponsored the Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series at Syracuse University.[68]
Joel is the only performing artist to have played both Yankee and Shea Stadiums, as well as Giants Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
On December 12, 2011 Joel became the first non classical musician honored with a portrait in Steinway Hall.[69]
Media performances[link]
- Has released multiple tour videos and compilation albums
- Has been featured in multiple television documentaries and specials
- The Midnight Special (1975) (Television) (Sang "Travelin' Prayer" and "The Ballad of Billy the Kid")
- The Mike Douglas Show (1976) (Television)
- Saturday Night Live in 1978, 1981, 1989, 1993
- The Old Grey Whistle Test (1978) (London, England) (Television)
- Musikladen (1978) (German television concert)
- 20/20 (1980) (Television)
- Multiple appearances on MTV
- Today (June 1984) Introduces music video for "The Longest Time."
- Late Night with David Letterman in 1986 and 1989, Late Show with David Letterman in 1993 (first musical guest on the show[citation needed])
- Oliver & Company (1988) (Provided both the voice and singing voice for the character Dodger in the Disney full-length animated feature.)
- Sesame Street (1988) (Sang "Just the Way You Are" to Oscar the Grouch, and "The Alphabet Song" with the kids)
- During the 1994 Grammy Award Show, Joel extended his performance of "The River of Dreams" by stopping the song partway through, looking at the celebrity audience with a grin while pretending to check his watch and saying, "valuable advertising time going by...dollars...dollars...dollars..." which was met with laughter from the audience. He then resumed playing the song.
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1997) (Television)
- Behind the Music (1997) (Television)
- VH1 Storytellers (1997) and VH1 Video Time Line (1998)
- 60 Minutes (April 26, 1998) Interviewed by Steve Kroft.
- Inside the Actor's Studio (1999) (Bravo Network)
- Mad About You: "Murray at the Dog Show" (1999) (NBC Television) (Appeared as himself; wrote the music for the song "Lullabye For You" which was featured in the episode. Paul Reiser wrote the lyrics.)
- Piano Grand! A Smithsonian Celebration (2000) (Joel served as host and performer; aired on PBS; released on DVD)
- Performed the national anthem at multiple sporting events, and was the first to sing it at two Super Bowls[citation needed]
- America: A Tribute To Heroes and The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Movin' Out (2002), is a musical based on twenty-four Billy Joel songs which was a smash hit on Broadway from 2002 to 2005 (last Broadway show was on December 11, 2005). Joel was composer, lyricist, and orchestrator and won a Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. The musical is really a dance performance choreographed by famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, with Joel's songs sung by Michael Cavanaugh.
- The 2003 Tony Awards (Television) (Performed "New York State of Mind")
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2005) (Television) (Performed "Miami 2017" and "Only the Good Die Young")
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2005) (NBC) (Performed "Everybody Loves You Now" and "Vienna")
- The Today Show in 2005 and 2006
- The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (2006) (CNBC)
- American Chopper (2006) ("The Billy Joel Bike") (Television, DVD)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (March 24, 2008) (Appeared with wife, Katie, and performed "Only the Good Die Young")
- The South Bank Show (July 13, 2008) (Joel discussed his career)
- The Howard Stern Show (November 16, 2010) (Sirius XM) (Interview and musical performance)
See also[link]
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| Name | Joel, Billy |
| Alternative names | Joel, William Joseph Martin |
| Short description | Singer, songwriter, pianist |
| Date of birth | May 9, 1949 |
| Place of birth | Bronx, New York, United States |
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