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Photo of a photo of Billy Joel sitting at Elvis' golden piano at Graceland in Memphis Tennessee in 1987.
- Billy Joel, Piano Man
**EXPLORED**
I just had the most heavenly nap. My run today really zapped my energy, so it was nice to just completely relax this afternoon.
I don't know what it is with me and musical instruments, but I love photographing them. They're just so beautiful. :)
totem pole in the smithsonian national museum of the american indian - washington, dc
last year's (kinda large) wash dc set
Ristorante Da Raffaele - Venezia / Venice - Veneto - Italia / Italy
A bottle of white, a bottle of red,
Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead.
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I - face to face hm, hm
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
Things are okay with me these days
I got a good job, I got a good office
I got a new wife, got a new life
And the family is fine
Oh we lost touch long ago
You lost weight - I did not know
you could ever look so nice after so much time.
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green?
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Oh you drop a dime in the box play a song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights ooh, ooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh…..
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
Oh, oh, oh, oh…..
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
Oh, but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
Oh, oh, oh
Well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years
but they started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears.
Oh, oh yeah rock 'n roll
Oh, oh, oh
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
But you could never go back there again
Oh, oh
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to the greasers
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Oh and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more 'cause I've told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah
A bottle of red, a bottle of white,
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
(Billy Joel - "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant", from the album "The Stranger", 1977)
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take 'till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.
I said I love you, and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.
(Billy Joel)
Deliciosos waffles con fresas y miel...
mi desayuno otoñal...
en una mañana de octubre...
de un bonito domingo...
en compañia de mi familia...♥
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice
This enlightening five-hour documentary about the
struggles of Billy Joel's songwriting and life features
interviews, performances, home movies, and family
photographs.
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Unlike Irene, Joel dropped out of Long Island's Hicksville High School. He did not graduate with his class in 1967 as he missed a crucial English exam. In 1992 he submitted essays to the school board in lieu of the missed exam. They were accepted, and he was awarded his Hicksville High School diploma 25 years late.
We went to see Elton John and Billy Joel last night. The concert was FABULOUS! This is my first adventure taking pictures at a concert. I have been to several hundred of them but have never taken any pictures. We were not allowed to take into the show any big comeras but we could take small ones. The show sold out in ten minutes so our tickets were in the nose bleed section. Under the circumstances I thought these turned out pretty good. Don took some also and will be posting them on his stream.
She said, "I've eaten way too much junk during the Thanksgiving holidays."
. . . and so, remorse sets in . . .
. . . time to make lemonade from lemons . . .
. . . stay tuned for my next stranger interview . . .
“Hot funk,
cold punk,
even if it's old junk,
it's still rock and roll to me.”
~ Billy Joel ~
“Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms.
God never makes junk.”
~ Kathy Ireland ~
“It's been said,
'What's one man's junk
is another man's treasure,'
and that may be the case here.”
~ Don Hines ~
“Junk is the ultimate merchandise.
The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer,
he sells the consumer to the product.
He does not improve and simplify his merchandise,
he degrades and simplifies the client.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
New music for my trip to Colorado! Every year I get new music to listen to for the long drive to Colorado for my yearly mountain adventures. This year the drive will be a bit longer (I have to spend the night on the road just to get there), but I am going to incorporate music from previous years- both albums that were really great and are always in my mix, as well as albums that I need to go back and re-visit!
Theme: Music To My Ears
Year Ten Of My 365 Project
I've been playing the piano since I was probably around 6 years old. I took lessons from a woman named Mrs. Waggoner who lived down the street from us. I quit lessons as soon as my mom would let me, which I think was probably sometime around 6th grade. But I never quit playing. I simply taught myself the songs I wanted to play.
This piano is actually my mother's. I used to tell her that I wanted to take it and put it in my own house since I play it more than she does, but her response for as long as I can remember has always been "everything will be yours one day." Talk about morbid.
Now I play whenever I visit my parents' house. I'm fantastic at the songs I know (though since it's been years since I've had solid time to practice, some of my favorites are a little rusty), and I can teach myself any song I want if given enough time. But I'm nowhere near as good as Andy. He used to play piano in competitions. Whenever his folks went out of town during college, he'd have everyone over for a party and sometime around 2 or 3am, when he was good and drunk, he'd sit down and start blazing away at the piano. That's back before we were dating, when we were just friends. And I still remember watching him in awe as his hands raced across the keys, playing beautiful, complicated music at the wee hours of the morning. I think I may have been falling in love with him at the time without even realizing it.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 110
Her name is Elisa, my sweet and bright little niece. This little girl knows how to act a sort of emotions and feelings, and i say she enjoys it alot. Ahh I really love this child.
W16 ~ Slow down, you crazy child
you're so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you're so smart, tell me
Why are you still so afraid?
♪ Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us all feelin' alright ♪
~ You're My Home by Billy Joel
I had a great day today with Toni...my wife, my best friend and the love of my life.!!
Billy Joel's song You're My Home says it all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r34i3aU14cY
Happy Sappy Slider Sunday - HSS !!
Our Daily Challenge - At the Top
Few memories from a fantastic night at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff to see Billy Joel, opening act was Chris Isaak. You're not really allowed cameras at these events but was happy to grab a few memory shots. My sister and I decided to opt for standing tickets at the front, and forgo seats. That meant around 5 hours of standing, dancing, singing, but was totally worth it. Having the biggest part of 70,000 people behind and above you, singing all the words and waving their phones was quite something. He was just amazing.
- Billy Joel, She's Always a Woman
Ok, apparently a lot of people (including Andy) really like this one. So I figured I'd post it on its own. This was a fun shoot. And easy. Those are the best. :)
"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
The new field, Citi Stadium (left), will become the new home for the Mets, while the old Stadium, Shea (right) will be broken down piece by piece
That's my mom and me!!!
Happy 70th birthday to Billy Joel, one of my favorite singers of all time. I have been a Billy Joel fan since as long as I can remember, and ten years ago I had the pleasure of watching him perform at Gillette Stadium alongside Elton John, where I took this photo.
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Few memories from a fantastic night at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff to see Billy Joel, opening act was Chris Isaak. You're not really allowed cameras at these events but was happy to grab a few memory shots. My sister and I decided to opt for standing tickets at the front, and forgo seats. That meant around 5 hours of standing, dancing, singing, but was totally worth it. Having the biggest part of 70,000 people behind and above you, singing all the words and waving their phones was quite something. He was just amazing.
On St Patrick's Day, I went to see Sir Elton John and Billy Joel in concert. It was hosted at the new BOK Center, a venue that has finally put Tulsa on the concert map just this year!! I've never seen either of these legendary artists although I've been a fan of Elton John since my youth. The tour was named "Face to Face" and as you can see with Elton on the left and BJ on the right, they are indeed facing one another. But this was no piano bar performance. They each had their own sets, but the height of the concert was when they performed one another's music at the end - with both bands. Count them. How many drummers to you see? They were all playing. That's four drummers, four keyboardists, four guitarists, bass, horns, and two legendary singers. The acoustics were phenomenal in this facility that was engineered for sound. We were seated in the nose bleed section, but still had a stellar auditory experience... lol.
Blessed from birth with a particularly fabulous set of teeth, Reginald was admired wherever and whenever he played himself. His rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody was particularly splendid, if a little limited in the number of octaves covered.
He could have been rich and famous, filling stadiums across the planet, but he was bankrupted by excruciatingly expensive dentistry bills and the constant plinking and plonking noise he made as he ate, drove him quite insane.
Poor chap.
Yup.
Anyway...er maybe you'd love to:
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Strobist:
Two Bowens Gemini Pro 500's with big softboxes camera left and right, at 45 degrees, both set on 4.0. Triggered by PC cord cable.
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
I still belong, don't get me wrong
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time
They will tell you you can't sleep alone
In a strange place
Then they'll tell you you can't sleep
With somebody else
Ah, but sooner or later you sleep
In your own space
Either way it's okay
You wake up with yourself
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone
("my life" - billy joel)
The electric Rhodes piano played a tremendous role in music, used by Jazz, R& B, and Rock keyboardists. Ray Charles played one on "Shake A Tailfeather - if you haven't heard this song check it out on the Blues Brothers Soundtrack ) , Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Billy Joel, Joe Zawinul, Donny Hathaway, Billy Preston ( especially while playing with The Beatles ) , Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, and Pink Floyd all used its distinctive tone at various parts of their careers.