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Joel wrote "Captain Jack" in late 1971, [2] [3] while sitting in his apartment in Oyster Bay, Long Island, looking out the window, trying to find inspiration for a song. Across the street was a housing project, and he observed suburban teenagers going into the project and obtaining heroin from a dealer known as "Captain Jack". [4] "
In an interview, Joel stated that the lyrics to the song "James" referred to various different people he knew in real life, with the title character being a "composite" of those people. [3] In the song " Prelude/Angry Young Man ", Joel opens and closes the song rapidly hammering the piano, which was meant to simulate the drum part in the song ...
"Dre Day" was a diss track targeting mainly Dre's former groupmate Eazy-E, who led their onetime rap group N.W.A and who, along with N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller, owned N.W.A's record label, Ruthless Records. In "Dre Day" and in its music video, which accuse Eazy of cheating N.W.A's artists, Dre and Snoop degrade and menace him.
Joel’s last single, “All My Life,” arrived in 2007, and his last full-length studio album of new material, the classical music collection “Fantasies & Delusions,” was released in 2001.
Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium is the fourth video album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. It was recorded during two concerts of the Storm Front Tour at Yankee Stadium in New York City on June 22 and 23, 1990. It was televised on September 2, 1990, released on VHS later that year, and released on DVD in late 2000.
The next episode of Grey's Anatomy should borrow a page from Dre's Anatomy, a hilarious spoof of the medical drama courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel Live.It's the D.R.E. -- aka Andre Young, aka Dr. Dre ...
At the beginning of the video, Joel plays "Piano Man" on his harmonica.The entire video pays homage to the film It's a Wonderful Life, [2] as the angelic Joel shows a suicidal young man named George Young, (played by Jason Andrews) [6] threatening to jump off a bridge because of a break-up with his girlfriend what life will be like without him, as his family and friends mourn his death—as ...
Billy Joel performs on stage during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images The Grammys audience was in the mood for a melody, and Billy Joel had them feeling alright.