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Billy Joel
10 February 2011
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RedLennon
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Any other fans of the piano man?  I have been a pretty big fan for a couple years now.

10 February 2011
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skye
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I was just thinking that I need to add more of his songs to my playlist.

Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!

10 February 2011
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PennyLane
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“Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well we're all in the mode for melody. And you've got us feeling alright.”

 

I have my Billy Joel moments. One of my earliest memories is singing to The Longest Time.

Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.

10 February 2011
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Von Bontee
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I like Billy (got his Greatest Hits and a coupla others) but I LOVE Attila! For clarification:

 

http://allmusic.com/album/attila-r990

 

GREAT album! Never mind what some know-nothing at Allmusic says.

Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.

         

10 February 2011
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Zig
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I really enjoy his early stuff. The Piano Man album is very good, with my favorite track on it being Captain Jack.

One of my all-time favorite songs is New York State of Mind.

Curse you, RedLennon! Looks like another visit to Amazon.com is imminent.

To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.

10 February 2011
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StarWisher
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I remember seeing a lot of him on MTV growing up. I still love Allentown and I still love Pressure (especially the video), but I kind of look at him as I do say, James Taylor: I don't doubt their talent, but they both don't do anything personally for me.

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." — Dr. Seuss

 

 

11 February 2011
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HerMajestyRS
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I've loved Billy Joel longer than the Beatles (my parents were college-aged in the late 70s, so they missed the whole 60s rock genre, sadly). I grew up with Billy and Billy grew up with the Beatles… And one thing I noticed rather recently was the lyrics in Piano Man…

 

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine

He gets me my drinks for free

And he's quick with a joke and he'll light up your smoke

But there's some place that he'd rather be

[…]

Now Paul is a real estate novelist

Who never had time for a wife

And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy

And probably will be for life

 a-hard-days-night-ringo-8  Coincidence? The most fun thing I've read in any of the Beatles bio was about Billy Joel watching the Ed Sullivan show (which just celebrated its anniversary!) and thinking John looked utterly bored/uninterested during the early set that was mainly Paul singing.

And in the end

the love you take

is equal to the love

you make.

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William Shears Campbell
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I love Billy Joel.  I know all his songs from Attila to River of Dreams.  I was lucky enough to see him in concert about 3 months ago.

Here | There | Everywhere

It's ya boi!  The one and only Billy Shears (AKA Paul's Replacement)

"Sometimes I wish I was just George Harrison" - John Lennon

 

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