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"Piano Man" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. First released as a single in the US on November 2, 1973, it was included on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man . The song is sung from the point of view of a piano player at a bar, describing the patrons.
Stanley Harper (né Stanley Theodore Wisser; 2 September 1921 – 29 June 2016) was an American virtuoso classical harmonica artist, arranger, and composer. [1] [2] He died June 29, 2016, in a home for the elderly in New Jersey.
Piano Man is the second studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel, released on November 14, 1973, by Columbia Records. [8] The album emerged from legal difficulties with Joel's former label, Family Productions, and ultimately became his first breakthrough album.
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Billy Joel knows all about an increasingly popular fan theory that suggests two of his "Piano Man" song characters are gay. And, the Grammy winner understand why fans think that. In the song ...
A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, he "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century." [ 1 ] In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones , [ 2 ] with whom he won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song ...
Memorial tablet to Larry Adler, Golders Green Crematorium. Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 [1] – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player and film composer. . Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benja
An expanded two-CD version of Back to the Roots now includes both the original and later remixed versions of the tracks. Besides Mayall, who sang and played piano, harmonica and guitar, the musicians who recorded the original tracks were: Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel and Jerry McGee on guitars; Larry Taylor and Steven Thompson on bass;