The song Joel wrote while playing in a Los Angeles lounge has become a stadium-sized American anthem. Billy Joel20 photos He was recently praised by the president and celebrated as a Kennedy Center honoree. President Obama said, "For an artist whose songs are sung around the world, his musi...
BeforeRihanna,Billy JoelandJay-Zbecame some of the biggest names in music, they were students just like the rest of us. Without some particularly special teachers, they might not be the superstars they are today, and they all remember who first encoura...
Billy Joel, '52nd Street' (1978) Named after a '50s-era New York City jazz hot spot,52nd Streetis (appropriately enough) one of Billy Joel's most jazz-infused albums. He veers close to Steely Dan and Chicago-levels of urbane pop in the instrumentation, in the guest turn by trumpeter ...
“It really wasn’t any different from what has happened to any number of performers,” explains Caldwell, 41, who opens for Hiroshima on Friday at the Celebrity Theatre in Anaheim. “First, the label that released my album, TK Records, went bankrupt, and my contract sat on some banker’...
Thus opens Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man (2009), and a great deal does happen to title character Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg). Crises great and small plague Gopnik over th... M Skaggs - 《Middle West Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (...
Some of the most iconic roles in film and TV could have looked very different had they gone to the original casting choices. BeforeBilly Crudupbrought Stillwater singerRussell Hammondto life in the 2000 music drama, directorCameron Crowehad his eye onBrad Pitt, who was "just starting out...
(or at least what I imagine a spa would be playing). Gabriel corrals jazz drummer Billy Cobham, former Public Image Ltd. bass player Jah Wobble and onetime Prince foil Wendy Melvoin for the single “Burn You Up, Burn You Down.” The song “Forest” opens like an outtake from Gabriel’...
Listen to the tom-tom drums and the message spoken by the “Wordspinner” that opens and closes this charming adventure suitable for all age groups. The name Pocahontas, belonging to the daughter of the powerful Algonquin Chief Powhatan, means “She-Who-Likes-To-Be-Mischievous.” It’s a ...
The beloved “dimension of imagination,”The Twilight Zone, opens once again in this year’s reboot. Each star-studded episode is packed with familiar faces, including Steven Yeun, Taissa Farmiga and Kumail Nanjiani, and brilliant, blood pressure-rising storylines that range from child presidents ...
Sony Pictures Classics presents 'Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House' - Opens NY & LA 9/29 - Coming Soon To A City Near You