![]() ![]() It’s gratifying to hear an audience sing your words. “Oh, good, it’s almost over!” I’m kidding. What are you thinking as you’re singing “Piano Man” onstage? “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is essentially a novelty song. I never thought “Piano Man” would be a hit. I like the obscure stuff more than the hits. Those songs are the soundtracks to people’s lives! If I had to dilute it, I’d say about half of my songs are passable, but there’s a bunch I would throw away. He said they thought I was singing in Polish. I played it in France and asked a promoter why they didn’t like it. I once tried to write a song in French, and I don’t even speak French. I don’t like my own voice.ĭo you consider yourself a great songwriter? I have a theory about any success I’ve had. I don’t like to think about why – because then you find out. Why do you think you became a bigger draw since you returned to performing? Everybody was raving about the show and we said, “What?” I guess we’ve been away for a while, but I think that’s kind of what decided it, “Maybe I should do some more playing.” … I think we played the Sandy concert in New York. There was no cartilage between the bones and a lot of it is probably from years of jumping off the piano. I just sit there at the piano and bang out the tunes and sometimes the absurdity of it makes me want to do something absolutely outrageously silly and bring the audience in on the joke.īut it was really bad. I don’t really jump around the stage like Jagger. I never thought of myself of a stadium act. How does playing a big stadium compare to your regular gig at Madison Square Garden? It’s like, ‘Is everybody else quitting?'” Here, Joel shares what he’s learned throughout his 50-year career – including why he encourages musical mistakes and why he’s not as depressed as everyone thinks. “There’s offers coming in from everywhere. “There’s a whole new thing going on,” says Joel, who this summer has sold out stadiums in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia for the fourth year in a row. But despite releasing no new music since 1993, he has been seeing bigger crowds every year since he returned to the road in 2013 after a long break to recover from hip surgery. When Billy Joel wrote “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” in the mid-Seventies, he had no idea he’d still be playing stadiums the year that song was set. ![]()
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