Billy Joel - It's still rock and roll to me

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Music and Movies

 

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Letitia V

 

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September 22, 2013

 

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University

 

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A

 

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He started piano at age four, and by age sixteen he had already been in three bands. In the 70s, working at this point as a solo artist, Joel released his first recording Cold Spring Harbor, and unfortunately signed a contract with his producer, Artie Ripp, which gave away most of his rights and his royalties for a time period of fifteen years...
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The album did not do well anyway, and a dispirited Joel began to work in LA as a lounge pianist. Joel’s first top 40 song, “Piano Man,” describes this experience: “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?’” He describes the scene and all the regulars, in particular how they all have aspirations, but cannot seem to break out of their current traps...
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