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About This Track
“Piano Man” was Billy Joel’s first major hit and is considered Joel’s signature song. The verses of the song are sung from the point of view of a bar piano player who focuses mainly on everyone else at the bar: John the bartender, the waitress, and bar regulars like Paul and Davy. Most of these characters have unfulfilled dreams, and the pianist’s job, it seems, is to help them “forget about life for a while”.
The chorus, in bar-room sing-along style, comes from the bar patrons themselves, who plead, “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 feeling alright.”
“Piano Man” has been released as a single and on several albums.
“Piano Man” is a fictionalized retelling of real people Joel met during his days as a piano-lounge singer in Los Angeles, after the failure of his first album, Cold Spring Harbor. Joel’s own personal feelings about this failure are expressed in the failed dreams of the characters in his song. At the time, Joel was trying to get out of a bad deal with the record company Family Productions, so, according to Joel, he was “hiding out” at the bar, performing under the name Bill Martin while Columbia Records tried to get him out of the deal.
“Piano Man” has been released as a single and on several albums.
“Piano Man” is a fictionalized retelling of real people Joel met during his days as a piano-lounge singer in Los Angeles, after the failure of his first album, Cold Spring Harbor. Joel’s own personal feelings about this failure are expressed in the failed dreams of the characters in his song. At the time, Joel was trying to get out of a bad deal with the record company Family Productions, so, according to Joel, he was “hiding out” at the bar, performing under the name Bill Martin while Columbia Records tried to get him out of the deal.
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SmokedGhouda wrote:
Classic
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AneezMom wrote:
Perfection.
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Angeleyes_619 wrote:
<3
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supermediadave wrote:
One of the best songs of my generation!
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christian29 wrote:
Wer Klavier spielt hat Glück bei den Frauen, sagt man... Super Song!
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
piano...how refreshing...lol...think BJ will play any?
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placebobsh wrote:
my favorite sing along of all time
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power2themusic wrote:
My mom gave me this on LP
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BALady1 wrote:
I love Billy Joel I listen to him all the time he tells such great stories about our humanity and the need to love one another.
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malou023 wrote:
love it... love it
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frisovandaalen wrote:
Reminds me of a recent funeral... amazing song...
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noiresque wrote:
There is a tinkling sting instrument in the second half of the choruses (... "He said 'son can you play me a memory?'/ He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me'/ And the waitress is practising politics/And the piano, it sounds like a carnival..."). A mandolin? A bandura? Any ideas anyone? I'm dying to know!
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spider-itsy wrote:
"Well, we're all in the mood for a melody"
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LunaticAssassin wrote:
One of my all time fav's!
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NapoleonL wrote:
i really like Billy Joel's -Piano man
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diversity-guy wrote:
@NitaD1: I've asked me the same question... and came to the same conclusion ;-)
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kemp678 wrote:
The lyrics.... excellent. The mood....CAPTURED!
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terzdame wrote:
i love this song!
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glasses-n-tape wrote:
this goes beyond music: this is life.
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nick_honest wrote:
a masterpiece!
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