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Billy Joel

Billy Joel, formerly known as William Martin Joel, is a major recording artist, singer-songwriter, and musician. His most well-known hits include "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are", and "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me". Joel is the 6th best-selling recording artist in the USA, according to the RIAA.

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What Billy Joel song was the theme song to the show Bosom Buddies?

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Stephanie Mills

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but only if Stephanie Mills is a guy, because the theme was sung by a man.

My uncle, Gary Bennett. Local musician from Atlanta but he was living in LA at the time of recording.

Where could one find the lyrics to the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel?

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

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We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev

Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

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Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy

Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

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Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

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Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide

Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire

But when we are gone

Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

How many number one hits has Billy Joel had in the US?

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Elton John has had 8 songs hit #1 in the U.S. how many number one hits has elton john had worldwide?

What is the tempo for she's always a woman by Billy Joel?

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A tempo in a piano are the numbers that are one on top of the other. 4 over 4 means you play in four/four time which is the basest beat there is, bum ... bum ... bum ... bum. 6 over 8 means you play in 6/8 time, which is bum ... bubum ... bum ... bubum. There are more but those are the basest and the hardest.

Is Billy Joel sick?

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He is alright, although it has been rumored that he has recently started drinking excessively again [possibly due to his recent divorce].

What genre is the song billy jean?

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Michael Jackson wrote this song as a disclaimer of a child. A woman named Billie Jean had reported to media that her child was Michael Jackson's child, probably just for attention. Of course, this wasn't true, and they finally did DNA testings to prove this (the kid ended up not being MJ's) and Michael wrote a song about it to claim that Billie Jean's accusation was false. In the song, it says "Billie Jean is not my lover, she's just the girl who claims that I am the one. But the kid is not my son." and I think that is pretty self explanatory.

How many albums did Billy Joel record?

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The first song Billie Joe sang was "Look for Love" which he recorded when he was 5 yrs old. Since then he has sang all of the songs for Green Day (with the exception of their two instrumental songs "Espionage" and "Last Ride In". "Dominated Love Slave", "All By Myself" [the song after F.O.D.], and "Rock & Roll Girlfriend" [in the song "Homecoming"] were sung by Tre Cool. "Nobody Likes You" [also from the song "Homecoming"] was sung by Mike Dirnt). Billie Joe also sang all the songs for the band Foxboro Hottubs, Pinhead Gunpowder, The Network, and was also featured in a Rancid song with Tim Armstrong (no relation aside from being good friends). How many songs is that all together? A lot.

What was Billy Joel's first song on the Billboard Charts?

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3 Billy Joel #1 hits:

Still Rock & Roll to Me

Tell Her About it.

We Didn't Start the Fire

Peaking at #3

River of Dreams

Uptown Girl (twice)

Just the Way You Are

My Life

Piano Man (peaked at #25)

Source "Billboard Chart History"

Who is the woman singing with Billy Joel in the song Piano Man?

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He is the only singer in this song. The high voice you may have heard was Billy Joel using his falsetto.

When did Billy Joel first record the song 'Just the Way You Are'?

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Billy Joel recorded the song "Just the Way You Are" in 1977 on his album, The Stranger. It was his first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single which reached number 3 in the US and it was also his first gold single.

Where did Billy Joel first meet Elton John?

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The two met in a Dutch hotel in Amsterdam in the mid-1970's.

What was Take That's first number one hit?

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Hi The answer to this question is 'Pray'. I am one of the 'origianl' Take That fans from when they shot to fame the first time. They were brill then but they are amazing now. Vicky

Why did Billy Joel and Katy Lee divorce?

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Yes. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley were married. They had one daughter, Alexa Ray. After their divorce in 1994, Joel stopped writing rock music, as was foreshadowed at the end of his song Christie Lee which he wrote before their wedding:

They say that Joe became a wino

They say he only drinks alone

They say he stumbles like a blind man

They say he sold his saxophone.

Even the band must face the music

That's what the moral is to me

The only time you hit the high notes

Is when you play for Christie Lee

Does Billy Joel write songs for other artists?

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Garth Brooks covered one of Billy's songs and took it to number one on the country charts, something Joel has not achieved himself. However, that was just a cover, and Joel has not written songs for other artists.

How did the Peshtigo fire start?

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I was watching on tv what would happen with an asteroid strike in any part of the world. One segment of the program centered on how the fire in Peshtigo may have happened. Because of fires that were going on at he same time, the great

chicago fire a meteor may have exploded in the sky causing fires in several states at the same time.

What genre of music is piano man by Billy Joel?

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Billy Joel is a tenor. His music is generally highly melodic and fluid and so, therefore, he avoids belting past b4, but early in Billy Joel's career, when he was in the band Attila, he can be heard belting high C's. In his River of Dreams album he can also be heard belting high D5's. This was recorded in 1994 and appears to be his highest sustainable note for several seconds in real head voice. (He can soar above D5 in falsetto and vocal mix.)

Currently, if you type into google the title of the following video, "Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon Form 2-Man Doo-Wop Group Using iPad App", at the time of 3:23 into the video, Billy in 2014 is still singing top A with grace and ease... So Billy Joel has a lyric tenor. Beyond how high a note one can sing, to define a voice classification, one must also look at the singer's tessitura, the singer's most comfortable range. Billy Joel's tessitura on songs like Uptown Girl repeatedly hits A4, and he sounds quite comfortable up around G4 and A4. Yes, baritones can also hit A4's, but they do not stay in the high vocal fach for very long; they sing lower and belt once in a while. Billy Joel, as tenors do, stays in the high range with ease and with lyricism. That said, he does have some nice crooning lows too. But all in all, Billy Joel is definitely a tenor.

Who sang the song just the way you are?

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You may be referring to Billy Joel, who had a huge hit with that song; in fact, he won a Grammy for it, in 1978. But more recently, you may be referring to a hit by Bruno Mars from 2010 with the same title, but an entirely different song.

How many siblings did Billy Joel have as a kid?

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Billy Joel has one sister, she is older, her name is Judith, or Judy.

Meaning of song by Billy Joel you didn't start the fire?

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Actually it's we didn't start the fire and it's a song billy Joel wrote.

Where in the Bronx did Billy Joel live?

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In Long Island.

Why did Liberty Devitto leave Billy Joel?

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I found this on someone's blog/review of one of the Madison Square Garden shows...A surprise to me was the absence of Liberty DeVitto who, according to someone sitting in our section, had a falling out with Joel over a book Liberty's writing that apparently goes into a little too much detail about Billy's days of drinking and drugs. My section-mate claims that Liberty wasn't even invited to Billy's latest wedding. As the man says, "melodrama's so much fun..."

How many of Billy Joel's albums reached 1 in the charts?

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(sales of 1,000,000 units, U.S. only)

The Essential 2x Platinum, Piano Man 4x Platinum, Streetlife Serenade 1x Platinum, Turnstiles 1x Platinum, The Stranger 9x Platinum, 52nd Street 7x Platinum, Glass Houses 7x Platinum, Songs In The Attic 3x Platinum, An Innocent Man 7x Platinum, Greatest Hits Volume I and Volume II 20x Platinum, The Bridge 2x Platinum, Kohuept 1x Platinum, Storm Front 4x Platinum, River of Dreams 5x Platinum, Greatest Hits Volume III 1x Platinum, Complete Hits Collection 1x Platinum

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How do you start a fire in a fire pit?

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Find dry kindling and arrange it into a thick bed that is sturdy so it does not fall over when lit. Using a long match or piece or wood to light the fire to avoid getting burned. To ensure optimal burning, small bellows can be used to infuse oxygen into the pit.