Billy Joel - Piano Man (Audio)
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- In 1973, Billy Joel released his legendary 'Piano Man' album. Listen to Billy Joel perform the title track 'Piano Man'.
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Lyrics:
He says, 'Son can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet
And I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes'
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright
Billy Joel's official CZcams channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty- three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States. - Hudba
He looks nothing like a piano
😂🤣😅
very original
@@oldcowbb k
Most underrated comment
He does not
Imagine you're just chillin in a bar and the singer just starts singing about your personal life
I'd love that
pp the clown incredible comment
In front of everyone else!
Imagine all the people
@Elenhith haha Cheers
"They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone" best lyric of all time
Concordo!!!
My favorite lyric is "It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday"
“As a smile ran away from his face” is probably my favorite
@@kamaelea4060he said bill I believe this is killing me
Mine is Paul is a real estate novelist. Can you guess why 😂
This song gives me nostalgia and sadness for something I wasn't ever alive for
Facts
When my daughter wanted to see him, and couldn't get any of her friends to go, i bought tickets for his show in Cleveland. The sound of 50,000 fans singing the refrain got me going. After she passed in 2007, every time I listen to this, I go back to that evening and remember a great time with my daughter.
Cute story
@Ethan Benson Thank you!
GOD bless you. My deepest condolences.
@@kellyj4799 "cute" story. SMH
@@alexkouvolo2477 i'm sorry...
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for Davy who's still in the Navy
Ahhhhhhhhh I see
MMMMMMM
Indubitable
And probably will be for life :(
very good!! that made me laugh, well done
The old man passed away peacefully, dreaming about the better times, when he was young.
John became one of the greatest movie stars to ever exist.
Paul retired early, and got himself a good wife, they promised they’d grow old together.
Davy eventually retired, and could finally get some time with his children, even though they were older.
The waitress became one of the best politicians known to history.
The business man continued with his life, and was generally happy with it, finally getting out of what was causing him pain.
And the piano man…? Why, he became one of the most famous and most talented pianists in all of history, and still occasionally visits that very same bar all those years ago, just to sing this very song.
I like the intro, the lyrics, the whole song, it's a song that reflects someone's life.
[Good Ending]
And the piano man switched to the harmonica and lived happily ever after
The old man's happy ending is DYING? Feels like he got the short end of the stick there.
THANK YOU! I NEEDED CLOSURE
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man!"
The Piano Man: "You can't tell me who to be!" *grabs harmonica*
Lol here before this blows up and was also first like 😂
@@marymazzanti2073 i guess it didn't blow up
Ur 100th comment like
LOL
340th like
For a song called “piano man” the guy with the harmonica sure won’t shut up.
To be fair he's also the guy with the piano
From the tiktok
@@psychedelicanxiety8011 silence, tiktoker. you don’t have freedom of speech.
@@TheDiggity42 I don’t even have tiktok... someone sent it to me on insta
@@psychedelicanxiety8011 it’s getting worse
"Son can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes. But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes." best line of the song.
In '73 I was 25 & tending bar. The night Billy is singing about played out in my lounge & in many other piano bars I'm sure. There's never been a more descriptive song about the life. Every 70s piano bar had the same clientel drift in & out. Occasionally new faces would filter through the smokey dimness. Some were there to listen to the player, others talked to their friends - often over the music. I can't tell you how many times I consoled a piano player at the end of the night, when folks didn’t pay attention. There was some real talent!
Some went on to become well known, while others eventually took up some other line of work. But I got to listen over the din of the bar, while shuffling drinks to those one's who didn’t give a damn about the music, and others who were there to listen.
It was a great time for music, and a good life for a bartender who didn’t drink. I banked my tips & lived off my salary. Made good money. Bought a house & met my better half. Both of us working, me at night & my dearheart during the day, meant we relished wknds together, and bar hopping was never part of the weekend's entertainment. After 20 years, I moved into a more subdued life, away from whiskey, cigarettes & endless chatter. But it was a good time, and Piano Man described it to a tee.
Great comment. Good stuff. God bless.
What I love about this song is the fact that you can visualize it, it tells you a story. That’s real music.
Hell yea
Hell yeah
hell yea
Hell yea
Hell yeah brother. Greetings from Iraq
This song hits you differently as you get older.
Yeah I remember like 3 years ago this song being a meme
fr when I first heard this song I was like 13 and didn't really see the hype around it now I'm 19 and hits way harder now.
I'm actually 14 and this song hits me everytime i hear it, it is just magnific...
@@tainzualol4616 then imagine how hard it'll hit when you're 19
considering i heard this when i was like idk 5 and now im gonna be 20 soon and now it makes me cry yea it really does
No better talent at description than exists in this song. Billy Joel has 5 minutes to make you feel like a crusty old bartender and by God he does.
I’m Japanese boy. I listen to this song every day to study English.
Nice man
I hope your studies are successful! English is a very hard language to learn.
The harmonica opening might be one of the greatest things I've ever heard in my life.
Ive been playing it all around my school campus. I am a god to those people.
Lol I don’t think he knows this song is a meme
btw i meant i play it on my harmonica.
Very close to the music of "The Times They Are a-Changin" by DYLAN
Same here
When I get drafted for ww3 I’ll tell y’all if Davy is still in the navy
Lol, please do
Thk
Also ask him if he’ll be in there for life
Thanks, I was beginning to worry.
Bro, I seriously doubt Davy in the navy would still be alive, this is a pretty old song lol
Billy is a poet who uses imagery to weave a masterpiece. Lines like "when I wore a younger man's clothes" or "the microphone smells like a beer" are expressed in such a way that any other arrangement of words could do no justice or have such a profound effect.
Thanks professor, you made it sound really boring!
Why can't we go back in time to the old music. Back when there wasn't hip hop, pop music, rap music. Just feel-good music.
All of those genres can have feel good music, it’s based on the artists creativity.
yes they're sharing a drink that's called lonelyness, but its better than drinking alone. - man that hit me
Ricarda Götte who’s I just saw your like go up by one and it wasn’t me who liked it...
Joe Rousseau that’s kinda cute and creepy at the same time
Lil Wolf Tv honestly tho it was more creepy than cute tho
Joe Rousseau lol
Lyrics video of this masterpiece czcams.com/video/ZrNfjmtghCI/video.html
My Grandpa played this everytime when I got back home from school and both of us will sit in the backyard and him drinking coffee and me some hot chocolate. And we both talk for hours everyday. Now his gone, and I still go to the backyard and have some hot chocolate and stare at the sunset while his chair there still beside me, and I can always feel his presence being there with me, sitting down talking to me and hugging me 😢❤️
my deepest condolences for your grandpa, he must've been an amazing man
@@itsprobablyrobin he was. Thank you 🙏❤️
I am very sorry for your loss. Your grandfather sounds so nice and wonderful. God bless you and your family. ❤️😊❤️
@@marymazzanti2073 he was. Thank you ❤️🙏 God bless you too
I am crying right now❤️✨ amazing grandpa
I used to hear my late grandfather always whistling this when i was younger. I never really knew what it was, but when i heard it somewhere, it just kinda clicked with me and brought me back to a simpler, more innocent time. A time where i could promise my cancer ridden grandfather that we would eat at shimp basket when he got better without understanding that i wouldnt be able to keep that promise.
same
He's eating a shrimp basket up in heaven
Just removed my hat man...this took my breath away
I’m so sorry for your loss!
❤❤❤
I sang this song once in an Irish Pub, directly after an older gentleman had sung Hurt by Johnny Cash. I don't know why, but there was magic in that moment for me and I remember it very vividly to this day.
Song originally by Nine Inch Nails.
@@chrisrust9045the Johnny Cash version, while having the same lyrics, is played with different instruments and in a different note. So it makes sense to specify that it was Cash’s version
That's a hell of an emotional combo right there.
Billy Joel's "Piano Man", best known for its harmonica
Ironic, isn't it?
What? Here I thought it was best known for its piano! My bad. LOL!
And for that frog that jumped off the bridge...
Wonton lmao Ikr I can actually play this
Just brilliant pure brillance
I was once left in a room full of all teenage theatre kids. All we had was a keyboard and each other for about an hour. Someone started messing around on the keyboard and eventually came to this song. All 20 or so of us sang this together. Probably one of the best experiences in my life.
>theatre kids
Sounds about right
I looove this!!
"Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie star,
If I could get out of this place."
(Sounds just like theater kids to me.)
lit
I’ve had a experience like that but it was with hey Jude by the Beatles.
the lyrics are legendary. With limited words, Billy sure used very right choices to tell big, emotional stories.
"Son, can you play me a memory": Instead of an "old song", now of course, "memory" sound way more poetic but not only that. "Memory" refers to something really meaningful to this old man, while using other words such as "old song" seem to refer a simple song he'd like to listen to it again.
"I'm not really sure how it goes" Not only this says "this man forgets a song", it also telling the story that something happened. He likes this song, so why didn't he listen to it more so he can remember how it goes? The answer is, something happened, he could not have chances to listen to it more, but he calling it a memory says how much it means to him. In this part you can picture a young man had a lover, she sang a good song to him but then he had to go to war. Now as he's an old man, he want to hear the song again
"But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete" Although the man can't remember how the song sound like, he remember what it gave him. This state more the fact that this song means a lot to the old man.
"When I wore a younger man's cloth" not only telling us the memory was from when he, the old man, was young, but also help stating the person the old man used to be. When talking about cloth, it seems Billy wants to talk about some special cloth like a uniform. If it's about uniform, it seems to be talking about the military uniform.
with 4 lines, Billy Joel managed to tell us a whole story of a man's life
my man analyzing the song like a literature teacher
I love your analysis and i think its quite accurate, it just reminded me of something a teacher would say
Real💀
I used to listen to this song all the time. I bought the album with Piano Man in it and it got stolen from my desk at work. Memory is so important. With love
Fr
Never gets old. 51 years of this legendary song.
"And they're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone."
So awesome
그리고 그들은 외로움이라 부르는 술잔을 나눠 마시지만 혼자 마시는 것 보단 낫겠죠
Oh
OldSkaterGuy in the verse.... "HE says son play me a MELODY" right? ... why is it now memory! ! ! ! ??
It has always been "memory", but for people like you it's probably easier to say it's the Mandela Effect.
Who also gets the uncontrollable urge to cry whenever they hear this
Meet Billy Joel's music
@chakur25 yes
Yeah...
Grow a pair, dude.
Well, I'm not a pussy, so... Not me.
im a 14 yo, and my dad used to play this in the car all the time with me when i was a baby. he still plays it til this day and we sing together everytime it comes on. amazing song.
I believe that somewhere in the world, there are people who feel the same emotions that I feel when I listen to masterpieces like this song.
It's nine o'clock on a saturday
Regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sittin' next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin
He says: "Son can you play me a memory?"
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes
La-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da da-da
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says Bill I believe this is killing me
As a smile ran away from his face
Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place
Oh, la-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da da-da
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talkin' with Davy who's still in the navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone
Sing us the song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright
It's a pretty good crowd for a saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say man what are you doin' here?
Oh, la-la-la de-de da
La-la de-de da da-da
Sing us the song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright
Mdgoswap
Thanks
Everyone sing-a-long!
thanks for sharing the lyrics....It helps me to sing along
Thank you my guy
Billy Joel: Sing us a song, you're the piano man!
Billie Eillish: *Depressed noises*
Billie Joe Armstrong: I walk alone, I walk alone
Billie Jean: HEE HEE
At least someone's having fun in quarantine lol. That was pretty good
Putting the name Billie Eilish in proximity with legends Billy Joel and MJ is blasphemy
@@matthewlau307 I know, I just couldn't think of another Billy.
You know Billie joe is Billie eillishs idle right
Billy Idol: **dancing alone on the corner**
If my kid doesn't like Billy Joel it ain't mine
"It"😭😭
💀
I miss when music would make me picture the story being told like a great book
This song is immortal. After almost 50 years people are still coming back to it, and they will still do in 50 years time.
I can't express how beautiul this work of art sounds to me.
Holy shit you're right almost 50 years...
Wait 50 years? I’m only in highschool!
Dang, 50 years…
@@toybonniesfm - 1973! The song doesn’t even sound 49 years old though.
And the people described in it are people you could still meet nowadays at a place like that.
In 50 years we might be all dead
The more I look at the screen, the more Joel's eyes spread apart.
Wuncler Laufenbum Cornelius Ulysses Albrecht LVX same
Stop staring maybe?
take another toke and all your cares will go up in smoke
He looks totally baked
I cant even look at it now
In the 60's 70's and 80's , we used to have piano bars...dear God I miss those watering holes...
Billy Joel makes music that makes you remember what it means to be human.
He does
Piano man: “this is my song.”
Harmonica man: **puts hand on his hand** “OUR song.”
Holy Nirvana that’s a hella lot of likes 🤯
musical communism
Russia : our song
To be fair, Bill plays the Harmonica and the piano at the same time. So Piano man and Harmonica man are the same man.
Elton John: Your Song
Lmfao
Elton John: rocket man
Billy Joel: piano man
Beatles: tax man
And Tambourine man😂
Bob Dylan: Tambourine Man
bowie: starman
Also Egg man for the Beatles
Marvin gaye: Trouble man
Bread: Guitar man
I love the lines "And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the navy! And probably will be for life!" Best part of the song.
Thinking about all the exams I have, this song makes me feel better.
I once owned a bar, and I would open every single day with this song.
Why didn’t you open with the Cheers theme? 😂😂😂
i would be there everyday xD
Did you open at 9:00 on a Saturday?
@@diitrii and did the regular crowd shuffle in?
Cheers to you sir.
I can somewhat relate to this song. I got out of the marines in September 1971. When I would stay within the rural area where I grew up, there were always people I could talk to and many of my friends who were at one time or another in the service were company. If I ventured out of my small community though people would look on me as if I had come communicable disease. I would work every day but almost every night I would close down the bars. My job eventually took me to northern Missouri where I continued my drinking. Eventually I met this wonderful woman who changed my life completely. Within nine months from our first date we were married and my years of loneliness just were a bad memory. I am 74 now and she is in the nursing home with MS and dementia. I still love her and even though she is slowly leaving me I visit her everyday.
Your story goes from heart breaking to heart warming back again to heart breaking. I wish you and your wife the best. Make the most of it
@@debesgod1403 Thank you. I have no choice. You would be surprised how many husbands or wives every day visit their spouse in the nursing home.
@@robertlytle9752how have you been Rob?
my grandpa met joel before he was famous!! if you don't believe it, neither do I but I want to!!
What years is that?
@@figidor9771 i don't know. probably the 1950s when my grandpa was still a child
HAPPY DIAMOND BIRTHDAY # 75 TO BILLY JOEL. 5/09/24. Kenneth Huang.
This is a sad song but it makes me feel happy, it's weird. Love this song
+Trym Helleland it is. Listen to the lyrics
I think it's because even though it's sad, it's also about people getting together and enjoying music... even if they are just trying to escape their mundane lives.
I don't think it's sad particularly, just reflective. The people in the bar all have problems, which is sad, yes - but the song isn't about their problems, it's about how they all gather together and his music allows them to forget their problems for a while
Same, I don't know why I like it. Actually I have never heared it before, but I heared it some days ago and I'm in love with the song ❤️
Knock knock
Knock
On
heaven sdoot
One of my buddies died recently in a car crash. He was a freshman in HS, and this was one of his favorite songs. This song has so much emotion to it, and now even more. I don't even know what to say.
This song will touch you for the rest of your life. I love it (for many other reasons), but I am so very sorry for your loss. (And hope there are many happy songs that will remind you of your friend as well!)
My sincere sympathies.
それは悲しいですね･･･
ぜひともあなたはご友人の分まで長生きしてください。そして、たまにはこの曲を聴いて、ご友人との思い出に馳せてみてください。それがご友人への一番の供養になると思います。
Happy Birthday today, Billy!
Is davy still in the navy today?
Let's just say he never left.
After 45 years, he's risen to the rank of Admiral :) Still not married, though. No asked, and he didn't tell.
Probably...
Retired, with full benefits.
Zyron I was just about to say that! Looks like you beat me to the punch! You deserve more likes for your reply.
my pet fly died while listening to this song, he was so young, I will never forget that fly swatter
Omg I’m so sorry for your loss man I know it’s hard losing a pet you loved so much it’s a hard thing to get over but trust me you will be better soon😥
R.I.P. 😔 😔 😔
Are you okay man? The sadness you must be going through... I'm so sorry. Losing a pet you loved so much is so heartbreaking... Coping must be hard. 😭
@@carolh5501 I know poor guy😭
@@carolh5501 I lost a pet egg last night dropped it on the ground by accident you will be missed eggward
IT'S 2024 AND WE STILL LISTENING 🎧 TO THIS SONG BECAUSE WE LOVE ❤ IT
Great song 🎵 with awesome lyrics, facts 🎉🎉
Never tire of listening to this song, I think it’s because it’s about people’s failed hopes and dreams, loneliness and the power music has to create a common bond amongst people, something we can all relate too, just beautiful ❤️
Best kiss of my life while Billy Joel was singing this song.
Barbara Berry I didn’t know you could sum this song up but you just did
“We are all in the mood for a Melody and you got us feeling alright!” Such an awesome song. I love it, always have.
Scrolled to this comment right when he sang this part
Comet is going to hit Earth
Listened to it as I read this.
@@logundev Same!
@@user-ug2fu8mj2j still a good song 2 years later
My grandfather was an amazing harmonica player, late one night he was leaving the bar he was playing at and got struck by a bus. Miss ya gramps, this reminds me of you!
This song used to play randomly on the jukebox where my grandmother aunt her husband ®ulars Paton come every Friday & Saturday night small town I grew up Early 90s there all gone now😢 this song brings fond memories of great times and laughter.
Who else is here because they actually really like the song and not just because memes.
Edit: Holy shit yes there have been memes that used this song.
Oh totally. This is a golden piece of music
First: the memes
then: The song. It‘s a masterpiece
why not both?
Omg there is no comparison piano man was Golden,And still it’s amazing nothing else better than music.
I just decided o listen to get since I was listening to one of his other songs then as soon as I heard it I was like oh this is where that song from a meme comes from
This song has been in my playlist for as long as I can remember. today I was simply listening to it while doing my school work and I broke into tears. I've never really been one to cry at a song but just a few days ago my Uncle died of cancer, I had never been that close to him since he lived in a different state but, there's just something about this song that just makes me realize what he really meant to me. Thanks Billy Joel.
sorry for your loss :~(
They had all these great bands out back in the daze....Billy Joel had and still obtains a fantasy and mystical aura....never achieved by any other....sing. Us a. Song. Forever 😂❤❤❤😊
I always loved this song and more so now because I am currently in a halfway house in recovery from alcoholism and my son who is 11 just texted me and while we're talking he says "Dad guess what song is on in the car?" I said "What?" And he says Piano Man and it put the biggest smile on my face and made my day because he would always ask every time we would get in the car to go somewhere if I would put on Piano Man and I always would and will forever!! Thank you for that Kayden and thank you Billy Joel for such a beautiful and authentic song!!!
i bless you and your family. much love.
The piano riff at 3:27 elevates this song into greatness.
For me it's the harmonica that elevates the track. We can all agree it's a classic. ✌️
To everyone reading, live a good life knowing that the 80-90’s are still good.
In the theater program at my school we sing this in the dressing room before the show starts. It really is a special part of the night
I listen to this song the first time in a wedding when I was 7, didn’t know much besides liking the beat and the singer. Now only growing older and older I feel more about what the lyrics truly mean. I’m only 16 turning 17 and the older I get the more I understand. A true masterpiece thank you Billie Joel.
Amen, only the good die young... another stunner
Same bruv
"He says son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes,
But it's sad and its sweet and I knew it complete,
When I wore a younger mans clothes"
The most beautiful song line I've ever heard. I'm only 17 (at the time of writing this), but sometimes I feel kind of old and worn out (I'm not on drugs or anything).
Don't do meth, kids.
@@Jason35 HAHAHAHA
Play me a melody.
@@DayZeroGaming here; czcams.com/video/QwVjTlTdIDQ/video.html
Man, I got food older than you!
This song genuinely makes me cry. Anyone else?
yes lets cry 😢😂😭😥😥😅😰😪 tell me when you want to stop and we will stop
feel ya
@@wendellcotham689 😂
No, but it fills my heart with joy and amazing memories.
"And they sit at the bar an put bread in my jar, and say MANNN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE" I felt that.. gotta stay humble!!💯💯
When I first herd this song, I knew it was legendary. Today it can bring me to absolute tears. I miss the old days. I miss us all, being a human being.
For real.
My cat died in 2013 from FIP at the age of 1, this was the first song I heard after he died. Anytime anything sad happens to me, or my family, this is the song I'll play.
For my dad who i sadly lost yesterday. one of his favourites
Oh 8m so sorry that happened
Hello Harries,
Is nice meeting you here.
How are you doing?
One of my first albums, love his music.
My husband knows I'm lit when I break out in random with "SING US A SONG YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN!" Bless him for putting up with me and this great music
My brain: Do I want to listen to Bill-
My heart: SING US A SOOONG YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN
My favourite song since I was twelve years old in the 70ties.
Music and poetry at its best
昔15歳の頃クラスメートに勧告されて聴いて素晴らしかった。長い歳月を経て、それが最近NHKの土9ドラマでながれてました。（加藤シゲアキ君主演の）名曲です。
おお!
He was 24 years old, probably younger, when he wrote this. It amazes me how much he understood about life!
just shows how times have changed. life hit you harder at a younger age back then.
Wunderschöner Song
I miss you little sis. Rip. One of my earliest memories is dad holding you on his hip and me dancing on the floor (1990-1991ish). I was 3. I miss you lil sis🖤🤘🤘
I'm 16. Looking back on what short part of my life I've lived it makes me realise that I shouldn't fear what's going to happen at the end, just go with what you want to do in life and don't fear anything
I love this great 70s classic. I first heard this in Tucson Arizona when I was a junior in high school.
Literally us
The bar of life, you have people that missed out on opportunities and some that are striving towards them. I love this song for that.
The song is at its core is about time running out on people's hopes and dreams, and the already broken dreams for some. The bartender is trapped in his dead-end job, the piano player is being asked (while receiving a tip) why he is still in this dive bar (rather than recording and going on on a real tour), and that is just soul crushing to him. So the "La, da da da, da da da" is sang out of heartbreak and making the time pass quickly, but it does not work, time grinds on for these people.
I love this song, me and my grandma would always sing it together, no matter who was watching, now she's on the other side... fly high grandma, I love you
Im sorry
Been listening to this since 1973 and will do forever.
Can't wait to see him! Going to the Houston show Friday night!💕
Piano this, harmonica that, we as a society need to appreciate that bass.
いつのまにか大好きな曲の一曲になっていた、ビリージョエルの歌いっぷりが気持いいハープもいい感じで入ってくる。
“I’m sure I could be a movie star, if I could get out of this place.” This is my favorite lyric
F'N Classic , Historical, Emotional, and always Relevant.
Gosh I love this song
This past weekend I saw Billy in concert at the New Raiders Stadium in Las Vegas with 30 thousand in attendance. Thank you Thank you Billy Joel and band for a great concert and for bringing back all the memories of our youth, Loved every song and also loved to see how many 20 yr olds were at the concert and also loving all the songs and singing along. Billy your music will live for ever. Muchas Gracias for a wonderful weekend in VEGAS!!!
So he played this song? You just don't say. I guess so.
I am only 13 and remember my dad playing his music when I was only a few years old. I plan on doing the same for my kids.
They have to make a movie titled the Piano Man based on Billy Joel's career.
After hes dead.
Yesssssss
It would THE BLOCKBUSTER OF THE CENTURY!!!
Yep to be just as shitty as all the other movies that are remakes or stories from over 30 years ago
Oooh...touchy....what crept over your soul? Clearly something's holding you down.... Appreciation is not a strength of yours...
Piano man was my grandmas favorite song and she passed 10 years ago and I still listen to this song
Riding around in my mom's Toyota Corolla in 1991 listening to Billy Joel, age 4. It's a sunny day. Life is good.
*SIGH*
These songs hit a lot differently at age 36
"He said ..son can you play me a memory. Not realy sure how it goes ,but it's sad and it's sweet and i knew it complete when i wore a younger mans clothes" awesome lyrics!
Thanks dad. This song rules because I loved listening to it with you👍
My dad used to play the harmonica and sing along to this song when I was still pretty young and didn't really appreciate the purity of this and many other songs too. Arlo Guthrie was one of the other artists he was obsessed with. Specifically the 1969 Woodstock VHS. It's one of only a small number of mostly pleasant memories I have that don't include chaos.
He isn't gone yet, and despite that fact, I just can't make myself reach out to a man who gave up on me, and ultimately my mother and brothers too. I sure wasn't an easy or cooperative son though either. But I saw him stand by my brother's when they still lived at home and by the time I was the last kid left, he immediately found himself an excuse to abandon us in one of darkest times of my life. I don't know why I'm even writing this comment since it serves only to bring up the horrible memories very vividly.
Whatever though....
Not like it would make any difference.