The title track of Don McLean’s breakthrough 1971 album American Pie was written as a tribute to the three early rock ‘n’ roll stars killed in a tragic 1959 plane crash: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson Jr.). The plane crash is now widely know...
The short answer is that Joel lost interest in putting out new music. And since he has enough hits to tour forever and draw enormous crowds, he had little incentive. “I still write music,”he toldRolling Stonein 2019.“I just don’t record it, and they’re not in song form. It’...
"High five, five/ One and only, drive you crazy/ High five, five/ Heart is bouncing, this powerful shaking/ Soar above me, take me to the top/ I don't ever wanna stop,
"At the time when I got mine, they were the latest, the greatest, the most natural ever. Now they're not. So that's why I was just like, ‘I want to get them out.’ " "I don't know that I was feeling badly; I've been pregnant for three years, so it could've been a...