Details About Billy Joel That Will Leave You Empty Inside 

The last show of his I saw was several years ago at the FedEx Forum. His best that I've seen out of the six or seven times I've seen him live going back to the early 80s.

What is that background music? 🎶

cover of Hey Girl

Philadelphia Spectrum. "Glass Houses" Tour. He played so much from his previous albums. A skilled musician and great performer.

Every time he has performed at Fenway Park in Boston! We missed him terribly this year!

Wow, what an amazing concert to be at. I wish I could have seen that.

It's certainly his best.

One of the 10 best of all time.

Haven’t listened to it yet, but 52nd street one of my all time favourite albums. Will listen right after this video.

Yes, that was a very successful album. Unfortunately, it just could not beat Saturday Night Fever.

The stranger song is well written musically and lyrically. Lyrically, it describes the shadow side of our own personalities, based on Jungian psychology (focused on the subconscious). In other words, this song is a masterpiece!🎉❤

As Geo Bernard Shaw said, "It's easier to criticize than to be correct."

They would rather be deaf or getting paid to said that

I had no idea that these negative reviews existed. But I don't read reviews of musicians. I just listen to the music. Billy is a master of his trade and a true artist. I think the journals that employ music critics should actually employ musicians to do the job. Maybe then we wouldn't get these hacks that try to sound cleaver by putting down truly talented individuals.

Yeah, that's a new one to me. It seems the public regards him on the same level as Elton (much like Brian Wilson is the American complement of Paul McCartney). He's a legend for very valid reasons. Of course all legends have high and low points, the high points are very high. Regardless, his voice is incredibly and very distinctive.

Yeah, I put him right up there with The Monkees. He was every bit as good as them.

I know! I don't get that either😶

I agree!

Moi aussi! Billy is one of the greats!@@johnmaki3046

Thank you. He'll always be the Piano Man to me. ...like "She's always a woman to me".... The man has etched his soul on the scene.

He's no Bobby Rydell but he's ok.

For sure!

are you suddenly pushing 30 maybe 35? ❤

Well put. I also appreciate his honesty is deciding to stop writing because he just didn't think he could produce the sounds he used to. He worked a lifetime and people can still enjoy his live music at Madison Square (I think).

NEW SINGLE THOUGH FEB 1ST

Nothing like listening to this song whilst receiving a BJ.

My boyfriend loves that song. Once he played it for me... I do, too, now. He is a gifted songwriter!

@@TransformerzUnite Haha, well done!!! 👌🏻💋

Singer song writer. Unmatched in our time.

I don't like him, he's schmalzy. Piano Man. You can hear Joel’s contempt, both for the losers at the bar he’s left behind in his stellar schlock stardom and for the “entertainer-loser” (the proto-B.J.) who plays for them. Even the self-contempt he imputes to the “piano man” rings false. But the way he sings it is overwrought. “Only the Good Die Young” is a catchy song with humor and Billy's vocals are good on this “Captain Jack”: Loser dresses up in poseur clothes and masturbates and shoots up heroin and is an all-around phony in the eyes of the songwriter who is so, so superior to him. However, the song has a certain depth and is catchy and I enjoy the brooding. “The Entertainer”: Entertainers are phonies! Except for exquisitely self-aware entertainers like Billy, who let you in on this secret. “Say Goodbye to Hollywood.” Hollywood is phony! Who knew? God, doesn’t Billy ever get tired of showing us how phony the phonies of this phony world are? Could someone let B.J. know he’s phoning it in with all this phoniness at this point? Isn’t there something, well, a bit phony about his hysteria over phoniness? He can’t even celebrate his “New York State of Mind” . I like it. “The Stranger“: This is Billy lifting that great Beatles line about Eleanor Rigby “wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door.” You should see the heavy-handed mask featured on the expensive two-disc “legacy” reissue of “The Stranger” album. So deep! We’re all phonies hiding our true faces! Everyone wears a mask! Who woulda have known it without Billy telling us? “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”: It's not bad if you only hear it once. “She’s Always a Woman”: First, has there ever been a more blatant-or blatantly inept-case of attempted artistic theft than “She’s Always a Woman”? It’s such a lame imitation of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.” (Billy's woman “hides like a child” whereas Dylan’s “breaks just like a little girl.”) Billy's woman also: is prone to “casual lies,” “steals like a thief,” “takes care of herself,” and “carelessly cuts you and laughs …” Just find this song obnoxious. Same for "Honesty" I do like "A Matter of Trust". Seems pretty earnest and a good enough rock song and a fine video.

He said people think all his songs are autobiographical. "If they were, I'd be dead"

Hahahaha

😂

@@jonspengler5891 ???

She lost someone who could relay music to her. She lost big time ...just saying

I once sang (and played) this to a young lady I was courting - though she thought it was beautiful she didn't quite get it. Shame.

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I heard somewhere that "And So it Goes" is a favorite of Billy Joel himself.

My favorite song of his.

It's about the Long Island bark. 😎 👍

@@waynej2608 ah have wondered if he knew Harry Chapin. Likely, they'd at least met.

"actually"

No doubt

👍💯

Umm.. no

@@CM-dy6fo Ummm

I didn't know about his history either, but my respect for him is less now that I know.

Wow!

He was married to Christine Brinkley.

A lot of people have lived troubled lives.

i appreciate Billy's inspiration, to inspire us to live life to the fullest, and to Love ❤

A GREAT TALENT!

true for me too! 👍

He stayed in a B&b where we stayed in blue hill Maine when was there to get his boat built. Most cool. They came through the living room and he had a phone on his belt at a time we didn’t hv Portable phones

My Life

Love Rosa Linda's Eyes also.

Thank you for your beautiful words you shared , you make me feel pleasure of how happy and so much joy i gives you with my musics !! where are you streaming from.,?

When I was in high school, the radio stations would play a lot of Billy Joel songs. They would play about four songs per each Billy Joel album. Most singers had to settle for the radio stations playing just one of their songs per album.

Yeah...I kept waiting for that too..... weird.

That's a crazy song to 'attempt' to play on piano! Love it!

Figuratively thinking, it could never be done-takes a lifetime or more. But now, with AI comin in sTronG, almost NO ONE's gonna ever truly 'get it'. ( Y? No? lol

Thanks for your love and support all through this times, it’s been a wonderful feeling praying for my fans around the world. Though I rarely comment here on my RU-vid pages, I was attracted by the emotions in your comment. I’ll like we get along and stay in touch. Where are you streaming from.🎶🌹

She's only 15 fake Joel.