One of the best! He has explained this song as part of his inner struggles as a young man and it's expressed in the piano playing, His left hand is "sadness"and his right hand is "euphoria". Brilliant!
Wow, I never knew that. Makes so much sense: the unity of form and content! Joel is just such a naturally intelligent person, despite lack of formal college degree. actually probably better that " standard " education did not socialize his uniqueness out of his creative life.
Such a profound song about the thin thread that allows to us hang on to our sanity. If there is oens single song from this talented man that reonates with me, this is it. Bravo.
That is because the left hand is the low end and the right hand is the high end of the notes. No different than the bi-polar manic-depressive existence many brilliant minds endure.
@@juansierra5704 Highland Falls, formerly named Buttermilk Falls, is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,900 at the 2010 census. The village was founded in 1906. It is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. Highland Falls is in the Town of Highlands and is adjacent to the United States Military Academy at West …
Don't forget Spring Valley and Monsey--- but the family knew him from Oceanside and and Rockville Centre-- Many resonate--maybe all of them--Captain Jack -- Italian Rest,
This piece digs deeper into Billy's bipolar see saw between happiness and despair than any other of his tunes I know of. I think it's one of this true musical genius's finest and mos memorable songs, although it is but one of many great songs Billy wrote and the band arranged. Great job, Billy and the guys!
i can't even express how much my love for this man grows, since i was 13 and now am 22. ah, if only i could play half as well as he, what a freaking genius, and magical inspiration.
Billy Joel sounded great at this venue. Songs in the Attic will always be a favorite of mine because it got me to explore some of his Pre- Stranger Material!
This is one of my absolute favorite songs by this incredible performer. Amazing performance. "It's either sadness or euphoria"...and both have the power to make me cry. Oh how I love man's music!
This song is about as close as you're going to get to perfection. Billy composes the music before he writes his lyrics and his synchronization of the two is truly extraordinary because you would think he had to write the lyrics first.
A STELLA VERSION of one of my favourite and most beautiful songs from one of my number one artists (,the other is Elton John). Thank you very much for the upload I really appreciate it.
Thanks Billy! You were blessed with wonderful music and I was blessed to be able to listen! Amazing lyrics! It is now 2013 and this song means more now, then it did when you wrote it!
This is the song of my life, my life indeed, and I remember when we listened it with my best friend… hope you can listen it also where are you now and that we will get together again…
As a professional & semi-professional bass player for the past 30 years who is now a public school music teacher, I just think he's freakin' talented (and yes, his music touches my soul too.)
replace one note..and there would be diminishment...replace one phrase...and the structure would fall..my favorite scene form Amadeus and fits perfectly here!!
As a former New Yorker, I have to say he formed a lot of the listening habit for teenagers through the 70's/80's, including mine. He sounds very good for his age. This was a great song.
9 febbraio 2024 .... Dopo aver visto Piano Man ai Grammy ... Sono tornato qui ❤️.... Talento completo ... Da giovane live era un portento ed ancora oggi non scherza 😜 Ai Grammy si è nettamente elevato sugli altri famosi ospiti 🎿👏🎹👏🎹
never get tired of this. i was looking at the name of the song , and can't help but think there should be a comma between the words Summer and Highland. i don't know ..... it just fits for me
#ugottalisten2b4udie How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies. Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies. And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives with our respective similarities _.
Actually, as a matter of fact, it seems to me that the way he plays it like this is the most depressing. The way played on the album is the happiest and the way he plays it present-day in concert at a lower tone is so-so.
Among,if not,his greatest piece of work..in my opinion as a huge Billy Joel fan..stupendous!
I'm so surprised this great song hasn't be picked up by sports producers over the years because it often is , sadness or euphoria in sports.
@@graemeandrew8747 agree wholeheartedly
This song takes me back to my 20s….
One of the best! He has explained this song as part of his inner struggles as a young man and it's expressed in the piano playing, His left hand is "sadness"and his right hand is "euphoria". Brilliant!
That is brilliant!
He has also said it's about his struggles with bi-polar. Or Manic-Depression.
Wow, I never knew that. Makes so much sense: the unity of form and content! Joel is just such a naturally intelligent person, despite lack of formal college degree. actually probably better that " standard " education did not socialize his uniqueness out of his creative life.
Interesting take
I did not know that. It has always been my favorite but now, even more so
“Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover’s eyes…”. “Our reason coexists with our insanity”. Just love this song.
How I adore this song..so very much..❤🎉😊
This song makes me high ✌️❤️
I love this song so much
Utterly outstanding. Def in the top 3 Billy songs.
Our generations most impressive lyricist. This is my favorite.
Such a profound song about the thin thread that allows to us hang on to our sanity. If there is oens single song from this talented man that reonates with me, this is it. Bravo.
That is because the left hand is the low end and the right hand is the high end of the notes. No different than the bi-polar manic-depressive existence many brilliant minds endure.
It's the way he feels that piano. Genius. I saw him live at Wembley in 1986, wonderful.
I can't stop crying. I'm so sick...and this remains me of my youth in Rockland County, NY.
I love your comment, I’m still in my youth, but I feel a sort of preemptive nostalgia from reading this and hearing this song
I could see that if it was called Summerr, Haverstraw or Summer, Nyack , but HF is in Orange County.
@@juansierra5704 Highland Falls, formerly named Buttermilk Falls, is a village in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,900 at the 2010 census. The village was founded in 1906. It is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.
Highland Falls is in the Town of Highlands and is adjacent to the United States Military Academy at West …
Don't forget Spring Valley and Monsey--- but the family knew him from Oceanside and and Rockville Centre-- Many resonate--maybe all of them--Captain Jack -- Italian Rest,
@@TheDimachaerus Where I live!
This piece digs deeper into Billy's bipolar see saw between happiness and despair than any other of his tunes I know of. I think it's one of this true musical genius's finest and mos memorable songs, although it is but one of many great songs Billy wrote and the band arranged. Great job, Billy and the guys!
i can't even express how much my love for this man grows, since i was 13 and now am 22. ah, if only i could play half as well as he, what a freaking genius, and magical inspiration.
Billy Joel sounded great at this venue. Songs in the Attic will always be a favorite of mine because it got me to explore some of his Pre- Stranger Material!
The opening. The best he ever did.
This is one of my absolute favorite songs by this incredible performer. Amazing performance. "It's either sadness or euphoria"...and both have the power to make me cry. Oh how I love man's music!
This song is about as close as you're going to get to perfection. Billy composes the music before he writes his lyrics and his synchronization of the two is truly extraordinary because you would think he had to write the lyrics first.
Non mi stancherò mai di ascoltare questa canzone x me la migliore il piano e la voce si fondono dando vita ad un capolavoro
this is the defining song of my life I think.
I agree with you completely. It’s been 9 years tho, idk if you’ll see this
@@tomkurtz3848and 3 years later will you see this? Where are we?
@@allencollins6031only 2 months :(
How amazing to have been there! Would so love to see Billy Joel at a venue like this and not some huge arena.
He's the greatest. Hands down ❤
I AM BLESS I SAW BILLY JOEL TWO TIMES IN MY LIFE. HE IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT
A STELLA VERSION of one of my favourite and most beautiful songs from one of my number one artists (,the other is Elton John). Thank you very much for the upload I really appreciate it.
This song is true sadness or euphoria.
love Billy Joel, my idol. Loving this in lockdown in Australia sept 2021
Thanks Billy! You were blessed with wonderful music and I was blessed to be able to listen! Amazing lyrics! It is now 2013 and this song means more now, then it did when you wrote it!
Try 2020
This is the song of my life, my life indeed, and I remember when we listened it with my best friend… hope you can listen it also where are you now and that we will get together again…
Damn what a way to put words in the music.
Just ONE of Billy's finest tunes. Amazing lyrics!
My favorite. A musical genius and a great person too
Great piece of art! Absolutley stunning""
16 febbraio 2023---- ascolto per la millesima volta il talento di Piano Man in questo autentico gioiello ...
Billy will always be handsome in my eyes, what a beautiful voice he has
Gives me goosebumbs and a warm happy feeling everytime I have the pleasure to listen to this song....
One of my all time favorite songs! 😊
As a professional & semi-professional bass player for the past 30 years who is now a public school music teacher, I just think he's freakin' talented (and yes, his music touches my soul too.)
The pride of Long Island!
Long Island in the house.
No! The Long Island Duck is!!
Just kiddin'
The best Billy Joel song.
23 novembre 2023 ... Ancora ascolto e guardo il talento di Piano Man
What a wonderful performance ! He sang the song being accompanied with only a piano in the music hall !
Fantastic song. One of my favorites of his.
2024: a masterpiece
Billy is a GOD when it comes to music,... His music touches my soul,.. and I know I'm not alone in feeling this way.
a genius song-writer.
Without a doubt one of his best. Check out the Shea Stadium version - it ROCKS
19- marzo 2023 ... Ancora qui .... Non resisto ... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Best done raw. Billy Joel is a musical genius.
Amazing voice composer pianist all Over the Times
best song ever
Yes. Always makes me
Melancholy
This is the song that lead me to his musical genius.
replace one note..and there would be diminishment...replace one phrase...and the structure would fall..my favorite scene form Amadeus and fits perfectly here!!
Favorite artist EVER!!!! Best song!!
Anche per me il miglior songwriter Piano Man
Una delle migliori di Billy Joel Ma le sue canzoni sono tutte di gran livello
Concordo!
Love this guy. So talented
Che meraviglia ..... Talento inimitabile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a former New Yorker, I have to say he formed a lot of the listening habit for teenagers through the 70's/80's, including mine. He sounds very good for his age. This was a great song.
I was about ten years old when this came out, on the album Cold Spring Harbor. I loved this song and didn't understand why it never got more attention
This came out on turnstiles not cold spring harbor
my favorite Billy Joel song...ironically we both had the same vocal teacher!
Same, this is also my favorite, among many. But this is #1
This will always be the most poignant of his songs, and he's sung a few.
my favorite song
I love this song and now my Kids do. Beautiful song excellent musician
This song is one of my favorites
Happy Birthday Billy!!! You're the greatest!
My favorite
Always loved this song.
This guy is a genius
9 febbraio 2024 .... Dopo aver visto Piano Man ai Grammy ... Sono tornato qui ❤️.... Talento completo ... Da giovane live era un portento ed ancora oggi non scherza 😜 Ai Grammy si è nettamente elevato sugli altri famosi ospiti 🎿👏🎹👏🎹
No one can touch him, period
Masterpiece.
And yet...also a work in progress simultaneously. But then again, so are both sadness and euphoria.
Ogni tanto riguardo questo filmato ..... Mi chiedo esiste qualcuno al suo livello musicale ? Che classe!!!!!
never get tired of this. i was looking at the name of the song , and can't help but think there should be a comma between the words Summer and Highland. i don't know ..... it just fits for me
I can relate as well,being a piano player all my life and a loyal billy joel fan all my life
Honesty is such a lonely word. But mostly what he gave us.
Here because I'm reading the Humans of New York Santa story!
love this tune!
I think is a bigger influence than he would admit to but he is a great artist. I love Billy Joel!!
I love this song. Nice performance.
after all, his sound is never change...
Flawless!
Had to come listen..after Humans of New York
wish he would play in concert.
Per Piano Man la musica un gioco facile 🎹👏🎹👏🎹👏🎹👏🎹👏
Well done mate !
You're the best
Sono ancora qui 7 Luglio 2023 👏🎹👏🎹👏🎹👏🎹
Incredible
#ugottalisten2b4udie
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies.
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies.
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
with our respective similarities _.
It actually came out on the album turnstiles mary grzeskowiak
Genius
Actually, as a matter of fact, it seems to me that the way he plays it like this is the most depressing. The way played on the album is the happiest and the way he plays it present-day in concert at a lower tone is so-so.
It is Sadness or euphoria
Anyone else read HONY story from Santa and need to hear the song?
You would make Billy happy with this comment.
outstanding
what would we do without him
Quei 5 non mi piace .... Forse sono prevenuti con Billy .... Una tale musicalità non si riscontra in nessun altro artista.
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thankyu !for uproad.
he talks about going after a jackson brown approach with this song
Anybody notice the NYPD shield on Joel’s coat?
Oggi 12 novembre segnalo che 8 persone non hanno gusto musicale ... Poiché è impossibile che non apprezzano questa melodia ....
Sweet
probably to adjust to lower voices at an older age, both he and Elton lower it now than in the 70s
6 agosto 2024 🎹💎👏🎹💎👏🎹💎👏🎹💎👏