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>Actually my wife wanted to see Billy Joel very much; I liked him too but not $400-worth much :). But her wish was my command and we gladly paid for these tickets. And she enjoyed the concert very much. I did too but tend to be more "people watcher" than the concert watcher. It is interesting to see how people react. What really surprised me is to see a group of young men (no more than 20 yo) who came to see Billy Joel and were dancing, sharing food, and truly enjoying themselves. I thought that only old farts like me would like Billy Joel. This really raised the new generation in my eyes.
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>Speaking about Billy Joel, I like reading biographies and one that stands in my mind was late Phil Ramone's autobiography. He was Billy Joel's producer, there were a lot of their professional relationship in the book.

My wife gets upset with me sometimes when I give my opinion of Billy Joel.

I love his work up until the early 1980's.

The album "Songs in the Attic" is my favorite - I love the live version of "Miami 2017". Every track on that album is outstanding, and many of them have a great edge to them.

But I can't stand about 90% of the crap he did after meeting Christine Brinkley (or whatever her name is). When I hear "Uptown Girl", I mock it by singing "Up-chuck Girl". Or my alternate lyrics for "Tell Her About it..." (the most idiotic video I've ever seen)

"Keep it a secret...
Don't clue her in your past
Don't give her any reason
that you're secretly bad-ass"


As the UT great TC Holzer once said, "Kevin doesn't do touchy-feely". And that pretty much sums up most of Joel's later works....touchy feely. (Same thing applies for Phil Collins)