![]() Due to a bout of temporary insanity during the 70s, my father automatically dismissed any and all music coming out of New York. ” I figured the guy must have had something.ĭespite his status as one of the most successful pop-rock artists in history, I’ve rarely crossed paths with Billy Joel. Crews described as “an inherently unstable design, subject to frequent mechanical problems, and missing the basic advantages of conventional tape machines: namely fast forward and reverse. ![]() WOW! If there were Billy Joel fans willing to put up with what Andrew D. ![]() I eventually navigated over to The Stranger, where I saw something I’d never seen on a Wikipedia page: Fortunately, Irish Rail has Wi-Fi (Aer Lingus didn’t) so I looked up Billy Joel on Wikipedia. There I learned about his profound disdain for Donald Trump, thereby canceling the supermodel hangup. It’s bad enough when pop stars become obscenely wealthy, but when they marry other obscenely wealthy celebrities, it’s usually game over for me.Īs we rode the train down to Cork, I couldn’t figure out if I was being petty or had a valid reason for avoiding contact with Billy. I think my aversion to doing a Billy Joel review had something to do with Christie Brinkley. Mary put the meat in the cart I was still standing there trying to decide when the plane landed in Dublin. I had a Mary Tyler Moore moment-the one in the introductory credits where she’s in a supermarket and can’t decide whether to put the meat in the shopping cart or put it back. I frequently use flight time to study my spreadsheet and figure out what I’m going to do next, and I noticed that The Stranger was still in the “Maybe” column, right where I’d left it. The second thread took a while to fully manifest itself but originated on the flight to Ireland to escape the continental heatpocalypse. That statement earned The Stranger a cell in my Excel spreadsheet of review possibilities, under the “Maybe” column. The first was my assertion in my review of Marquee Moon that Billy Joel’s The Stranger helped make New York City cool again after a dismal decade. Two disparate threads came together to inspire me to review this album.
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