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“Uptown Girl” remains one of Joel’s biggest hits and featured Brinkley in the video, starring as a sophisticated, upper-class woman, while Joel plays a blue-collar mechanic.The duo was ...
"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel from his ninth studio album An Innocent Man (1983), released in September 1983 as the album's second single. The lyrics describe a working-class " downtown man" attempting to woo a wealthy " uptown girl".
The instrumentation was organ and drums, [2] with Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, similar to the Doors' Ray Manzarek. [3] Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth, whom he later married, [ 4 ] although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's 1987 ...
2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two-disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000. On May 31, 2000, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 250,000 copies. The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City , during Joel's The Night of Two Thousand Years Tour.
Christie Brinkley was feeling the music as Billy Joel performed her song!On Friday, Brinkley attended her ex-husband's sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and got a special serenade. In a ...
The supermodel danced along while ex-husband Billy Joel performed “Uptown Girl” during a concert at his residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on April 26.
Brinkley starred in the music video for the song two years before she and Joel married in 1985, the same year they welcomed their daughter Alexa Ray Joel. Brinkley and Joel divorced in 1994.
To help promote the album, Joel filmed music videos for both "To Make You Feel My Love" and "Hey Girl", featuring himself performing with his band. In addition, Joel performed "To Make You Feel My Love" as musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman on August 18, 1997, almost exactly four years after Joel served as the first musical ...