Also ranks #15 on Old Singers You Didn't Realize Are Still Alive Dig Deeper Actors Who Have Played Hamlet And Deeper Gay Actors Who Play Straight Characters Sally Ride Photo: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Public Domain When astronaut Sally Ride passed away in 2012 at the age of 61, ...
Billy Joel was born in 1949 in the Bronx, NY. His father was a trained pianist and Joel was pushed by his mother to take lessons as a very young boy. By the time the "Piano Man" was a teenager, he had mastered the instrument and was starting various rock bands. Joel has gone on...
While his most notable role of the last few years put being gay front and center stage, actor Lee Pace was not always as forthcoming about his own sexuality. The actor, who played Joe Pitt in "Angels in America" on Broadway, came out every time he performed (as his character). It was...
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 Freddie Hubbard and in the chord cha...
A fan of Stephen Sondheim and Billy Joel (though he leans more toward Sondheim), Brown composed the score for the adaptation of “The Bridges of Madison County,” which currently is on Broadway. A big-screen version of his 2001 musical “The Last Five Years” will star Anna Kendrick this...
“I went up to the director Joel Schumacher and I had on a dressing gown and nothing underneath,” he recounts. “And I was obviously so nervous that I lost my mind for a second cause I opened my dressing gown and I said, ‘It’s a bit, is it a bit…’ Cause I had, like mo...
Billy Joel (5) All five of Billy Joel’s Grammy wins came during a three-year period from 1979 to 1981. In that time he took home Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Just the Way You Are” (1979), Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for52nd Street(...
Billy Joel, 'The Stranger' Billy Joel had been trying to make it on both coasts before he finally scored his first huge hit with his fifth album. Focused and pristine production by Phil Ramone pushed the New York singer-songwriter to try some new things, and the scope of 'The Stranger'...
It was only when Keith Moon joined us and played for that first time that it all came together. All of the sudden, it was like you’d started up a jet engine. I can’t explain exactly what he was doing. Maybe if I’d ever seen him, I would have said, “Well, he’s no good...
Billy Joel, 'The Stranger' Billy Joel had been trying to make it on both coasts before he finally scored his first huge hit with his fifth album. Focused and pristine production by Phil Ramone pushed the New York singer-songwriter to try some new things, and the scope of 'The Stranger'...