Billy Joel signed his first recording contract in 1972with the goal ofwriting and recording songs that "meant something during the time in which I lived ... and transcended that time." Records like "Piano Man," "The Stranger," "52nd Street," and "Glass House" are evidence that he's do...
The interesting thing about Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" is that it's essentially a story within a story. Two people sit with a bottle of wine and dinner, and before long they're reminiscing about their earlier days and how Brenda and Eddie's marriage sadly didn't la...
That said, appreciation does not mean blindness, and Joel himself would agree that not every song on every album catches fire (though he did light it, and we tried to fight it). A close listening to the Joel-ian canon reveals a couple of generous handfuls of greatness, forgotten cuts tha...
Mere Sang (Remix) (From "New York") ▶ Hadippa The (Remix) (From "Dil Bole Hadippa") ▶ Choomantar (Remix) (From "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan") ▶ Jazba (Remix) (From "Ladies vs Ricky Bahl") ▶ Ayaashi (Remix) (From "Badmaash Company") ▶ Kabul Fiza (Remix) (From "Kabul...
It's Just That Song ▶ Blue Moon Baby ▶ Georgia Lee Brown ▶ Give Me a Woman ▶ Get off the Road ▶ Album: Songs The Lord Taught Us Released on:1980 Number of Songs:18 TV Set - Remastered ▶ Rock On The Moon - Remastered ▶ Garbageman ▶ I Was A Teenage Werewolf -...
That song is about being in love with a 17-year-old girl. And Gene Simmons was almost 30 when he sang "Christine Sixteen." Despite the controversy surrounding a much older man obsessing about a much younger school girl (16-years-old), the song hit number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100...
“There wasn’t a female playing the way I played, or singing the songs that I sang,” she told me in 2021. “And there certainly wasn’t a Black person doing it. So there was nothing for anybody to have a reference to.”“Me Myself I” is her tribute to the joys of being a...
That song is about being in love with a 17-year-old girl. And Gene Simmons was almost 30 when he sang "Christine Sixteen." Despite the controversy surrounding a much older man obsessing about a much younger school girl (16-years-old), the song hit number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100...
Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” “Buddy Holly, 'Ben Hur,' space monkey, mafia / Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go / U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy / Chubby Checker, 'Psycho,' Belgians in the Congo” Does any song name-drop better thanBilly Joel’s “We Didn...
“Deja Vu,” where she’s fighting with her ex over a hit from 20 years before she was born. She just sang “Uptown Girl” onstage with Billy last summer. Now that’s the mark of a classic — it keeps right on telling new stories, into the future. From 1963 to 1983 to 2023, ...