Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Allentown" is a song by American singer Billy Joel and the lead track on Joel's 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. Released as the album's second single, it was accompanied by a conceptual music video . Upon its release, and especially in subsequent years, "Allentown" emerged as an anthem of blue-collar America, representing both the aspirations ...
Joel wrote the melody for "Allentown" eight years before finishing it, later completing the lyrics in time for inclusion on The Nylon Curtain. According to Joel, the titular character from the song "Laura" was supposed to represent anyone who knows how to "push your buttons" and make you feel guilty. He also explained that the character ...
The lyrics of "Goodnight Saigon" are about Marines in battle bonding together, fighting their fears and trying to figure out how to survive. [1] The singer, a Marine, sings of "we" rather than "I", emphasizing that the Marines are all in the situation together. [1] In the bridge, Joel sings of the darkness and the fear it induced in the Marines ...
"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" is a song written and recorded by Billy Joel, featured on his 1977 album The Stranger as the opening track. The song critiques the ambitions of working- and lower-middle-class New Yorkers who strive for material success as evidence of social mobility, working long hours to afford the outward signs of having "made it". [4]
"And So It Goes" is a song written by Billy Joel in 1983, though it was not released until six years later. It appeared as the tenth and final track of his 1989 studio album Storm Front . The original 1983 demo was released on the 2005 box set My Lives . [ 2 ]
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 ...
Billy Joel performing in 2017. Billy Joel is the "Piano Man," and the song is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Originally released on Nov. 2, 1973, Joel's signature song isn't even the tune that ...
The country couldn't know. They thought we were boondocks steel town. 2. The other gripe we had was that the song itself was really a drag. It was not our kind of music. We acknowledged Billy Joel as a talent. We dissed the song, not for the lyrics: for the music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.36.124 00:41, 30 March 2009 (UTC)