Love his songs, his voice, been to his concerts etc, but calling him a genius is a bit far fetched to me. More like a very talented musician, like many others.
@@tman5634 Based on all the videos of all your talents you have posted on Y/T I would assume your level of genius is the benchmark for others. Get a life chump change and leave the music to those that can hear it, appreciate it, and write it..
I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of ALLENTOWN and VIENNA on my YT channel in tribute to the master. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
mike young Same. My older brother was huge into music and I had ZERO interest (6 grade ish). One day I ran across a VH1 all day Billy Joel Marathon...the rest is history.
Same. Billy & Queen. I remember sitting in the floor of my sister's room when I was 2 or 3 years old listening to Glass Houses and The Game on vinyl over and over and over again.
Christine J. Me too. I became a musician because of him. When I was a kid, I had to buy Billy joel's greatest hits volumes 1&2 three times because I wore the tapes out from listening so much. True story.
@RakeRocter Bob Dylan is a folk musician and Billy Joel is a general musician with many different styles. Hard to compare them. Both are same great and living legends.
Billy Joel and Bob Dylan are fantastic without doubt, but I humbly suggest George Gershwin and Cole Porter as at least contenders for the greatest of all time.
I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of his classic compositions ALLENTOWN and VIENNA on my channel in tribute to the master. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and pardon the plug.
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
I’m sure that many writers would gladly take credit for the 25% of his writings that Billy Joel would throw away. Billy Joel’s music grabs at me, my heart and soul more than any other artist out there. When I reach my low points I listen to Billy Joel to pull me up.
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
I had the great honor to talk to Billy in 1991 for 15 min. at the lobby of an hotel after one of his shows. I gave him an album I recorded 3 years before. He is as humble as he is talented. I still can't believe I had a small conversation with such a LEGEND of our time. I cherish the picture I have with him. BILLY JOEL FOREVER!
I saw Billy Joel back in 1986 and it was freaking awesome. It was kind of funny he was joking with some guy in the audience he asked the guy to throw him his wallet and the guy did, and Billy said you don’t throw your wallet to a complete stranger. I’m thinking to myself you’re not a complete stranger he may not know you personally but he knows who you are.
I'm 52 now (1967). I started listening to Joel in 76 when I was only 9-years old. Hearing his music then, seeing his growing catalog over the years, an noting that everything he did was completely hoisted from his own gray matter (words an music by Billy Joel) gave me a tremendous respect for him. I only play three composers for family, friends, and the occasional piano house when asked do so, Beethoven, Chopin , and Joel. As far as I'm concerned he's the best lyricist + composer of my generation. That he did both just seals the deal. And of course, that he dated and/or married a slew of supermodels was just fuel to the legend.
I love That every night is a different show. Different set list. Digging out juicy nuggets from his catalog as well as covers. While he’s not writing new music, he’s not resting on his laurels at all.
@@WoodJack99 hi jack if you live here, i live in Jersey, you can tell but we all understand that if you are from another part of the country its hard to tell the difference. people here can tell if yr from hoboken vs the bronx vs brooklyn ect similar but also different!! its the "tony danza" effect lol
I brought my dad for his 48th birthday in 2018 to see him play at MSG. It was the best concert he and I have ever been to (between the both of us we have seen over 100 shows) it was a night I will never forget.
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
First concert I ever saw in 1978, and I recently had the immense pleasure of seeing him at Madison Square Garden. I’m so grateful to him for the joy he has brought to my life.
Sing us a song your the Piano man! Billy Joel's songs are timeless!! Songs of my generation. Everytime I hear one of his songs, it takes me back in time. Its like visiting an old friend. 💙🎼Thanks for the music Billy!
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Anthony's song is my all-time favorite song from him. I love it when the song comes to a halt by the piano sound and then it ends with the saxophones' sound.
I really am so happy I saw this video. I loved Billy Joel when I was in 8th grade through the end of high school. I knew all of his songs by heart. Then when he went astray, I started to doubt why I liked him? Now, after watching this insightful video I realize he is human, just like you and me. Love you Billy Joel!
It’s amazing how many of the great artists I grew up listening to are still selling out arenas. I don’t think many of today’s artists will have that kind of longevity.
Very, very, very difficult not to love this guy. I'm a guitar man, so there's an inherent distance but this guy has brought me to different kind of tears more than once. In other words, he's ok!
Yes, he is indeed. It would be great if Billy Joel can write and record at least one more new studio album before he really wraps it up. These days, a group of Billy Joel fans are currently petitioning him to record new music soon and they are going crazy for new songs from him. Here is the petition and please check it out and share: www.change.org/p/we-want-billy-joel-to-record-and-release-a-new-studio-album-soon
I’m mangling this quote that was applied in a different context, but it’s something like, “Why be a second-rate Beethoven, when you can be a first-rate Billy Joel?” He’s an American treasure. He deserves all the success and good things that come his way. Cheer#! JT
I grew up loving his music. I sang his songs in concerts. He consoled me when I was hurt and lost. Billy Joel pretty much wrote and sung the music of my life. I love this man for all he has meant to so many people and especially what he has meant for music.
I wish I was alive when his original songs like Piano Man, Movin Out, Zanzibar, Vienna, and Just the Way You Are came out because those are some of my favorite songs in existence.
I love Billy Joel and I never quite got over his break up with Christie Brinkley. I'm stuck loving the Billy of the 80's-90's. But I'm happy Billy found a good wife, Alexa, to now share a private home life with. He deserves that. And it saddens me now he's 69.. although looking great for his age. Time is relentless. I will always love Billy Joel.
his music got me through some hard times growing up and i will always be a fan and forget everything around me when i hear his music to this day ....Im 60 now ...god bless Billy Joel ...never settle always thriving for better
My favorite song of his, that I listen to over and over and over, is called "Summer, Highland Falls." If I ever see him live again, I'd love to hear it on solo piano. "They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known..... and I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own."
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
THE biggest thrill for my younger, concert-going self was having nose-bleed seats in the Philadelphia Spectrum then discreetly plowing my way with a friend to Billy’s stage and making eye contact with The Piano Man. God, I love him.
I love Billy Joel. I know every one of his songs by heart. In my youth, I wore out 3 copies of ‘Greatest Hits 1 & 2.’ I still play his music all the time, but he’s wrong about his DJT quote, like so many. He is parroting what a hateful media put out, and not what was actually said. It’s 100% forgiven, because he’s just in that circle of folks who echo the media. I hope Joel knows how great his talent is, and can have that personal life that he has probably always wanted.
I used to play guitar with a combo band of a Cabaret back in the late 70 , smoky place, business people came there after work,beautiful waitresses , and the manager always smiling and greeting patrons sitting at the bar,i always remember those years when i listen "piano man"
true legend.....and his honesty is so refreshing about never being satisfied as a song writer...Love the vulnerability...He's just a kid from Long Island
You are amazing.....from the get go! You are the Beethoven of your generation...and many others’ generations. I feel so lucky to have seen you at MSG in 2017!😀😍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Billy Joel in 2020? How about Billy Joel forever.
Yeah...
Every 13 year old boy should be given billy Joel's greatest hit's on his birthday.
Yes to expose them to how bad music was when their parents were growing up.
Crimsonphilosophy AMEN TO THAT!!!😁😎
There are worse gifts ;)
rdecredico I like Joel but that made me laugh. So thanks for that
rdecredico music is awful now
Billy seems like a really good guy and he is certainly one of the most talented songwriters of all-time!
This man is a genius. He make things look easy.
Love his songs, his voice, been to his concerts etc, but calling him a genius is a bit far fetched to me.
More like a very talented musician, like many others.
@@tman5634
Based on all the videos of all your talents you have posted on Y/T I would assume your level of genius is the benchmark for others.
Get a life chump change and leave the music to those that can hear it, appreciate it, and write it..
Simplicity is the true mark of a genius.
Joel writes lyrics as easy as breathing..
It's crazy
He's not that much of a genius if he actually believes Trump called white supremacists "good people."
@@tman5634 Musical genius.
That is my dream concert; Billy Joel at MSG
His success makes me happy.
This got 100 likes! Which would be in line with MSG!
@@jaybee2344 he's self made
Forget Beethoven...Joel has always been a modern day Mozart to me!
That's sad.
beethoven is okay but hes no billy joel
Saw him at Fenway Park. He was amazing
Billy Joel is a beautiful man.
He aged perfectly into a chubby adorable bald man.
I hope he lives a long time! Love his music and him. Stay healthy Billy❤️
I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of ALLENTOWN and VIENNA on my YT channel in tribute to the master. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
Stephanie Hansen Great comment God bless you
He'll stay healthy playing with little kids.....
I hope you mean he live for the longest time 😉
@Stephanie Hansen ♥️🌈
Thank you for bringing us so much joy with your music Billy!
klfmc rjn he is the best!
Most definitely!!! Great lyricist... great performer... thank you Mr. Joel!!! My personal favorite album "Songs In The Attic."
Billy Joel, simply LEGEND.
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Great musician!
Great.
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The 1st songwriter whose music I fell in love with.
mike young Same. My older brother was huge into music and I had ZERO interest (6 grade ish). One day I ran across a VH1 all day Billy Joel Marathon...the rest is history.
TheMacocko I was eleven when the love affair began. Song.... ‘Movin’ Out’. Fave- ‘Honesty’.
Same. Billy & Queen. I remember sitting in the floor of my sister's room when I was 2 or 3 years old listening to Glass Houses and The Game on vinyl over and over and over again.
DrRosenpenis No way! I swear, Queen is my #2 fave! That's crazy.
Same. The reason I became a musician. I bought Greatest hits volume 1&2 three times because I wore the tape out.
Why is it when I hear him sing some of his songs I weep?
Kel O'Reilly So do I 👋
Kel O'Reilly
If your eyes don't sweat on Goodnight Saigon or Lullaby you're not human.
You're My Home gets me every time.
Because you have emotional problems.
Seek professional help.
rdecredico Being touched by music isn't a mental disorder.
He is my favorite singer, I love him so much.
Christine J. Me too. I became a musician because of him. When I was a kid, I had to buy Billy joel's greatest hits volumes 1&2 three times because I wore the tapes out from listening so much. True story.
Christine J. Last year my dream came true and got to see him for the first time in concert.
christine j
who cares what you love or hate?
tiarnan I love your mom.
tiarnan well, clearly you do cause you bothered to write a comment.
the greatest american songwriter ever bar none
@RakeRocter Bob Dylan is a folk musician and Billy Joel is a general musician with many different styles. Hard to compare them. Both are same great and living legends.
Billy Joel and Bob Dylan are fantastic without doubt, but I humbly suggest George Gershwin and Cole Porter as at least contenders for the greatest of all time.
As an afterthought, and taking nothing away from the aforementioned, I submit the names of Carole King and Burt Bacharach.
Johnny Mercer is another name that cannot be ignored.
oof have you heard of bob dylan or leonard cohen?
He still sounds good.
Saw him in hamburg last month absolutely brilliant!
WeeklyTens, I saw him on RUclips today!
Now it's reaffirmed that critics fall short of speaking for people but only can tell their own opinion.
Billy Joel's music some of the best things in life.
You still sound so amazing !
Love Billy Joel. I hope he performs as long as HE WANTS!! He will always have an audience!
how do you not love this guy?? a true icon!! :)
I'd be honored if some Billy Joel fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of his classic compositions ALLENTOWN and VIENNA on my channel in tribute to the master. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and pardon the plug.
Will Ritter would love to!! I’ll check it out tonight :)
A: the Syracuse hat
How? By knowing what he really is.
rdecredico
The King of Music 😁
Soulful voice..friendly guy
god bless !
Billy Joel the best!
Dearly love the man and his music!
Have you ever fallen in love with someone's music for the first time and 40 years later nothing has changed? There's only one true Piano Man!!!
You're absolutely right! It's Elton John!
I'm 30 and I'm a HUGE fan. I will be there for the 200th show!!!!
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
I’m sure that many writers would gladly take credit for the 25% of his writings that Billy Joel would throw away. Billy Joel’s music grabs at me, my heart and soul more than any other artist out there. When I reach my low points I listen to Billy Joel to pull me up.
Tbh, Uptown Girl is my default song for cheering up.
i’m 20 n just discovered uptown girl and the stranger. feels like I struck gold
His last album was 1993. It’s amazing he still sells out concerts over 25 years later! Great artist!
So nice to see an authentic person who's an amazing writer and entertainer, and who's confident, but not full of himself.
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Billy Joel is a national treasure.
Billy's teeth are Brighter than my future
Lol
Just saw this, but wishing you the best and positivity. Kindest regards.
I had the great honor to talk to Billy in 1991 for 15 min. at the lobby of an hotel after one of his shows. I gave him an album I recorded 3 years before. He is as humble as he is talented. I still can't believe I had a small conversation with such a LEGEND of our time. I cherish the picture I have with him. BILLY JOEL FOREVER!
If only the world could be ruled by artists
Billy you are the BEST,
That’s amazing!!! He can play the piano, sing, and play the harmonica all at once!!!!
Greatest singer/songwriter ever!
I saw Billy Joel back in 1986 and it was freaking awesome.
It was kind of funny he was joking with some guy in the audience he asked the guy to throw him his wallet and the guy did, and Billy said you don’t throw your wallet to a complete stranger. I’m thinking to myself you’re not a complete stranger he may not know you personally but he knows who you are.
bob sponge haha! But Billy is “The Stranger!”
I'm 52 now (1967). I started listening to Joel in 76 when I was only 9-years old. Hearing his music then, seeing his growing catalog over the years, an noting that everything he did was completely hoisted from his own gray matter (words an music by Billy Joel) gave me a tremendous respect for him. I only play three composers for family, friends, and the occasional piano house when asked do so, Beethoven, Chopin , and Joel. As far as I'm concerned he's the best lyricist + composer of my generation. That he did both just seals the deal. And of course, that he dated and/or married a slew of supermodels was just fuel to the legend.
As a long islander growing up playing the keyboard/piano, Billy Joel is such an inspiration
"Entertaining us for 40 summers now." Wow!
He took good care of his voice over the years. A living legend! 💯🤘
I love That every night is a different show. Different set list. Digging out juicy nuggets from his catalog as well as covers. While he’s not writing new music, he’s not resting on his laurels at all.
I’m from jersey and spend a lot of time in Long Island, everyone I know from Long Island talks like billy Joel
How is the LI accent different from the NYC or North NJ accent? To me they sound the same but everyone says the LI accent is very different.
Sacrilege all very different.
@@WoodJack99 hi jack if you live here, i live in Jersey, you can tell but we all understand that if you are from another part of the country its hard to tell the difference. people here can tell if yr from hoboken vs the bronx vs brooklyn ect similar but also different!! its the "tony danza" effect lol
I brought my dad for his 48th birthday in 2018 to see him play at MSG. It was the best concert he and I have ever been to (between the both of us we have seen over 100 shows) it was a night I will never forget.
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Is it a big deal for you?!? Yeah, I maybe doing this the rest of my life. GOD BLESS YOU, MR. JOEL. You're music has made a lot of people HAPPY!!!😁😎
What an incredible musician, who has the most soulful voice..
I've been a die-hard fan of Billy Joel for 40 years now! Love the guy!!
First concert I ever saw in 1978, and I recently had the immense pleasure of seeing him at Madison Square Garden. I’m so grateful to him for the joy he has brought to my life.
I'm 34 and I love to listen to Billy joel
I’m born in late 80s!!
Ironic, everyday I have to forgive myself for not being Billy Joel...
TheMacocko 😂
Sing us a song your the Piano man!
Billy Joel's songs are timeless!! Songs of my generation. Everytime I hear one of his songs, it takes me back in time. Its like visiting an old friend. 💙🎼Thanks for the music Billy!
What memories with his music... was my childhood... thank you, Billy
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Anthony's song is my all-time favorite song from him. I love it when the song comes to a halt by the piano sound and then it ends with the saxophones' sound.
So many songs to pick from......
I really am so happy I saw this video. I loved Billy Joel when I was in 8th grade through the end of high school. I knew all of his songs by heart. Then when he went astray, I started to doubt why I liked him? Now, after watching this insightful video I realize he is human, just like you and me. Love you Billy Joel!
Protect this man at all cost! ❤️❤️❤️🤟
It’s amazing how many of the great artists I grew up listening to are still selling out arenas. I don’t think many of today’s artists will have that kind of longevity.
What a treasure of an interview...
That’s mostly because he rarely does interview period!!
It’s like magic when he touches a piano
Piano Man is his signature song. The one everyone comes to hear him perform.
Saw Billy Joel in Chicago in 92 or 93. His concert was one of the greatest experiences of my life!
Very, very, very difficult not to love this guy. I'm a guitar man, so there's an inherent distance but this guy has brought me to different kind of tears more than once. In other words, he's ok!
I saw him 40 years ago for the first time, on the Glass Houses tour (April, 1981). No opening act. I think that was the peak of his popularity.
The greatest American musician of all time.
Yes, he is indeed. It would be great if Billy Joel can write and record at least one more new studio album before he really wraps it up. These days, a group of Billy Joel fans are currently petitioning him to record new music soon and they are going crazy for new songs from him. Here is the petition and please check it out and share: www.change.org/p/we-want-billy-joel-to-record-and-release-a-new-studio-album-soon
The S on his hat stands for Superniceguy.
JabberCT not only have I heard he is very down to earth,but I believe they hat is from a college not even in NY that gave him an honorary degree
Its from Syracuse University...
Andrew whitcomb, the hat is from Syracuse university, which is indeed in NY.
The S stands for Smoothness ! This dude is a humble badass !
I live in denmark. Man i wish he would do a show here
Billy Joel 😍
Why did he want to be Beethoven? He is Billy Joel, that is great enough.
Yes, he is.
Only fools are satisfied
@@octavian2381 He can dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Waaay more talented then Beethoven
I’m mangling this quote that was applied in a different context, but it’s something like, “Why be a second-rate Beethoven, when you can be a first-rate Billy Joel?” He’s an American treasure. He deserves all the success and good things that come his way. Cheer#! JT
This interview made me happy.
I grew up loving his music. I sang his songs in concerts. He consoled me when I was hurt and lost. Billy Joel pretty much wrote and sung the music of my life. I love this man for all he has meant to so many people and especially what he has meant for music.
One of my all time favorites!!
Billy Joel is so talented! He definitely is one of my favorites!
I'm glad that I had the opportunity to see him on his River of Dreams tour.
Saw Billy in Dublin couple of weeks ago and then back in the 90s with Elton, amazing both times
I wish I was alive when his original songs like Piano Man, Movin Out, Zanzibar, Vienna, and Just the Way You Are came out because those are some of my favorite songs in existence.
I love Billy Joel and I never quite got over his break up with Christie Brinkley. I'm stuck loving the Billy of the 80's-90's. But I'm happy Billy found a good wife, Alexa, to now share a private home life with. He deserves that. And it saddens me now he's 69.. although looking great for his age. Time is relentless. I will always love Billy Joel.
He definitely didn't start the fire! He SET the fire! Also, as an 80's baby, he'll always be Dodger the Dog in Disney's Oliver and Company.
his music got me through some hard times growing up and i will always be a fan and forget everything around me when i hear his music to this day ....Im 60 now ...god bless Billy Joel ...never settle always thriving for better
I went to concert #101 at MSG this month and it was great :)
The critics BJ pilloried have come and gone, wallowing in their ego-pits, but his class as a composer and musician lives on.
I live in Dallas Texas. I love this man so much! Song wise he took me from 20 to 59 years old. No amount of money could repay him.
I was there and it was awesome!
Living on Long Island, I’ve seen him in concert at the Colosseum a number of times. Never a disappointment. He’s great.
My favorite song of his, that I listen to over and over and over, is called "Summer, Highland Falls." If I ever see him live again, I'd love to hear it on solo piano. "They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known..... and I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own."
Thank you thank you. Am just really overwhelmed for your love and support my friend I love you God bless you my fan contact me directly on my official email officialbillyjo@gmail.com hope to hear from you soon
Off of "Songs in the Attic" is the best recorded version. He played it all the time in the early days. My first Billy Joel concert was in 1976
Saw Billy Joel & Elton John on the “Piano Man” tour. Could easily say best concert ever and I’ve seen a lot of them. The sound quality was amazing🎶
Blue collar hero with the Queen 👸 of England.
THE biggest thrill for my younger, concert-going self was having nose-bleed seats in the Philadelphia Spectrum then discreetly plowing my way with a friend to Billy’s stage and making eye contact with The Piano Man. God, I love him.
I love Billy Joel. I know every one of his songs by heart. In my youth, I wore out 3 copies of ‘Greatest Hits 1 & 2.’ I still play his music all the time, but he’s wrong about his DJT quote, like so many. He is parroting what a hateful media put out, and not what was actually said. It’s 100% forgiven, because he’s just in that circle of folks who echo the media. I hope Joel knows how great his talent is, and can have that personal life that he has probably always wanted.
I used to play guitar with a combo band of a Cabaret back in the late 70 , smoky place, business people came there after work,beautiful waitresses , and the manager always smiling and greeting patrons sitting at the bar,i always remember those years when i listen "piano man"
I'm 25 yo from Indonesia. I like all of your song Billy. Come to Indonesia please.
Billy Joel has been through so many ups and downs, it's nice to see him looking and sounding relaxed and happy!!! He's a very inspiring person.
ICON.
true legend.....and his honesty is so refreshing about never being satisfied as a song writer...Love the vulnerability...He's just a kid from Long Island
I just turned 49, have been listening to Joel since age 8
1976-1982 was my favorite period.
Pretty close to me, but I'd have to throw in Piano Man and Streetlife Serenade.
We must protect this man at all costs.
You are amazing.....from the get go! You are the Beethoven of your generation...and many others’ generations. I feel so lucky to have seen you at MSG in 2017!😀😍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶