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It was inspired by Alexa Ray Joel, his daughter by Christie Brinkley. The song is in the key of G major. In 2004, it was announced that Joel had agreed to write two children's books for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher. The first book was titled Goodnight, My Angel (A Lullabye) and is a picture book based on the song and illustrated by Yvonne ...
Critical response to the song has been mixed. In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Paul Evans called "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" one of the "ambitious story songs" on Piano Man [10] and Dennis Hunt of The Los Angeles Times agreed that the song showed Joel's "knack for story songs." [11] But other critics have dismissed the song.
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man", he has been making music since the 1960s ...
If you prefer your sad songs with a country twang, Truck Girl is going to be your new favorite. The gist of the song goes a little something like this: you want to go work things out with the ...
"James" is a song written and performed by Billy Joel from his fourth studio album Turnstiles (1976). It was released as the album's first single in July 1976, backed with " Travelin' Prayer ". [ 2 ] One Final serenade described the song as "a wistful song about growing up and trying to balance pursuing one's dreams while balancing family and ...
To make the selection process easier, Esquire is rounding up the best sad songs of 2023. For what it's worth, these aren't the saddest songs of the year. That's a whole different list.
It opens with "sad and tender" piano chords. [3] According to Ken Bielen in his book The Words and Music of Billy Joel, Liberty DeVitto's drums and cymbal crashes, remind listeners that "the track is a predecessor of the power ballads of the 1980s and 1990s". [3] It talks about the inherent lack of honesty even in the closest of relationships.
This song has a good dose of sad sad: "So I'll dance with your ghost in the living room/And I'll play the piano alone/But I'm too scared to delete all our videos/'Cause it's real once everyone ...