"Billy Joel: And So It Goes" Part Two

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:51,130 --> 00:00:52,920 Ah, key change. 3 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,380 It's like a flat. 4 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,510 One half step down. 5 00:01:44,970 --> 00:01:46,350 Mmm, yeah 6 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:49,810 Alright 7 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,900 Yeah! 8 00:02:05,750 --> 00:02:08,580 I don't need you to worry for me 9 00:02:08,580 --> 00:02:10,790 'Cause I'm alright 10 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,840 I don't want you to tell me it's time 11 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,670 To come home 12 00:02:20,510 --> 00:02:23,010 I don't care what you say anymore 13 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:24,890 This is my life 14 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,850 Go ahead with your own life 15 00:02:29,850 --> 00:02:34,070 Leave me alone 16 00:02:34,770 --> 00:02:36,730 Keep it to yourself 17 00:02:36,730 --> 00:02:38,820 It's my life... 18 00:02:39,650 --> 00:02:42,160 I don't like being told what to do. 19 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,620 I never did. 20 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:48,790 They will tell you you can't sleep alone 21 00:02:48,790 --> 00:02:50,830 In a strange place... 22 00:02:51,620 --> 00:02:52,880 When I was growing up, 23 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:54,670 it was, "You're going to graduate high school, 24 00:02:54,670 --> 00:02:56,000 "you're going to college, 25 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,260 you're going to get a good job, that's it." 26 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:00,220 And there was really nothing beyond that. 27 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:03,140 Ah, but sooner or later you sleep 28 00:03:03,140 --> 00:03:05,550 In your own space... 29 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,930 And I thought, wait a minute, that doesn't really suit 30 00:03:07,930 --> 00:03:09,430 what I want my life to be. 31 00:03:09,930 --> 00:03:11,770 I want to be something different. 32 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,270 That's kind of my life's philosophy. 33 00:03:16,940 --> 00:03:19,070 If I want to do it, I'll do it. 34 00:03:19,070 --> 00:03:22,070 I don't need your authority to get me there. 35 00:03:22,070 --> 00:03:23,910 Keep it to yourself 36 00:03:23,910 --> 00:03:26,530 It's my life 37 00:03:45,220 --> 00:03:49,390 The pop music artist of the '70s known as "The Piano Man" is alive 38 00:03:49,390 --> 00:03:51,770 and doing rather well in the '80s. 39 00:03:51,770 --> 00:03:54,140 Proof of that could be found in Cincinnati tonight. 40 00:03:54,150 --> 00:03:55,690 Dan Royal was there. 41 00:03:55,690 --> 00:03:59,150 At age 33, Billy Joel has been 29 years on the piano. 42 00:03:59,150 --> 00:04:01,650 1973 was a turning point in his career, 43 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:04,070 some say, with the song "Piano Man." 44 00:04:04,070 --> 00:04:06,820 National attention followed by a string of hits. 45 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,490 But just about a year ago, another milestone: 46 00:04:09,490 --> 00:04:10,950 the motorcycle accident. 47 00:04:10,950 --> 00:04:13,790 The wrist got broken. Wrist is, you know, it's... 48 00:04:13,790 --> 00:04:15,960 I don't have full range of motion in it. 49 00:04:16,460 --> 00:04:17,920 I should be able to get my hand down further, 50 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,290 but I can't. 51 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:20,750 And the thumb got crushed. 52 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,920 So there's a piece of bone missing in the thumb. 53 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:24,760 It hurts. 54 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,760 But, I mean, this is rock and roll. 55 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,600 I'm not Vladimir Horowitz here. 56 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:35,190 In the past year, Joel has split with his wife. 57 00:04:35,190 --> 00:04:37,360 You'd think that and the accident 58 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:39,310 would tone this guy down a little. 59 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,240 I accept it with quiet dignity and grace. 60 00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:46,360 I do not want to live! 61 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,370 And the dogs go mad in packs on the west side 62 00:04:49,370 --> 00:04:51,160 Have you been taking very good care of Billy? 63 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:52,740 I hear that you've had a few personal problems, 64 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:54,120 but you've got a new manager now and... 65 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,540 No, they beat me up every night. 66 00:04:56,290 --> 00:04:57,290 Yeah. 67 00:04:57,290 --> 00:04:58,670 You know that motorcycle accident? 68 00:04:58,670 --> 00:05:00,710 I was driving the car. 69 00:05:00,710 --> 00:05:03,920 While the millionaires hide in Beekman Place 70 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:06,680 The bag ladies throw their bones in my face 71 00:05:09,220 --> 00:05:12,310 I don't wanna hear it but he won't turn it down 72 00:05:12,310 --> 00:05:14,730 For those who had any doubt, Billy is back. 73 00:05:14,730 --> 00:05:16,640 And the strange thing about it, 74 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,600 the crowds never seem to have left. 75 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,690 The album "Glass Houses" was great to play live. 76 00:05:24,690 --> 00:05:29,530 It had stronger dynamics to get across in a big venue. 77 00:05:29,530 --> 00:05:32,950 It was closer to the rock and roll music 78 00:05:32,950 --> 00:05:35,120 that used to excite me when I was younger. 79 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:37,750 And after that album was done, 80 00:05:37,750 --> 00:05:40,210 I wanted to completely change direction. 81 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,550 I was going through a divorce. 82 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:46,220 I was reevaluating everything in my life. 83 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,390 I wanted to do something more serious. 84 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,810 I went into the studio last year 85 00:05:57,810 --> 00:05:59,270 to do this album, 86 00:05:59,270 --> 00:06:00,690 but I got hung up finishing it 87 00:06:00,690 --> 00:06:02,440 because I'd had a motorcycle accident, 88 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,610 and that kind of threw the whole scheduling off 89 00:06:04,610 --> 00:06:05,780 and everything. 90 00:06:07,950 --> 00:06:10,660 It took a long time to make, but I'm glad I stuck with it. 91 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,580 Billy doesn't have that much patience in the studio making a record. 92 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:19,330 I would say "The Nylon Curtain" was the exception. 93 00:06:20,250 --> 00:06:23,710 I wanted to make a real sonic masterpiece. 94 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,010 Normally, you would use the studio 95 00:06:28,010 --> 00:06:30,430 to capture something that you were creating. 96 00:06:30,430 --> 00:06:33,550 In this case, there was a lot of work in the studio 97 00:06:33,550 --> 00:06:36,560 using the technology to finish the song. 98 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:39,060 I was experimenting playing the studio 99 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:40,400 as an instrument. 100 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,770 He was creating moods and soundscapes, 101 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:45,610 like in "Scandinavian Skies." 102 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:53,830 I could play the blues all night 103 00:06:54,410 --> 00:06:58,200 Ah 104 00:06:58,910 --> 00:07:00,960 It was an incredibly fertile time 105 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,080 musically and creatively for Billy. 106 00:07:06,460 --> 00:07:09,380 They started changing what I was hearing in my headphones. 107 00:07:09,380 --> 00:07:11,010 The vocal sounded different. 108 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:12,510 The echo sounded different. 109 00:07:12,510 --> 00:07:14,930 I said, oh, wow, I can write to that. 110 00:07:15,970 --> 00:07:19,270 Pressure! Pressure! 111 00:07:19,270 --> 00:07:22,900 It's so fucking weird and avant garde. 112 00:07:23,690 --> 00:07:26,980 I wanted to create something where the sound was 113 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:29,490 as important as the notes themselves. 114 00:07:32,990 --> 00:07:36,120 For "Pressure," I'm hearing this Tchaikovsky like... 115 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,210 And I want to hear mandolins and balalaikas. 116 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:45,790 Phil Ramone found these Russian balalaika players, 117 00:07:45,790 --> 00:07:47,170 brought them all into the studio. 118 00:07:47,170 --> 00:07:48,920 Which is kind of weird, walking in the studio, 119 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,170 seeing all these old guys with these old instruments. 120 00:07:51,510 --> 00:07:54,380 But it was very cool. And it sounded great. 121 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:56,220 Six balalaika players, for what? 122 00:07:56,220 --> 00:07:57,760 In a semicircle. 123 00:08:01,310 --> 00:08:03,560 You're kidding me. No, that's what we want to do. 124 00:08:04,350 --> 00:08:06,270 Pressure! 125 00:08:08,610 --> 00:08:10,280 One, two, three, four... 126 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,490 Pressure! 127 00:08:15,740 --> 00:08:18,780 I'm probably the most proud of that album 128 00:08:18,780 --> 00:08:20,660 as a work of sonic art. 129 00:08:21,450 --> 00:08:24,120 And it was a transition in how I wrote. 130 00:08:24,790 --> 00:08:26,710 Because the music kind of directed me 131 00:08:26,710 --> 00:08:28,670 towards writing a different kind of lyric. 132 00:08:28,670 --> 00:08:31,510 It can't just be about love and girlfriends. 133 00:08:31,510 --> 00:08:32,960 It has to be serious. 134 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:35,300 Because the music was more serious. 135 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,220 I had grown up. I wasn't in my 20s anymore. 136 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:42,270 It wasn't just about rock and roll. 137 00:08:42,270 --> 00:08:43,850 It was about the world. 138 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:47,480 It was the era of Reagan 139 00:08:47,810 --> 00:08:49,810 which was supposed to be the shining city on the hill, 140 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:52,690 but there was a lot of underbelly stuff going on. 141 00:08:52,690 --> 00:08:56,360 The promise of America wasn't there anymore. 142 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,160 Things were really changing. 143 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,920 Well, we're living here in Allentown 144 00:09:14,380 --> 00:09:17,590 And they're closing all the factories down... 145 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:20,890 The steel industry was dying in Pennsylvania. 146 00:09:20,890 --> 00:09:22,260 People were out of work. 147 00:09:22,270 --> 00:09:24,060 This was in the headlines every day. 148 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:27,060 ...here in Allentown 149 00:09:27,060 --> 00:09:29,980 But they've taken all the coal from the ground 150 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:33,440 At a certain point, he sort of turned his attention to songs like "Allentown." 151 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,740 The camera pulls back, and you see us all 152 00:09:35,740 --> 00:09:37,450 in a particular place in time. 153 00:09:38,530 --> 00:09:41,990 Every child had a pretty good shot 154 00:09:41,990 --> 00:09:45,910 To get at least as far as their old man got 155 00:09:45,910 --> 00:09:49,370 I think he really got a lot of what he was trying to go for. 156 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:51,500 It was very much a Billy Joel song 157 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,800 and very much a song about something larger than him. 158 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,220 ...place 159 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,050 Whoa 160 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,470 And it's getting very hard to stay 161 00:10:05,470 --> 00:10:09,940 And we're living here in Allentown 162 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:12,690 The egalitarian nature of that song, 163 00:10:12,690 --> 00:10:16,650 a connection to working people, that's really important in his music. 164 00:10:17,150 --> 00:10:20,200 His songs relate to people. 165 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,280 He knows what will reach someone, 166 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,990 because he's felt it himself. 167 00:10:24,990 --> 00:10:26,750 So he's got the passion, 168 00:10:26,750 --> 00:10:30,750 and I think it starts in the purity of the music. 169 00:10:34,630 --> 00:10:36,840 He cares about the human experience. 170 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,130 There's no bullshit. 171 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:40,640 He wrote songs that matter. 172 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,180 We met as soulmates 173 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:52,400 On Parris Island 174 00:10:53,060 --> 00:10:55,610 There's a song on "The Nylon Curtain" 175 00:10:55,610 --> 00:10:59,110 that I wrote for my friends who were veterans of Vietnam. 176 00:10:59,110 --> 00:11:01,950 They told me they wanted me to write a song for them, 177 00:11:01,950 --> 00:11:04,240 and I said, well, I didn't go to Vietnam. 178 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,490 I don't think I have credibility to write a song. 179 00:11:06,490 --> 00:11:08,120 And they said, "We'll tell you what we went through." 180 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:13,130 ...sharp as sharp as knives 181 00:11:14,460 --> 00:11:19,970 And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives 182 00:11:21,010 --> 00:11:24,220 There was never a song really written from the soldier's point of view, 183 00:11:24,220 --> 00:11:27,140 who was the guy over there getting his ass shot off. 184 00:11:28,430 --> 00:11:30,020 Not whether it was wrong, whether it was right. 185 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:32,060 It was just: How did you feel when you were over there? 186 00:11:33,310 --> 00:11:37,440 And we held onto each other 187 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,030 Like brother to brother 188 00:11:41,030 --> 00:11:43,490 All art has political implications. 189 00:11:43,490 --> 00:11:45,660 But Billy's thing was less political 190 00:11:45,660 --> 00:11:48,410 than just pure attitude. 191 00:11:48,410 --> 00:11:52,790 Billy's angry young man thing was literally just that, 192 00:11:52,790 --> 00:11:55,790 you know, it wasn't an angry activist young man. 193 00:11:56,590 --> 00:11:58,590 One of the things I like about Billy's writing 194 00:11:58,590 --> 00:12:00,840 is that he never directly goes there. 195 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,720 It's also a part of why the material hasn't dated. 196 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,350 ...all go down together 197 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:16,610 Yes, we will all go down together 198 00:12:18,770 --> 00:12:20,110 When I listen to "Goodnight Saigon," 199 00:12:20,110 --> 00:12:23,400 I'm not thinking about the socio-political ramifications 200 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,820 of the Vietnam War. 201 00:12:24,820 --> 00:12:26,660 I'm thinking about the guys in that song. 202 00:12:26,990 --> 00:12:30,200 I think Billy Joel at his best writes about people, 203 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,500 not causes or concepts. 204 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,130 Thank you. 205 00:12:37,710 --> 00:12:38,960 You've been incredible. 206 00:12:43,130 --> 00:12:46,300 I've never liked getting political onstage. 207 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:48,430 People want to get away from a lot of that stuff, 208 00:12:48,430 --> 00:12:49,510 I realize that. 209 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,100 But sometimes, there are things that happen, 210 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:56,900 and you can't just look away. 211 00:12:58,060 --> 00:13:01,070 When I wore the yellow Star of David 212 00:13:01,650 --> 00:13:04,190 about a week after Charlottesville, 213 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,200 The Unite the Right rally... 214 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:09,490 Jews will not replace us! 215 00:13:09,950 --> 00:13:11,950 ...I had to do something. 216 00:13:11,950 --> 00:13:13,450 I was angry. Here they are 217 00:13:13,450 --> 00:13:15,330 marching through an American city 218 00:13:15,330 --> 00:13:18,080 saying, "Jews will not replace us." 219 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,090 We fought a war to, you know, defeat these people. 220 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,260 And then when Trump comes out and says, 221 00:13:26,260 --> 00:13:28,840 "There were very fine people on both sides." 222 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,970 You had people that were... 223 00:13:32,060 --> 00:13:34,020 very fine people on both sides. 224 00:13:34,020 --> 00:13:37,100 You know, he should have come out and said those are bad people. 225 00:13:37,940 --> 00:13:39,190 There is no qualifying it. 226 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,980 The Nazis are not good people. Period. 227 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:44,400 And I was angry. 228 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:45,690 I was very angry, and I had to do something. 229 00:13:45,690 --> 00:13:48,660 But I didn't want to get up on a soapbox onstage 230 00:13:48,660 --> 00:13:49,820 and say this is wrong. 231 00:13:50,370 --> 00:13:52,450 So I wore the star, 232 00:13:52,450 --> 00:13:53,910 basically to say... 233 00:13:55,620 --> 00:13:56,750 no matter what, 234 00:13:57,580 --> 00:13:59,880 I will always be a Jew. 235 00:14:06,550 --> 00:14:08,010 I am a Jew. 236 00:14:09,970 --> 00:14:13,890 My father grew up in Germany in a well-to-do family. 237 00:14:14,810 --> 00:14:18,270 I only met my father's parents a few times. 238 00:14:18,270 --> 00:14:20,060 They were very proud to be German. 239 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,480 They weren't practicing Jews. 240 00:14:23,020 --> 00:14:26,030 My father got bar mitzvahed, and that was it. 241 00:14:26,030 --> 00:14:27,700 They really didn't go to synagogue. 242 00:14:28,150 --> 00:14:29,570 But in Germany, 243 00:14:29,570 --> 00:14:31,910 if your family was Jewish, you were a Jew. 244 00:14:34,030 --> 00:14:36,540 My paternal grandfather, Karl Joel, 245 00:14:36,540 --> 00:14:42,080 had a business called Joel Macht Fabrik in Nuremberg, 246 00:14:42,670 --> 00:14:45,750 and they had a factory where they made textiles 247 00:14:45,750 --> 00:14:46,960 and clothing. 248 00:14:47,630 --> 00:14:50,180 His business was doing very, very well 249 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,930 until the Nazis came to power. 250 00:14:55,180 --> 00:14:56,390 They were wealthy people. 251 00:14:57,430 --> 00:14:59,980 They lived in a nice house next to a park. 252 00:15:00,850 --> 00:15:04,770 The park was where they had the Nazi Nuremberg rallies. 253 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:07,610 Heil! 254 00:15:07,610 --> 00:15:10,110 Heil! Heil! 255 00:15:10,780 --> 00:15:13,160 Heil! Heil! 256 00:15:29,630 --> 00:15:31,550 My dad would look over the fence 257 00:15:31,550 --> 00:15:33,800 while they were doing all these anti-Semitic speeches 258 00:15:34,550 --> 00:15:36,220 and see this going on. 259 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,350 I can't imagine the trauma 260 00:15:38,350 --> 00:15:42,730 to watch the SS parade espousing these principles. 261 00:15:43,770 --> 00:15:46,900 He was born in 1923, so he was 10 262 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,650 when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. 263 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,650 Things got nasty. 264 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:57,910 The German government revoked the citizenship 265 00:15:57,910 --> 00:15:59,870 of anyone who was Jewish. 266 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:03,750 You couldn't sit in the park. 267 00:16:04,790 --> 00:16:06,170 You couldn't walk on the street. 268 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:08,090 You had no rights at all. 269 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,260 The Jewish kids in the school had 270 00:16:11,260 --> 00:16:13,180 to sit on the other side of the class. 271 00:16:17,890 --> 00:16:19,680 Eventually, he couldn't even go to school. 272 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:24,440 There was a newspaper editor, Julius Streicher, 273 00:16:24,770 --> 00:16:26,850 who had a couple of anti-Semitic newspapers 274 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:27,980 that they published. 275 00:16:27,980 --> 00:16:29,780 "Der Stürmer" was the big one. 276 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,900 They would target my grandfather. 277 00:16:32,530 --> 00:16:34,990 "The Jew Joel," he was referred to. 278 00:16:37,740 --> 00:16:40,160 Eventually, these ordinances and laws, 279 00:16:40,740 --> 00:16:43,910 anti-Semitic newspapers took a toll on the business. 280 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,920 They had to stamp everything that they mailed out 281 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:48,500 with a "J" for "Jew." 282 00:16:49,380 --> 00:16:52,550 I don't know why he thought he could survive this, 283 00:16:52,550 --> 00:16:54,380 because it was becoming apparent 284 00:16:54,930 --> 00:16:57,550 that no Jewish business was going to be able to survive. 285 00:16:57,970 --> 00:17:00,260 He must have been an optimist 286 00:17:00,850 --> 00:17:03,180 or just didn't want to see it, 287 00:17:03,180 --> 00:17:04,480 didn't want to know it. 288 00:17:07,020 --> 00:17:09,690 They were forced to sell the business for nothing. 289 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,150 You know, like pennies on the dollar, 290 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:14,940 to a guy named Neckermann. 291 00:17:14,950 --> 00:17:17,200 But Neckermann never paid. 292 00:17:17,780 --> 00:17:20,990 My grandfather was asking what he should do to get the money 293 00:17:21,830 --> 00:17:25,250 and he got a message, "We'll settle the account." 294 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,500 He was warned at the last minute, you know, watch out. 295 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:30,590 They're going to kill you. 296 00:17:32,130 --> 00:17:34,340 My grandfather realized this is it. 297 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,300 I better leave while I can. And he was lucky. 298 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:39,640 They got to go across the Swiss border 299 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,810 which was difficult for a lot of people. 300 00:17:44,020 --> 00:17:47,850 If my grandparents had been found on the train 301 00:17:47,850 --> 00:17:49,650 with the documents that said "Jew," 302 00:17:49,650 --> 00:17:52,860 they would have been sent immediately to a concentration camp. 303 00:17:53,230 --> 00:17:55,150 They got out. A miracle. 304 00:17:57,070 --> 00:17:58,610 The ironic thing is, 305 00:17:58,610 --> 00:18:00,990 when Neckermann took over the business, 306 00:18:00,990 --> 00:18:02,700 they actually started to manufacture 307 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:04,200 the striped pajamas 308 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,200 that the prisoners in the concentration camps 309 00:18:06,210 --> 00:18:07,290 had to wear. 310 00:18:07,710 --> 00:18:09,670 That was made by Joel Macht Fabrik. 311 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,800 I didn't know any of that until I was in my mid-20s. 312 00:18:18,510 --> 00:18:19,760 There's still a lot I don't know. 313 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,390 I'm still trying to put the pieces together. 314 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,310 I didn't know my father at all 315 00:18:24,810 --> 00:18:27,560 from the time I was about eight years old 316 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,520 until I was in my mid-20s. 317 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,110 Tried to... 318 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,190 figure out where he was, 319 00:18:34,190 --> 00:18:36,900 how I could contact him, but nobody knew. 320 00:18:39,450 --> 00:18:42,570 Well, so here I am 321 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:45,160 At the end of the road 322 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,870 Where do I go from here? 323 00:18:48,870 --> 00:18:53,040 When I was 21, 22, I went to Europe. 324 00:18:54,210 --> 00:18:57,090 I played in clubs, and I played in these little bars 325 00:18:57,090 --> 00:18:59,130 and showcase places. 326 00:19:01,050 --> 00:19:04,140 And I figured maybe I could track down my father somewhere 327 00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:06,350 because I never heard from him. 328 00:19:06,350 --> 00:19:08,680 I never got a card, not a phone call, nothing. 329 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,190 And I was wondering, is he dead or alive? I didn't know. 330 00:19:11,190 --> 00:19:15,020 And it's hard 331 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,780 The day I was leaving to go back to the States, 332 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,150 I get a telegram, 333 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,070 and it says, "We found your father." 334 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:25,870 And, oh, my God, they found my father. 335 00:19:25,870 --> 00:19:27,240 Where? How do I do that? 336 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,660 And then I found out my father lived in Vienna. 337 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:39,130 I went to visit my father's apartment, 338 00:19:39,130 --> 00:19:41,550 and there was a little blonde boy. 339 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,510 I found out I had a half-brother. 340 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,600 I met Bill when I was five. 341 00:19:50,810 --> 00:19:52,140 I remember that moment. 342 00:19:53,310 --> 00:19:56,650 It was my first day in school. And I just got out of school. 343 00:19:57,150 --> 00:19:58,480 He read me a goodnight story. 344 00:19:59,860 --> 00:20:01,440 I saw pictures of my father 345 00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:03,280 playing in the snow and skiing. 346 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,700 And I said, you never did that with me. 347 00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,620 How come... What did I do? 348 00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:09,450 How come I never heard nothing? 349 00:20:11,250 --> 00:20:13,750 I had conflicting feelings about it, 350 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:17,040 but he had a very strange life. 351 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:21,630 He fought in the US Army under General Patton. 352 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:23,840 They liberated Dachau. 353 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:25,970 I tried to get him to talk about it, 354 00:20:25,970 --> 00:20:29,100 but he didn't really want to talk about his past. 355 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:32,060 And I heard most of it from my brother. 356 00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:36,650 In the first week, he was there 357 00:20:36,650 --> 00:20:40,280 after it was liberated and saw the terrible things. 358 00:20:43,610 --> 00:20:46,490 It was something that deeply traumatized him. 359 00:20:48,990 --> 00:20:50,950 And then I found out about my father's family. 360 00:20:51,830 --> 00:20:53,120 They were hunted. 361 00:20:54,750 --> 00:20:56,580 Many from my family were in Auschwitz. 362 00:20:57,210 --> 00:21:00,130 Our whole family, most of them were killed. 363 00:21:02,550 --> 00:21:04,340 I visited the graveyard 364 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:06,470 where the Joel family's buried, 365 00:21:06,970 --> 00:21:09,550 and I didn't even know I had that many relatives. 366 00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:15,390 There's an underlying rage that comes out sometimes. 367 00:21:15,390 --> 00:21:16,940 And it's, "What are you getting all mad about? 368 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:20,230 Nobody did anything to you." But they wiped out my family. 369 00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:22,280 I would have liked to have known some of these people. 370 00:21:27,030 --> 00:21:29,700 And so, my father, he was very internal. 371 00:21:30,330 --> 00:21:31,870 Very dark man. 372 00:21:31,870 --> 00:21:34,000 And he told me once when I was a little kid, 373 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,210 "Life is a cesspool." 374 00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:39,670 Wow. That's not a great outlook on life. 375 00:21:41,590 --> 00:21:45,340 After he moved to the States, he didn't really take to America. 376 00:21:48,050 --> 00:21:49,720 He thought it was too commercial. 377 00:21:50,260 --> 00:21:51,680 Lacking in culture. 378 00:21:52,810 --> 00:21:56,230 And the anti-Semitism he ran into embittered him a good deal. 379 00:21:57,730 --> 00:22:00,310 And then when my grandparents decided 380 00:22:00,310 --> 00:22:02,230 they were going to move back to Germany, 381 00:22:02,230 --> 00:22:05,860 my father and mother divorced around that time, 382 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:08,990 and he moved back to Europe. 383 00:22:14,410 --> 00:22:17,080 I was there when Billy met with his dad. 384 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,080 His father walks in, and nobody's saying anything, 385 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,630 but you could see the angst. 386 00:22:24,550 --> 00:22:26,090 It was awkward. 387 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,680 How do you reconnect with your father? 388 00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:30,930 How does he reconnect with his son? 389 00:22:31,390 --> 00:22:34,220 I guess we were too shy to talk to each other. 390 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,930 We just kind of spent time being near each other 391 00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:40,020 and trying to warm it up 392 00:22:40,020 --> 00:22:41,940 and figure out how to communicate. 393 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:44,360 Neither of us knew how to do it. 394 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:54,080 Those thoughts marinated. 395 00:22:55,740 --> 00:23:00,620 And one day, I just sat down and started writing this song. 396 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:03,880 This is for my father. Okay. Here we go. 397 00:23:20,140 --> 00:23:23,270 Slow down you crazy child 398 00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:26,570 You're so ambitious for a juvenile 399 00:23:26,570 --> 00:23:28,690 But then if you're so smart 400 00:23:28,690 --> 00:23:32,110 Tell me why are you still so afraid? 401 00:23:32,610 --> 00:23:34,830 Hmm 402 00:23:35,450 --> 00:23:38,040 Where's the fire? What's the hurry about? 403 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,960 You better cool it off before you burn it out 404 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,960 You got so much to do and only so many... 405 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,920 I've had the privilege of getting to know Billy personally. 406 00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:51,550 And Billy had a lot of trauma in his young life. 407 00:23:52,380 --> 00:23:54,010 When you look at some of Billy's songs, 408 00:23:54,010 --> 00:23:56,430 you see a glimpse of this. 409 00:23:57,060 --> 00:23:59,470 When will you realize 410 00:24:00,270 --> 00:24:02,980 Vienna waits for you? 411 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,060 "Vienna waits for you." 412 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:08,280 I suppose it's what I was searching for. 413 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:10,320 You know, my father was there. 414 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,900 I know I was searching for him. 415 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,360 But beyond my father, 416 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:16,910 it's the music city of the world. 417 00:24:16,910 --> 00:24:18,740 So it has a lot of meaning. 418 00:24:18,740 --> 00:24:20,410 There's a lot of different layers to it. 419 00:24:21,790 --> 00:24:24,500 Too bad, but it's the life you lead 420 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,380 You're so ahead of yourself 421 00:24:26,380 --> 00:24:28,210 That you forgot what you need... 422 00:24:28,210 --> 00:24:32,300 I think Billy's story is way deeper psychologically 423 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:34,340 than Billy wants to know. 424 00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:37,050 You're right 425 00:24:37,050 --> 00:24:38,640 There are certain traumas 426 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,270 that one never gets over, 427 00:24:41,270 --> 00:24:43,350 and there are certain motivators in life 428 00:24:43,350 --> 00:24:45,150 that sometimes we're not even aware of. 429 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,480 But I think his drive comes from wanting to know 430 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,820 his father through music. 431 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,320 When will you realize 432 00:24:54,740 --> 00:24:59,870 Vienna waits for you? 433 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:16,510 Alright. Thank you. 434 00:25:17,090 --> 00:25:19,930 Now, I want to try playing the piano with my father 435 00:25:19,930 --> 00:25:21,260 if he'll come up and do it. 436 00:25:31,230 --> 00:25:34,320 There was always a remoteness, there was always a distance. 437 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,490 He was one of those people who kind of held you off. 438 00:25:42,490 --> 00:25:44,040 I wanted to be close to him. 439 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,540 I would have liked my father to have been proud of me. 440 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:50,290 I would have liked to have talked to him about music and life. 441 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,380 But we never really made a strong connection. 442 00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:00,260 Never really had that magic moment. 443 00:26:02,930 --> 00:26:04,100 It's disappointing. 444 00:26:09,650 --> 00:26:14,570 Where's the orchestra? 445 00:26:15,650 --> 00:26:20,950 Wasn't this supposed to be a musical? 446 00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:26,710 Here I am in the balcony 447 00:26:27,830 --> 00:26:32,790 How the hell could I have missed the overture? 448 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:35,800 I like... 449 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:36,920 "Where's the Orchestra?" was 450 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,090 the last song I wrote 451 00:26:38,090 --> 00:26:39,930 on "The Nylon Curtain" album. 452 00:26:39,930 --> 00:26:43,050 Even though I have 453 00:26:43,050 --> 00:26:48,600 Absolutely no 454 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,690 Idea at all 455 00:26:50,690 --> 00:26:52,480 It was a song of disillusionment. 456 00:26:52,980 --> 00:26:55,320 It's a summation of life for me. 457 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,190 Life is not a musical, it's a Greek tragedy. 458 00:26:58,190 --> 00:27:03,830 Where's the orchestra? 459 00:27:07,580 --> 00:27:10,580 Goodnight, D.C. Don't take any shit from anybody. 460 00:27:12,420 --> 00:27:14,000 I was wiped out emotionally, 461 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,210 physically from doing "The Nylon Curtain." 462 00:27:16,210 --> 00:27:18,590 I felt like I was close to death. 463 00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:21,930 I'd been on the road year after year after year, 464 00:27:21,930 --> 00:27:26,220 writing, recording, touring, on and on and on. 465 00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:28,180 And I'd really never taken a vacation. 466 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,850 So I was talking with Paul Simon, who was a friend. 467 00:27:31,850 --> 00:27:33,770 He said, "Why don't you go to this place 468 00:27:33,770 --> 00:27:35,310 down in the Caribbean called Saint Barts." 469 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,570 I never heard of it. 470 00:27:36,570 --> 00:27:39,070 "It's really quiet. It's real chill. 471 00:27:39,070 --> 00:27:40,280 "You'll really like it. 472 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,950 Nobody's going to bother you." 473 00:27:43,030 --> 00:27:45,450 So I took his advice and I went to Saint Barts. 474 00:27:46,530 --> 00:27:47,530 I just thought this is going to be 475 00:27:47,540 --> 00:27:48,740 a quiet little island. 476 00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:51,080 Let me tell you a story 477 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,670 There you go. 478 00:27:52,670 --> 00:27:54,670 Christie Brinkley has hooked the brass ring 479 00:27:54,670 --> 00:27:56,460 on the modeling merry-go-round. 480 00:27:58,210 --> 00:27:59,800 This golden girl from California 481 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,510 has run up the astounding record 482 00:28:01,510 --> 00:28:04,800 of appearing on more than 100 magazine covers. 483 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,810 She was always Christie Lee 484 00:28:08,390 --> 00:28:09,850 I was on a shoot. 485 00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:11,560 We were in Saint Barts. 486 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,350 One of the people from our crew 487 00:28:13,350 --> 00:28:15,060 comes running in and goes, 488 00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:18,020 "Oh, my God, you guys, Billy Joel's at the PLM." 489 00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:22,650 We zip over to the PLM, and he's sitting at the bar. 490 00:28:26,410 --> 00:28:27,700 One of the things I love about Billy 491 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,160 is he's never comfortable in a room 492 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,290 until he sees a piano. 493 00:28:32,330 --> 00:28:33,960 He doesn't perform so other people 494 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,250 can hear him play. 495 00:28:35,250 --> 00:28:37,080 It's like his security blanket. 496 00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:39,170 So it isn't surprising he's down there. 497 00:28:39,170 --> 00:28:40,710 He's in Saint Barts. 498 00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:42,970 He's in a bar. There's a piano. 499 00:28:42,970 --> 00:28:44,300 He sits down to play. 500 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,050 And he looks up, and there are 501 00:28:46,050 --> 00:28:48,970 these amazingly beautiful models staring down at him. 502 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:51,010 He's burned to a crisp. 503 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:53,430 He's got, like, a Hawaiian shirt on or something, 504 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,270 you know, like his holiday shirt. 505 00:28:57,190 --> 00:28:59,270 I said, oh, my God, this is fantastic. 506 00:28:59,270 --> 00:29:01,230 Thank you so much, Mr. Piano. 507 00:29:01,230 --> 00:29:03,280 Right away, he cracked me up. 508 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,900 He was so funny. 509 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:07,490 And he's like, "Let me play a couple songs for you." 510 00:29:07,490 --> 00:29:08,990 There's a piano bench, 511 00:29:08,990 --> 00:29:11,290 so I go over and sit next to him and he goes, 512 00:29:11,290 --> 00:29:12,450 "What kind of music do you like?" 513 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:14,620 And I just launch into, 514 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:19,040 Olha que coisa mais linda mais cheia de graça 515 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,880 And I'm doing the singing, 516 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,340 and Billy's kind of like, you know, "Okay, alright." 517 00:29:24,340 --> 00:29:26,550 He's playing the song, and I'm singing. 518 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,890 And then, in comes Elle MacPherson. 519 00:29:30,890 --> 00:29:32,680 She is a huge Billy Joel fan. 520 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,430 She's got this gorgeous body, 521 00:29:34,430 --> 00:29:36,520 and she's draping the gorgeous body 522 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,060 all over the place to try and get his attention. 523 00:29:40,190 --> 00:29:43,280 So I'm chatting up Elle, I'm chatting up Christie. 524 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,820 All of a sudden, this young girl 525 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:49,160 comes over and goes, "Well, I can sing too." 526 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,570 Yeah, yeah, sure you are. 527 00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:52,490 Like, hey, don't bother me, kid. 528 00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:54,830 This young, beautiful girl 529 00:29:54,830 --> 00:29:57,710 comes out with this voice. 530 00:29:57,710 --> 00:30:00,420 It was Whitney freakin' Houston! 531 00:30:01,130 --> 00:30:03,420 It was like her first modeling job. 532 00:30:03,420 --> 00:30:05,380 It was amazing. 533 00:30:05,380 --> 00:30:07,010 They were all beautiful. 534 00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:08,380 They were all models. 535 00:30:08,380 --> 00:30:10,180 And I was just a schlub 536 00:30:10,180 --> 00:30:12,300 with a sunburn playing the piano. 537 00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:14,220 And then Billy, you know, 538 00:30:14,220 --> 00:30:16,310 finally got a chance to sing a couple songs. 539 00:30:16,310 --> 00:30:20,270 He was just so fun and funny 540 00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:24,150 and pink and shiny. 541 00:30:24,150 --> 00:30:26,070 And... 542 00:30:26,070 --> 00:30:28,150 there was something very endearing about him. 543 00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:30,240 We just had a great time 544 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,740 laughing, talking, all of that. 545 00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:35,540 And so we decided that we would stay in touch. 546 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,920 We both lived in New York City, 547 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:44,630 and we started to hang out and liked each other. 548 00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:45,960 I said to my mom, 549 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,510 I'm seeing this guy who's so sweet, 550 00:30:48,510 --> 00:30:51,470 but he's, like, you know, not really my type. 551 00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:54,720 He's kind of got, like, the Long Island bubble hair. 552 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,140 But he's really interesting and fun. 553 00:30:57,140 --> 00:30:59,890 And she said, "Honey, you can change the hair. 554 00:30:59,890 --> 00:31:01,350 "You can change his shoes. 555 00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:05,440 But if he's got a good heart, you should follow your heart." 556 00:31:05,820 --> 00:31:08,360 So we went out, like, on a real date 557 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,860 to a Beach Boys concert. 558 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:13,240 And, of course, Billy ended up on stage. 559 00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:14,870 There was something really sweet 560 00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:16,870 and old fashion-y about him. 561 00:31:16,870 --> 00:31:21,080 So that's how our friendship turned into our romance. 562 00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:26,250 Whoa 563 00:31:26,250 --> 00:31:28,760 For the longest time 564 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,970 You know, here I am dating 565 00:31:29,970 --> 00:31:32,720 this beautiful supermodel, and me? 566 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,220 I'm from Hicksville. 567 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:35,600 What am I doing with her? What's she doing with me? 568 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,100 But it was a very productive time for me. 569 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:39,680 I wrote a lot of songs for her. 570 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,480 She was a muse. 571 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,060 It was like being a teenager all over again, 572 00:31:44,060 --> 00:31:46,360 experiencing those same emotions 573 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,530 that I had when I was first discovering 574 00:31:48,530 --> 00:31:50,240 romance and love. 575 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,160 We're having the best time! 576 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,290 Whoa 577 00:31:58,290 --> 00:32:01,040 For the longest time 578 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,750 Whoa 579 00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:05,210 For the longest... 580 00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:07,380 I'm that voice 581 00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:10,920 You're hearing in the hall 582 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,760 And the greatest miracle of all... 583 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:16,890 It was fun to be having 584 00:32:16,890 --> 00:32:18,720 this whirlwind romance 585 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,520 and having certain aspects of that turn into music. 586 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:35,950 Some people stay far away from the door 587 00:32:35,950 --> 00:32:40,330 If there's a chance of it opening up 588 00:32:41,750 --> 00:32:43,080 I wanted to do something simple 589 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,330 and dumb and happy. 590 00:32:44,330 --> 00:32:45,790 And I did "An Innocent Man," 591 00:32:46,250 --> 00:32:47,540 which is really an homage 592 00:32:47,540 --> 00:32:49,670 to all the music of my teenage years. 593 00:32:50,550 --> 00:32:54,260 Some people live with the fear of a touch 594 00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:58,680 And the anger of having been a fool... 595 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,640 Like the song "Innocent Man" 596 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,810 is done in the style of The Drifters. 597 00:33:02,810 --> 00:33:07,980 ...cry, because I am an innocent man 598 00:33:07,980 --> 00:33:09,860 ...with an uptown girl 599 00:33:09,860 --> 00:33:12,690 With "Uptown Girl," I wanted to recapture 600 00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:14,990 The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli. 601 00:33:14,990 --> 00:33:19,160 And when she's walkin' she's lookin' 602 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,240 So fine 603 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,410 We were all bar band guys, 604 00:33:23,410 --> 00:33:24,710 and it was kind of like 605 00:33:24,710 --> 00:33:26,830 the '50s and the '60s again, 606 00:33:26,830 --> 00:33:29,290 playing the music we grew up learning how to play. 607 00:33:29,290 --> 00:33:32,260 Under the boardwalk 608 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:37,390 Down by the sea, yeah 609 00:33:38,010 --> 00:33:39,510 Under the boardwalk 610 00:33:39,930 --> 00:33:41,260 Boardwalk 611 00:33:45,310 --> 00:33:47,980 We were having a blast making those recordings. 612 00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:50,020 And all those songs for "An Innocent Man," 613 00:33:50,020 --> 00:33:51,610 they came fast. 614 00:33:51,610 --> 00:33:52,780 I mean, just... 615 00:33:53,110 --> 00:33:55,150 This is how I'm feeling. This is what I'm writing. 616 00:33:55,150 --> 00:33:56,280 This is what it is. 617 00:33:56,990 --> 00:33:58,740 I want the easy 618 00:33:59,870 --> 00:34:02,540 Easy, easy money 619 00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:04,370 Billy Joel is in the middle 620 00:34:04,370 --> 00:34:06,540 of a national tour that was sold out 621 00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:08,000 before he ever hit the road. 622 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,290 Tell her about it 623 00:34:10,290 --> 00:34:11,960 On the tour, there's a whole new audience. 624 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,670 A lot younger kids who didn't know anything about "Piano Man," 625 00:34:14,670 --> 00:34:16,550 who don't even know "The Stranger," 626 00:34:16,550 --> 00:34:19,300 who may only know from the videos of "Pressure" 627 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:21,090 and "Allentown" and the new videos 628 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:22,600 we did on "An Innocent Man." 629 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,060 They've just discovered me through that, which is great. 630 00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:26,430 Billy's incredible, man. 631 00:34:26,430 --> 00:34:27,850 - How old are you? - Sixteen. 632 00:34:28,310 --> 00:34:29,690 This was the early '80s 633 00:34:29,690 --> 00:34:31,650 when MTV came to be. 634 00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:33,360 MTV Music Television! 635 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,070 Video music 24 hours a day! 636 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,860 Billy didn't really enjoy 637 00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:39,200 having to do videos. 638 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,120 He wanted his music to just paint the air 639 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,080 and for people to use their own imagination, 640 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,370 which is limitless. 641 00:34:49,710 --> 00:34:51,170 Plus he didn't think he was 642 00:34:51,170 --> 00:34:54,420 a matinee idol type for these videos. 643 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:56,340 We want to look good on camera, don't we? 644 00:34:57,130 --> 00:34:59,130 That's right, and Paula makes sure we do. 645 00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:00,800 But he realized they were important. 646 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,140 So these videos ended up 647 00:35:03,140 --> 00:35:05,220 being a big part of his career. 648 00:35:06,140 --> 00:35:10,060 This is not a video. This is a mini major motion picture. 649 00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:11,850 It's a three minute movie. 650 00:35:11,850 --> 00:35:14,190 At that time, I had just started doing music videos. 651 00:35:14,190 --> 00:35:16,400 I had my own little production company. 652 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,490 So I call Billy and I tell him what I'm doing. 653 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:20,490 - Quiet! - Rolling! 654 00:35:20,990 --> 00:35:23,620 The first one they wanted to do was "Tell Her About It." 655 00:35:23,620 --> 00:35:26,030 And Dennis Arfa, Billy's agent, 656 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,000 said, "I could get you Rodney Dangerfield." 657 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,160 Hi, this is Rodney Dangerfield. 658 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,460 I'll be on MTV, the world premiere 659 00:35:32,460 --> 00:35:33,580 of the Billy Joel video. 660 00:35:33,580 --> 00:35:35,590 Listen, boy, I don't want 661 00:35:35,590 --> 00:35:37,840 To see you let a good thing slip away 662 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,050 Slip away 663 00:35:39,050 --> 00:35:40,130 So we made "Tell Her About It." 664 00:35:40,470 --> 00:35:41,720 It came out great. 665 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:42,840 They ended up doing 666 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,050 some of the real standouts 667 00:35:45,050 --> 00:35:46,560 of that period. 668 00:35:47,220 --> 00:35:49,520 I had to wait forever 669 00:35:49,770 --> 00:35:52,600 But better late than never 670 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,770 Hi, I'm Billy Joel, and you're watching me 671 00:35:54,770 --> 00:35:56,360 on MTV, Music Television. 672 00:35:58,110 --> 00:36:00,110 The next video was "Uptown Girl." 673 00:36:00,110 --> 00:36:01,820 Billy said so we'll get Christie. 674 00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:04,990 I go, yeah, but she's in the newspaper with you every day. 675 00:36:04,990 --> 00:36:07,200 It only makes sense to be her, you know? 676 00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:09,040 So then I went to Christie. 677 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,960 Christie goes, "You see this? This is money." 678 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,000 So I said, look, you're only in it for a little bit. 679 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 We'll get the hair and makeup you want, whatever you want. 680 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,420 Just tell Billy you want to do it. 681 00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:21,090 So she told Billy she wanted to do it. 682 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:23,760 With an uptown girl 683 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,260 You know I've seen her in her uptown world 684 00:36:27,260 --> 00:36:31,310 She's getting tired of her high class toys 685 00:36:31,310 --> 00:36:34,980 And all the presents from her uptown boys 686 00:36:34,980 --> 00:36:36,690 She's got a choice 687 00:36:36,690 --> 00:36:39,270 I felt comfortable in the gas station outfit 688 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,900 because I used to work at a gas station. 689 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,490 ...white-bred world 690 00:36:42,490 --> 00:36:46,280 As long as anyone with hot blood can 691 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,910 And now she's looking for a downtown man 692 00:36:49,910 --> 00:36:51,330 That's what I am 693 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,750 And when she's walkin' 694 00:36:54,750 --> 00:36:58,840 She's lookin' so fine 695 00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:02,210 And when she's talkin' 696 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:06,470 She'll say that she's mine 697 00:37:06,930 --> 00:37:08,220 Billy said, "Well, I don't want to dance." 698 00:37:08,220 --> 00:37:09,470 I said, well, you're not dancing. 699 00:37:09,470 --> 00:37:11,010 You're just going from A to B, 700 00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,270 and you're doing it with some style, you know? 701 00:37:14,390 --> 00:37:17,650 Oh oh oh oh oh oh 702 00:37:17,650 --> 00:37:21,320 It was upspirited, and it showed the celebrity power. 703 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,690 Uptown girl 704 00:37:23,690 --> 00:37:26,700 She's my uptown girl 705 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:29,620 You know, they were the most powerful 706 00:37:29,620 --> 00:37:31,910 celebrity couple at that time. 707 00:37:31,910 --> 00:37:35,120 I mean, the ultimate rock-pop star 708 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,330 and the world's greatest model 709 00:37:37,330 --> 00:37:39,500 now in this celebrity video, 710 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,420 which is still legendary to this day. 711 00:37:42,420 --> 00:37:46,050 ...I'm in love with an uptown girl 712 00:37:46,050 --> 00:37:47,220 My uptown girl 713 00:37:47,220 --> 00:37:48,300 "Uptown Girl" 714 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,550 was a monster worldwide record. 715 00:37:50,550 --> 00:37:53,310 - Are you the man singing "Uptown Girl?" - That's me! 716 00:37:53,310 --> 00:37:58,690 Oh 717 00:37:59,150 --> 00:38:02,570 The momentum, the album had, like, four hit singles on it. 718 00:38:03,150 --> 00:38:05,780 But again, it was battling the critics. 719 00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:13,540 Particularly in the early '80s, 720 00:38:13,540 --> 00:38:16,200 people if they felt something wasn't, quote, rock and roll, 721 00:38:16,210 --> 00:38:18,830 you know, it came in for a certain sort of criticism. 722 00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:20,830 All the rock critics 723 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:25,130 were totally interested in blues-based rock. 724 00:38:25,130 --> 00:38:27,800 Well, Billy Joel did not fit into that mold. 725 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:32,220 And, as such, awakened their indifference or scorn. 726 00:38:32,220 --> 00:38:33,850 We had that in common with Bill. 727 00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:36,930 We got a lot of bad reviews. And I took it personally. 728 00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:39,060 You know, it hurt. I thought, who are these guys? 729 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:40,600 You know? And they don't know me. 730 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,320 I know that he hated the rock critics. 731 00:38:43,650 --> 00:38:45,610 I know it bugged the fuck out of him. 732 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,030 Piss on a bunch of critics. 733 00:38:48,450 --> 00:38:51,320 Every critic that ever criticized Billy, 734 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:52,830 where are they? 735 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,540 Where are all these people that knew so much 736 00:38:58,540 --> 00:39:00,920 about what we should be doing? 737 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:05,090 Billy put so much of himself in these songs. 738 00:39:05,090 --> 00:39:07,760 I mean, so many of them are autobiographical 739 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,970 that he is kind of spilling his guts and his life 740 00:39:10,970 --> 00:39:13,220 and his soul, putting it out there, 741 00:39:13,220 --> 00:39:15,220 and then have somebody slap them down. 742 00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:17,390 You know, it's very painful. 743 00:39:17,770 --> 00:39:19,430 Though he's sold over 40 million albums, 744 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,690 won five Grammys, and seen over a dozen singles go gold, 745 00:39:22,690 --> 00:39:25,480 critical acclaim has, for the most part, eluded Joel. 746 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,230 Critics charge that his varied styles 747 00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:29,900 deprive him of an authentic musical identity, 748 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,660 and others label him an unoriginal imitator. 749 00:39:32,660 --> 00:39:34,700 A musical chameleon of sorts. 750 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:36,370 The charges have understandably left 751 00:39:36,370 --> 00:39:38,950 Billy Joel perhaps a bit defensive overall. 752 00:39:38,950 --> 00:39:40,040 I don't think that's bad. 753 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,290 To me, it means renaissance. 754 00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:42,620 I do change all the time. 755 00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:44,880 I'm interested in all kinds of music. 756 00:39:45,460 --> 00:39:47,920 If you aren't inclined to like Billy Joel, 757 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,760 his versatility actually becomes a liability. 758 00:39:51,510 --> 00:39:53,300 A lot of critics looked at Billy Joel 759 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:54,840 as almost like a carpetbagger. 760 00:39:54,850 --> 00:39:57,510 This is a guy who doesn't have his own identity. 761 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,100 That he would do anything to get on the radio. 762 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,020 He would, you know, just chase any trend. 763 00:40:02,020 --> 00:40:04,770 And yeah, you know, he writes nice songs, 764 00:40:04,770 --> 00:40:07,820 but he's unoriginal and derivative. 765 00:40:08,150 --> 00:40:12,030 The critics didn't appreciate Billy Joel's musicality. 766 00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:15,410 For that crowd, musicality is a bad word. 767 00:40:15,410 --> 00:40:19,200 But even with all of the eclecticism of his influences, 768 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,250 there is an authenticity about him. 769 00:40:21,250 --> 00:40:23,460 And people respond to that. 770 00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:24,830 They think they know him, 771 00:40:25,330 --> 00:40:28,460 and they respond to what he says and feels. 772 00:40:29,550 --> 00:40:31,630 If you look at Billy Joel's songs, 773 00:40:31,630 --> 00:40:33,380 he doesn't beat around the bush. 774 00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:35,800 He doesn't write these obscure lyrics. 775 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,430 He's very straightforward and he's very openhearted, 776 00:40:39,430 --> 00:40:41,770 and you know exactly where he's coming from 777 00:40:41,770 --> 00:40:43,690 and what he's saying. 778 00:40:43,690 --> 00:40:46,600 I don't dwell in a lot of metaphor and simile. 779 00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:50,610 I write like I talk, and I write how I think. 780 00:40:51,030 --> 00:40:54,820 I think that's another reason that critics sort of look down on him. 781 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,410 But this is exactly what some of the greatest songwriters 782 00:40:58,410 --> 00:41:00,330 of the popular era, 783 00:41:00,330 --> 00:41:02,620 you know, of the American Songbook did. 784 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,460 He's one of the few contemporary songwriters 785 00:41:06,460 --> 00:41:09,590 who can write a standard by those rules, 786 00:41:09,590 --> 00:41:12,050 you know, where there's verse, chorus, verse, chorus, 787 00:41:12,050 --> 00:41:14,760 middle eight, key change, coda. 788 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,590 That art is dying out. 789 00:41:16,590 --> 00:41:18,760 He's a structural songwriter, 790 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,720 and that's really what I appreciate. 791 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,440 I think it also is what makes songs last. 792 00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:27,650 Tell her about it 793 00:41:27,650 --> 00:41:30,270 Tell her everything you feel 794 00:41:30,270 --> 00:41:31,520 A lot of critics didn't like 795 00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:33,820 the "Innocent Man" album. Tough shit. 796 00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:36,780 It's like, I want to do what I'm interested in. 797 00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:38,700 I want to do what I want to hear. 798 00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:47,790 The greatest rock and roll show ever! 799 00:41:47,790 --> 00:41:49,790 Billy! Billy! Billy! 800 00:41:54,090 --> 00:41:56,420 I never saw him on the cover of magazines 801 00:41:56,430 --> 00:41:58,550 with his arm around anybody until then. 802 00:41:58,550 --> 00:42:00,050 Then he's like, pff, 803 00:42:00,050 --> 00:42:01,850 the paparazzi couldn't get enough of them. 804 00:42:01,850 --> 00:42:03,100 It exploded. 805 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:04,350 There you have it, 806 00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:06,100 the paparazzi of London. 807 00:42:06,850 --> 00:42:09,150 During the Christie years, there was a super intensity. 808 00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:11,440 He became a celebrity. 809 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,770 But I don't think I ever saw him 810 00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:14,860 being comfortable with any of it. 811 00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:16,690 Christie, can you look this way? 812 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,110 She does. Look, look. 813 00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:21,820 Our first ever argument was because 814 00:42:21,830 --> 00:42:24,330 we got surrounded by paparazzis 815 00:42:24,330 --> 00:42:26,660 and Billy was really rude to them. 816 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,750 And I said, it's so much easier 817 00:42:28,750 --> 00:42:30,290 just to give them a smile. 818 00:42:30,290 --> 00:42:31,880 Now they're going to probably get a picture of you going 819 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,340 grr, arr, ahh, you know, and they'll run those. 820 00:42:35,340 --> 00:42:37,800 If you just see the camera, smile, 821 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,680 they'll get their shot and leave us alone. 822 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,350 And so we used to joke. 823 00:42:42,350 --> 00:42:44,560 Every time we'd see a camera, 824 00:42:44,810 --> 00:42:46,520 I'd strike a pose, and he'd go... 825 00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:51,020 We started doing this shtick everywhere. 826 00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:55,400 But she's always a woman to me 827 00:42:57,780 --> 00:43:04,080 Oh, and she never gives out 828 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,620 You know, I remember they were going out, 829 00:43:05,620 --> 00:43:07,620 they were dating. And I remember saying, like, 830 00:43:07,620 --> 00:43:09,250 you going to get married? 831 00:43:09,250 --> 00:43:11,380 And he goes, "You think I should?" 832 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,670 I said, I think you should. Yeah, I think you should. 833 00:43:18,420 --> 00:43:20,170 Pop-rock singer Billy Joel 834 00:43:20,180 --> 00:43:21,880 is tying the knot tonight in New York. 835 00:43:21,890 --> 00:43:24,310 His bride is fashion model Christie Brinkley. 836 00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:27,640 Even though I'm in love... 837 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,930 We wanted to get married in the harbor 838 00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:33,730 with the New York skyline, the Statue of Liberty. 839 00:43:33,730 --> 00:43:35,610 The wedding was great. We all went. 840 00:43:35,610 --> 00:43:38,530 Me, Steve, and Brian were in the bridal party. 841 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:42,030 He borrowed all my 45s and gave them to the DJ, 842 00:43:42,030 --> 00:43:43,990 and we played all that kind of music. 843 00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:46,240 We had a lot of people. 844 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:50,580 Record industry people, some model industry people, 845 00:43:50,580 --> 00:43:54,380 the whole band was there, friends, family. 846 00:43:54,380 --> 00:43:56,630 It was really fun and glamorous. 847 00:43:57,250 --> 00:43:58,500 It was a big deal. 848 00:43:58,510 --> 00:44:01,300 It was like, this is fame. 849 00:44:04,890 --> 00:44:10,020 Didn't I say I wasn't ready for romance? 850 00:44:10,020 --> 00:44:11,480 Shoop, shoop-ahh 851 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,940 Today is December 15th, 1985, 852 00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:18,820 and this is our new town of East Hampton. 853 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,070 Isn't it beautiful? 854 00:44:21,780 --> 00:44:23,610 A slow dance 855 00:44:23,610 --> 00:44:24,990 Hello! 856 00:44:24,990 --> 00:44:28,080 This comes up our driveway now. 857 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,370 ...there and then 858 00:44:30,370 --> 00:44:33,750 Those first couple years, it was just so much fun. 859 00:44:33,750 --> 00:44:35,000 It was so great. 860 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,960 And here it comes! Oh, yay! 861 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,340 Oh, yeah. 862 00:44:40,340 --> 00:44:44,010 ...who's seen it all before? 863 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:50,890 Now that you're here it's not the same situation 864 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,940 We made it back home! 865 00:44:53,940 --> 00:44:56,520 The sailors! Yay! 866 00:44:57,110 --> 00:45:00,360 Tomorrow 867 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,990 Is a long time away 868 00:45:05,490 --> 00:45:08,280 This night 869 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:15,370 Can last forever 870 00:45:21,670 --> 00:45:23,800 Someone's looking a bit larger these days. 871 00:45:24,220 --> 00:45:27,510 Only four weeks to go now. 872 00:45:27,510 --> 00:45:29,510 Three and days. 873 00:45:29,510 --> 00:45:30,930 Three and a couple of days. 874 00:45:31,890 --> 00:45:33,890 Well, this is the 16th of December, 875 00:45:33,890 --> 00:45:39,360 so the next time we film, maybe we'll tell the tale. 876 00:45:43,190 --> 00:45:44,780 Cover girl Christie Brinkley 877 00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:47,200 and singer Billy Joel are now proud parents. 878 00:45:49,030 --> 00:45:52,620 Brinkley gave birth to a six and a half pound baby girl 879 00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:55,000 last night at a Manhattan hospital. 880 00:45:58,170 --> 00:45:59,710 I don't think you really can grow up 881 00:45:59,710 --> 00:46:02,000 until you've had the experience of being a parent 882 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,300 and all of a sudden, 883 00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:05,590 the emphasis of everything isn't you. 884 00:46:05,590 --> 00:46:07,720 It gives you a whole different perspective. 885 00:46:08,260 --> 00:46:09,760 Unconditional love. 886 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,640 I never knew a feeling like that before, 887 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,220 till I held this little child in my arms. 888 00:46:14,220 --> 00:46:16,020 This is more important than me. 889 00:46:16,020 --> 00:46:19,150 This is everything. This is the future. 890 00:46:19,150 --> 00:46:20,810 And I'm responsible for it. 891 00:46:21,570 --> 00:46:23,900 I better make sure I do the right thing. 892 00:46:23,900 --> 00:46:25,150 Here we go. 893 00:46:25,150 --> 00:46:29,070 This is the time to remember 894 00:46:29,070 --> 00:46:32,490 'Cause it will not last forever 895 00:46:32,490 --> 00:46:33,950 I didn't have a dad. 896 00:46:33,950 --> 00:46:36,040 I wanted to be the dad that I didn't have. 897 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:38,290 It was very important to me. 898 00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:41,170 - Hi! - Hi! 899 00:46:41,170 --> 00:46:43,420 I grew up in East Hampton. 900 00:46:43,420 --> 00:46:46,970 And I thought, wow, my parents are really popular. 901 00:46:47,590 --> 00:46:51,430 I didn't know that my parents were the celebrities. 902 00:46:51,430 --> 00:46:53,050 I thought I was the star 903 00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,720 because that's how they treated me as a child. 904 00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:58,310 They were always filming me and building me up 905 00:46:58,310 --> 00:47:02,150 and always making me the star of their family musicals. 906 00:47:03,110 --> 00:47:06,820 Daddy, daddy, daddy, da 907 00:47:06,820 --> 00:47:10,110 - That's me. - Daddy, daddy... 908 00:47:10,110 --> 00:47:12,530 Billy would sit down at the piano 909 00:47:12,530 --> 00:47:13,990 and start playing, 910 00:47:13,990 --> 00:47:17,160 and she would just tune in to the piano 911 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,750 and then start singing. 912 00:47:18,750 --> 00:47:20,160 The Yanks are coming 913 00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:23,460 The drums rum-tumming everywhere 914 00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:24,790 Every day we would sing. 915 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,460 And when my grandmother, I call her Nanny Roz, 916 00:47:27,460 --> 00:47:29,880 was with us, she was always singing. 917 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,340 She loved musical theater with such a passion. 918 00:47:33,350 --> 00:47:36,430 There's a song from the musical "Showboat:" 919 00:47:36,430 --> 00:47:38,770 Because he's just my Bill 920 00:47:38,770 --> 00:47:41,770 She named my father after that song. 921 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,150 Roz was one of a kind. 922 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,030 When she and Billy would get together, 923 00:47:48,030 --> 00:47:52,200 they always loved singing little songs from Broadway, 924 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,120 and they would go in and out of accents. 925 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,740 You never come to my house anymore for coffee. 926 00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:01,960 They loved putting on a show together. 927 00:48:02,330 --> 00:48:05,500 One more for my baby 928 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:09,510 And one more for the road 929 00:48:09,510 --> 00:48:12,260 My grandmother was extremely extroverted, 930 00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:13,930 almost to a fault. 931 00:48:13,930 --> 00:48:16,760 Just such an endless well of emotion 932 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,720 always bubbling up inside of her. 933 00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:21,230 She would just start singing something, 934 00:48:21,230 --> 00:48:23,390 and then she would become overcome 935 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,060 with the emotion, she'd just start crying. 936 00:48:27,230 --> 00:48:28,530 She was unpredictable. 937 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,280 Very erratic moods, oh, yes. 938 00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:32,900 You know, that was hard for him, 939 00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:35,160 to have his mom act erratically like that. 940 00:48:35,870 --> 00:48:38,740 But I think that he felt an enormous amount of sympathy 941 00:48:38,740 --> 00:48:41,040 for her plight as a single mom. 942 00:48:42,750 --> 00:48:45,040 She was always there. Always. 943 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,050 She was the original motivator. 944 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,300 She was my champion. 945 00:48:53,970 --> 00:48:57,010 Through thick and thin, he loved her. 946 00:48:57,010 --> 00:49:00,390 And she was so proud that he was so successful 947 00:49:00,390 --> 00:49:02,640 and traveling all over the world. 948 00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:06,190 There's Big Ben, Alexa. See that big clock up there? 949 00:49:06,190 --> 00:49:09,650 Il Torcello. De prima capital en de Venezia. 950 00:49:09,650 --> 00:49:11,900 And I loved being on the road. 951 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:15,410 And I just loved being part of that big road family. 952 00:49:15,910 --> 00:49:18,700 Volaré 953 00:49:19,620 --> 00:49:22,370 Oh-oh 954 00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:26,460 Cantaré 955 00:49:26,460 --> 00:49:29,380 Oh-oh-oh-oh 956 00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:33,590 So I did try to go as often as I could. 957 00:49:33,590 --> 00:49:36,840 And I felt it was really important for Billy 958 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,720 to have that time with Alexa. 959 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,720 I am 960 00:49:43,730 --> 00:49:47,770 An innocent man 961 00:49:47,770 --> 00:49:51,610 Oh, yes, I am 962 00:49:52,150 --> 00:49:53,320 Do you feel like your fans are really going 963 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:54,780 to get everything that they're after? 964 00:49:54,780 --> 00:49:56,240 No, they're not going to get everything that... 965 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:57,950 She's got dressing room stuff. 966 00:49:57,950 --> 00:49:59,200 - You know, makeup things-- - Oh, yeah? 967 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,740 And yeah. Yeah, she's got some great stuff. 968 00:50:00,740 --> 00:50:03,200 People really connected to them as a couple. 969 00:50:03,750 --> 00:50:05,790 I think it was fun for people to see 970 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,040 that opposites can attract. 971 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,380 - Hi, I'm John Malkovich. - I'm Billy Joel. 972 00:50:10,380 --> 00:50:12,130 I have to tell you, I admire the fact 973 00:50:12,130 --> 00:50:13,710 that you're married to Cindy Crawford. 974 00:50:14,340 --> 00:50:15,920 No, I'm married to Christie Brinkley. 975 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,840 You wish. 976 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,350 I had put out "Nylon Curtain," 977 00:50:21,350 --> 00:50:23,470 and then I had put out "An Innocent Man." 978 00:50:23,890 --> 00:50:25,680 I had a brand new baby daughter. 979 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,350 I didn't want to be slaving away on my own 980 00:50:28,350 --> 00:50:30,350 in a room by myself, 981 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,440 trying to come up with song after song. 982 00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:35,490 I wanted to be enjoying my family. 983 00:50:35,940 --> 00:50:38,660 So I kind of resisted it for a couple of years. 984 00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:43,200 But I knew that eventually, I had to get back to work. 985 00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:53,000 Do the harmony. 986 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,550 It was kind of a struggle to write. 987 00:51:03,430 --> 00:51:07,600 I didn't have the ambition that I did on the previous albums. 988 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,230 I can hear it on the album. 989 00:51:09,230 --> 00:51:11,520 I gotta come up with another section for it though. 990 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:12,940 Bridge or a... 991 00:51:12,940 --> 00:51:14,690 Writing a lot of times, I see 992 00:51:14,690 --> 00:51:16,820 the piano as this big black beast 993 00:51:16,820 --> 00:51:20,030 with 88 teeth trying to bite my hands off. 994 00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:22,530 And it won't come. And it won't come. 995 00:51:22,530 --> 00:51:24,120 And then when I start to get it, 996 00:51:24,580 --> 00:51:25,990 I better, you know, 997 00:51:26,370 --> 00:51:28,500 make sure that I stay there until I get it. 998 00:51:29,250 --> 00:51:31,830 Because the dry feeling is the worst. 999 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,460 I've always written alone. 1000 00:51:37,460 --> 00:51:38,840 It's very lonely. 1001 00:51:39,590 --> 00:51:44,220 There's solitude that I have to have when I'm writing. 1002 00:51:44,890 --> 00:51:46,390 Otherwise, I get distracted. 1003 00:51:46,390 --> 00:51:49,770 I have to completely be in my own cave, 1004 00:51:49,770 --> 00:51:51,190 like a caveman. 1005 00:51:51,190 --> 00:51:54,020 I get grouchy, I get cranky, I get moody, 1006 00:51:54,020 --> 00:51:57,070 I go through all kinds of emotional feelings. 1007 00:51:57,070 --> 00:52:00,320 I feel completely isolated from the rest of the world. 1008 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:01,740 But it has to be like that 1009 00:52:01,740 --> 00:52:03,450 if I'm going to write on my own. 1010 00:52:03,450 --> 00:52:07,580 I just have to be able to be completely in a vacuum. 1011 00:52:07,990 --> 00:52:09,700 So it is a lonely job. 1012 00:52:10,250 --> 00:52:12,210 To me, the main language is the music. 1013 00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:14,290 There's always a message in the music. 1014 00:52:14,290 --> 00:52:17,750 Even before the words. There's something in there. 1015 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,260 But the work is digging it out, 1016 00:52:21,260 --> 00:52:22,760 figuring out what that is. 1017 00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:27,220 Wow. Drums sound great in this room. 1018 00:52:27,890 --> 00:52:29,430 Yeah. You don't hear the drums? 1019 00:52:53,580 --> 00:52:55,460 - Did it sound good? - It was incredible. 1020 00:52:55,460 --> 00:52:56,920 Hey, Lib, you can go home. 1021 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,750 Sing. Come on. Sing. 1022 00:52:59,750 --> 00:53:01,760 When I'm blue 1023 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,550 When I'm lonely... 1024 00:53:06,050 --> 00:53:07,800 I was told by Phil Ramone, 1025 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,560 who was a friend of Ray Charles, 1026 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,020 that Ray wanted to do a song with me. 1027 00:53:12,020 --> 00:53:13,770 "Do you have anything in mind 1028 00:53:13,770 --> 00:53:16,690 that you could write for Ray and you?" 1029 00:53:16,690 --> 00:53:18,900 I mean, I idolized Ray Charles all my life. 1030 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:21,980 He's probably my favorite singer of all time. 1031 00:53:21,990 --> 00:53:23,820 So I thought I'll write a song 1032 00:53:23,820 --> 00:53:25,650 about something we have in common. 1033 00:53:25,660 --> 00:53:28,450 What's been the most consistent thing 1034 00:53:28,450 --> 00:53:29,830 in our lives? 1035 00:53:30,290 --> 00:53:32,000 The piano. 1036 00:53:32,540 --> 00:53:35,120 So we flew out to Los Angeles to do this session, 1037 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,920 and in walked Ray Charles, 1038 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,420 and I almost went into a freeze-up. 1039 00:53:39,420 --> 00:53:42,460 Oh, my God, he's really there. That's really Ray Charles. 1040 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,840 I got you singin' "I've come far from the life..." 1041 00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,260 Well, I'm going to finish up the bridge. 1042 00:53:47,260 --> 00:53:48,510 You want me to keep on singin'? 1043 00:53:48,510 --> 00:53:49,640 Yeah. 1044 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:50,850 Phil Ramone suggested, 1045 00:53:50,850 --> 00:53:52,430 "Why don't you just both play the piano?" 1046 00:53:52,430 --> 00:53:54,480 And it broke the ice immediately. 1047 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,080 That's a bond between people. 1048 00:54:12,660 --> 00:54:14,580 It's a very emotional attachment 1049 00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:16,410 that we both have to this thing. 1050 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:20,500 And now I'm going to sing with Ray Charles! 1051 00:54:21,290 --> 00:54:23,050 I was so intimidated. 1052 00:54:24,710 --> 00:54:28,130 She comes through 1053 00:54:28,130 --> 00:54:32,760 She's the only one who can 1054 00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,310 My Baby Grand 1055 00:54:36,310 --> 00:54:38,850 Is all I need 1056 00:54:38,850 --> 00:54:42,940 I love the extended metaphor of the piano 1057 00:54:42,940 --> 00:54:45,280 as a lifelong love affair. 1058 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,360 I adore that song. 1059 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,660 And then getting Ray Charles to sing with him. 1060 00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:51,370 That's, that's genius. 1061 00:54:52,780 --> 00:54:54,580 All it takes 1062 00:54:55,950 --> 00:55:00,620 Is the power in my hands 1063 00:55:00,630 --> 00:55:04,170 And this Baby Grand 1064 00:55:04,170 --> 00:55:07,840 Is good to me 1065 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,640 - That's the one. - Oh, yeah, that's fine. 1066 00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,350 - That's soup. - Soup! 1067 00:55:14,350 --> 00:55:17,520 Soup time. Soup time. 1068 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,850 Soup du jour, oh, yeah it is. 1069 00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:21,350 That's what happens when you relax. 1070 00:55:21,350 --> 00:55:23,480 Yeah, that's right! No, that's it. 1071 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:28,110 A-one, a-two a-one, two, three, four 1072 00:55:28,820 --> 00:55:30,900 After "The Bridge," 1073 00:55:30,910 --> 00:55:32,660 we were touring all over the world. 1074 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,540 Some love is just a lie of the heart 1075 00:55:37,410 --> 00:55:39,580 The cold remains of what began 1076 00:55:39,580 --> 00:55:41,830 With a passionate start 1077 00:55:43,670 --> 00:55:45,090 We were all over the place. 1078 00:55:45,090 --> 00:55:46,500 We played a lot of France. 1079 00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:48,550 - We were in Holland. - Flew to London. 1080 00:55:48,550 --> 00:55:51,720 We played in Berlin in 1989. 1081 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:53,220 - The wall came down. - Right. 1082 00:55:53,220 --> 00:55:54,800 We were the first act to get there 1083 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,850 when the reunification of Germany. 1084 00:55:56,850 --> 00:55:58,310 I had this whole speech. 1085 00:55:58,980 --> 00:56:00,770 My sense of it is that 1086 00:56:00,770 --> 00:56:03,100 you would always want to go someplace unique, 1087 00:56:03,100 --> 00:56:05,650 where people couldn't experience this kind of stuff. 1088 00:56:05,650 --> 00:56:07,570 And you would say yes to those things 1089 00:56:07,570 --> 00:56:10,360 that other guys wouldn't do, like Russia. 1090 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,160 What's the maximum benefit you would like 1091 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,820 to achieve out of this entire two-week experience? 1092 00:56:15,830 --> 00:56:17,120 Make a lot of friends, 1093 00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,830 hopefully make some people happy with my music 1094 00:56:19,830 --> 00:56:22,250 and get something that can be continued. 1095 00:56:28,050 --> 00:56:31,760 Swing low 1096 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:36,930 Sweet chariot 1097 00:56:36,930 --> 00:56:39,350 This guy just invited us to his house. 1098 00:56:39,890 --> 00:56:41,810 - You have good music. - Thank you. 1099 00:56:41,810 --> 00:56:45,600 Pop music is a universal language among young people in any country. 1100 00:56:45,610 --> 00:56:47,310 You know, the politicians don't seem to be able 1101 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:48,730 to make any major breakthroughs. 1102 00:56:49,110 --> 00:56:50,980 I think sometimes maybe it's up to the artists 1103 00:56:50,990 --> 00:56:52,440 to open up a dialogue. 1104 00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:54,030 Bye-bye. Thank you. 1105 00:56:55,410 --> 00:56:57,740 We had a great audience who were all excited 1106 00:56:57,740 --> 00:56:58,950 to hear rock and roll. 1107 00:56:58,950 --> 00:57:00,120 They wanted to rock out. 1108 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,080 That was like the spirit 1109 00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:03,660 of those people in Russia. 1110 00:57:03,670 --> 00:57:05,710 They wanted to hang out with us. 1111 00:57:05,710 --> 00:57:07,880 The vodka bottle would come on the table, 1112 00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,050 they'd take the top, throw the top off. 1113 00:57:10,050 --> 00:57:13,170 I remember they didn't have screw-on tops on the vodka. 1114 00:57:13,170 --> 00:57:15,930 It was a thing you took off and you threw it away. 1115 00:57:15,930 --> 00:57:18,350 And I would say to them, don't you have a top 1116 00:57:18,350 --> 00:57:19,680 that you can put back? And they said, "Why?" 1117 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:20,890 "Why?" 1118 00:57:20,890 --> 00:57:22,390 - "What for?" - What for? 1119 00:57:22,390 --> 00:57:24,100 When I trashed the piano, 1120 00:57:24,100 --> 00:57:25,980 - the crowd loved it. - Oh, yeah. 1121 00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:27,150 They'd never seen that before. 1122 00:57:27,150 --> 00:57:28,520 Rich Americans, 1123 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,570 they smash their equipment. 1124 00:57:30,570 --> 00:57:31,820 Is he mad at us? 1125 00:57:31,820 --> 00:57:34,150 What are you going to trash tonight? 1126 00:57:34,740 --> 00:57:36,160 Whoa 1127 00:57:50,710 --> 00:57:52,300 Da da! 1128 00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,930 It's Daddy, Alexa, in a helicopter! 1129 00:58:03,890 --> 00:58:05,560 It's Daddy! 1130 00:58:13,230 --> 00:58:15,320 I'm two days back from Leningrad. 1131 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,820 How does it feel to be home? 1132 00:58:16,820 --> 00:58:20,530 I'm so glad I'm-a livin' in the USA 1133 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:22,700 Whoa, yeah 1134 00:58:22,700 --> 00:58:26,830 I'm so glad livin' in the USA 1135 00:58:26,830 --> 00:58:28,290 Hully gully 1136 00:58:28,290 --> 00:58:29,670 Great to be back. 1137 00:58:30,590 --> 00:58:32,380 We're on the road again, folks. 1138 00:58:32,710 --> 00:58:34,300 This time, we're going up to Maine. 1139 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:38,300 So far, we've gotten to here. Bantam Lake. 1140 00:58:39,260 --> 00:58:41,180 Christie, why don't you give 'em a look at Bantam Lake. 1141 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,470 We actually set about 1142 00:58:44,470 --> 00:58:47,560 driving the coastline from Maine, 1143 00:58:47,980 --> 00:58:51,190 zigzagging in and out of the shoreline. 1144 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,820 It was a magical trip discovering little towns. 1145 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,910 Billy and My kind of town 1146 00:59:00,910 --> 00:59:03,120 Menemsha is 1147 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:04,830 And it was funny 'cause every town 1148 00:59:04,830 --> 00:59:06,870 that we went in, the waiter 1149 00:59:06,870 --> 00:59:09,290 or the owner of the restaurant would go, 1150 00:59:09,290 --> 00:59:11,080 "Oh, yeah. You guys own 1151 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,130 that huge property up the street." 1152 00:59:14,590 --> 00:59:16,300 We're like, no, no, we don't. 1153 00:59:16,670 --> 00:59:18,380 And then they would say, "Oh, yeah, yeah. 1154 00:59:18,380 --> 00:59:21,010 You bought a horse from me, you know." 1155 00:59:21,010 --> 00:59:23,470 We'd go, no, no, we didn't. 1156 00:59:23,890 --> 00:59:25,390 This is interesting. I'm kind of glad 1157 00:59:25,390 --> 00:59:26,720 we're going to stay in the area 1158 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,020 instead of driving further down. 1159 00:59:29,020 --> 00:59:30,600 Because we're running out of daylight. 1160 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,020 We were bumping into people, 1161 00:59:32,020 --> 00:59:33,770 and then it was like, "Oh, yeah, you bought 1162 00:59:33,770 --> 00:59:35,650 this old hotel in, 1163 00:59:35,650 --> 00:59:37,190 you know, North Carolina," or something. 1164 00:59:37,190 --> 00:59:39,240 It's like, no, not us. 1165 00:59:41,070 --> 00:59:44,240 I started getting, like, a little feeling 1166 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:47,160 that his manager was buying things with his money. 1167 00:59:51,330 --> 00:59:53,790 I thought, wow, he's flying everywhere 1168 00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:56,090 on, like, a private jet. 1169 00:59:56,090 --> 00:59:59,340 He's buying racehorses galore. 1170 00:59:59,340 --> 01:00:02,430 And everybody thinks we own property near them. 1171 01:00:03,180 --> 01:00:06,890 Well, I know you got your troubles 1172 01:00:06,890 --> 01:00:09,100 Something's not right here. 1173 01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:13,480 But I've got problems of my own 1174 01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:14,690 I said to Billy, 1175 01:00:14,690 --> 01:00:16,730 Frank Weber is ripping you off. 1176 01:00:17,110 --> 01:00:19,490 And he did not want to hear that. 1177 01:00:20,030 --> 01:00:22,610 I had an apartment in Manhattan, 1178 01:00:22,610 --> 01:00:25,160 and I went to look at a house 1179 01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,620 that needed to be renovated. 1180 01:00:27,620 --> 01:00:29,870 And I heard that there was issues 1181 01:00:29,870 --> 01:00:32,040 with the expense of that. 1182 01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:33,580 And people in the music business 1183 01:00:33,580 --> 01:00:34,960 that I knew were telling me, 1184 01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,590 "You shouldn't have a problem 1185 01:00:36,590 --> 01:00:38,630 coming up with the money to do this. 1186 01:00:38,630 --> 01:00:40,760 You just had all these hit records. 1187 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:42,050 Where's all your money?" 1188 01:00:42,340 --> 01:00:43,840 And I didn't have an answer for that. 1189 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,550 I really hadn't stayed on top of that. 1190 01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:51,980 Into each life must fall some rain 1191 01:00:51,980 --> 01:00:53,390 Billy called me and he goes, 1192 01:00:53,390 --> 01:00:54,900 "I don't have enough money to pay for my house." 1193 01:00:54,900 --> 01:00:57,230 I go, oh, but Frank can pay for his house? 1194 01:00:57,230 --> 01:00:59,650 He goes, "Well, he doesn't have the expenses I have." 1195 01:00:59,650 --> 01:01:01,780 I said, Billy, man, you're so naive. 1196 01:01:01,780 --> 01:01:06,030 We all walk in darkness sometimes 1197 01:01:06,780 --> 01:01:08,870 Frank had become like a confidante, 1198 01:01:08,870 --> 01:01:11,000 a trusted advisor. 1199 01:01:12,500 --> 01:01:15,080 Billy told me that he doesn't have a lot of money. 1200 01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,420 I mean, at this point in his career 1201 01:01:16,420 --> 01:01:17,790 for Billy Joel to say, "I don't have money," 1202 01:01:17,790 --> 01:01:18,960 is ridiculous. 1203 01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:20,380 Something is wrong. 1204 01:01:20,380 --> 01:01:21,760 You've had top ten records. 1205 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,380 You have tours, which you should have 1206 01:01:23,380 --> 01:01:24,550 a lot of money. 1207 01:01:24,550 --> 01:01:25,970 Why don't you have a lot of money? 1208 01:01:25,970 --> 01:01:27,300 What is the problem? 1209 01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:28,720 And he said to me, 1210 01:01:29,220 --> 01:01:30,720 "Mind your own fucking business." 1211 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,140 When I first said it to him, he said, 1212 01:01:33,140 --> 01:01:35,690 "Hey, I've known him a hell of a lot longer 1213 01:01:35,690 --> 01:01:37,110 than I know you." 1214 01:01:37,770 --> 01:01:39,980 He felt like this was his family, 1215 01:01:39,980 --> 01:01:42,110 the family that he chose. 1216 01:01:44,700 --> 01:01:47,570 I said, look, I love you, I'm trying to protect you. 1217 01:01:48,530 --> 01:01:50,410 I see people ripping you off. 1218 01:01:51,700 --> 01:01:53,370 Billy trusted him. 1219 01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:56,370 He trusted him more than he trusted me, 1220 01:01:56,370 --> 01:01:59,710 which of course hurt me to hear that. 1221 01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,710 And I said, why don't you get an auditor? 1222 01:02:02,710 --> 01:02:04,920 Get an auditor. Not saying anything is wrong, 1223 01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:06,930 but you ought to have someone take a look. 1224 01:02:06,930 --> 01:02:09,140 So I had an audit authorized. 1225 01:02:09,140 --> 01:02:11,470 And after the audit, I found out 1226 01:02:12,180 --> 01:02:14,520 I didn't have anywhere near the money I should have had. 1227 01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:16,310 It hit me like a ton of bricks. 1228 01:02:16,310 --> 01:02:19,980 I should have been worth this, and I was worth this. 1229 01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,320 Yesterday, Joel filed a $90 million lawsuit 1230 01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,030 against Frank Weber, his manager since 1980. 1231 01:02:26,030 --> 01:02:28,160 An independent audit of Weber and his company, 1232 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:30,410 Frank Management, has found that, quote, 1233 01:02:30,410 --> 01:02:33,410 Weber used Billy as his personal bank, unquote. 1234 01:02:33,410 --> 01:02:34,790 Now, it's bad enough that the manager 1235 01:02:34,790 --> 01:02:36,750 used to be Billy's brother-in-law, 1236 01:02:36,750 --> 01:02:39,920 but he's also the godfather of Billy Joel's daughter. 1237 01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:43,670 I owed Uncle Sam five million dollars. 1238 01:02:43,670 --> 01:02:45,670 I didn't have the money I thought I had. 1239 01:02:46,050 --> 01:02:47,720 And it was devastating. 1240 01:02:48,510 --> 01:02:50,930 Billy can have a blind loyalty, 1241 01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:53,430 and he had a blind loyalty to Frank. 1242 01:02:53,430 --> 01:02:56,310 And finally, that loyalty was broken. 1243 01:02:57,770 --> 01:02:59,560 It was an emotional shock. 1244 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:02,650 If I can't trust this guy to look after my best interests. 1245 01:03:02,650 --> 01:03:05,230 How stupid was I? 1246 01:03:05,230 --> 01:03:07,200 How naive could I have been? 1247 01:03:07,610 --> 01:03:09,650 It was a very depressing thing. 1248 01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:11,110 When I started working for Billy, 1249 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:12,910 he didn't even own all of his copyrights. 1250 01:03:12,910 --> 01:03:15,660 Under my direction, we reacquired all the rights 1251 01:03:15,660 --> 01:03:18,120 to his to his songs. 1252 01:03:18,870 --> 01:03:22,750 Frank Weber says he always acted in Billy Joel's best interest 1253 01:03:22,750 --> 01:03:26,000 and was totally unprepared when he was hit with a lawsuit. 1254 01:03:26,010 --> 01:03:30,930 Billy used to say that he would take care of the music 1255 01:03:30,930 --> 01:03:32,890 and I would take care of the business. 1256 01:03:35,100 --> 01:03:36,770 Frank denies these charges 1257 01:03:36,770 --> 01:03:39,520 and counters that the investments in question failed 1258 01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,020 because of the recession and other factors. 1259 01:03:47,030 --> 01:03:50,570 That was a life-changing, tragic event for my father. 1260 01:03:53,490 --> 01:03:57,790 Well, if money makes a rich man 1261 01:03:57,790 --> 01:03:59,700 When he betrayed his trust 1262 01:03:59,710 --> 01:04:01,370 and betrayed his friendship... 1263 01:04:01,370 --> 01:04:04,630 Then I might never make the grade 1264 01:04:04,630 --> 01:04:06,500 ...I think that that was absolutely devastating. 1265 01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:08,840 He had a great deal of pain about it. 1266 01:04:09,220 --> 01:04:13,340 I'll be a small time operator 1267 01:04:13,340 --> 01:04:15,180 When I found out that my money 1268 01:04:15,180 --> 01:04:16,720 was pretty well spent, 1269 01:04:17,390 --> 01:04:18,640 I was furious. 1270 01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:22,690 I realized I gotta start all over again. 1271 01:04:22,690 --> 01:04:25,690 I gotta go right back to writing new songs, 1272 01:04:25,690 --> 01:04:28,690 recording the new songs, and go out on the road 1273 01:04:28,690 --> 01:04:30,700 and try to make that money back. 1274 01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:35,370 You know, I got a family, I got a kid, 1275 01:04:35,370 --> 01:04:37,490 I got a wife, I got relatives, 1276 01:04:37,490 --> 01:04:39,240 I gotta take care of everybody. 1277 01:04:39,250 --> 01:04:40,710 Because I was taking care of everybody. 1278 01:04:41,580 --> 01:04:42,870 - You tired? - I'm exhausted. 1279 01:04:42,870 --> 01:04:44,080 I haven't stopped. 1280 01:04:44,580 --> 01:04:47,170 ...spender 1281 01:04:47,170 --> 01:04:49,380 I was worried about, this is going to not be good 1282 01:04:49,380 --> 01:04:50,630 for my marriage. 1283 01:04:51,420 --> 01:04:53,010 This is not going to be good 1284 01:04:53,010 --> 01:04:54,930 for my relationship with my daughter. 1285 01:04:55,510 --> 01:04:57,430 I am bitter about it. And it gets me mad. 1286 01:04:57,430 --> 01:04:58,680 I want to be with them. 1287 01:04:58,680 --> 01:04:59,970 I don't want to be doing this 1288 01:04:59,970 --> 01:05:01,810 because of financial problems. 1289 01:05:03,980 --> 01:05:05,270 But I had no choice. 1290 01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:08,190 I had to go out and make a living. 1291 01:05:09,730 --> 01:05:13,990 I believe 'cause I've been there too 1292 01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,070 At this point in his career, 1293 01:05:16,070 --> 01:05:18,990 he was able to book multiple nights 1294 01:05:18,990 --> 01:05:22,450 at Madison Square Garden, multiple nights in Boston. 1295 01:05:22,460 --> 01:05:27,500 So the possibility of earning it back 1296 01:05:28,290 --> 01:05:31,250 was probably a better idea 1297 01:05:31,260 --> 01:05:34,050 than trying to just keep fighting 1298 01:05:34,050 --> 01:05:37,970 and draining your energy and dragging you down 1299 01:05:37,970 --> 01:05:39,390 and just... 1300 01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,680 So, the decision was made 1301 01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:46,350 to just roll up the sleeves and get to work replenishing. 1302 01:05:50,230 --> 01:05:52,900 Long Island's own writer, composer, 1303 01:05:52,900 --> 01:05:54,150 singer, concert performer. 1304 01:05:54,150 --> 01:05:56,200 Billy Joel comin' to Yankee Stadium. 1305 01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:59,240 The guy gets bigger, I think, every single album. 1306 01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,200 Probably because he stays a regular guy 1307 01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,240 despite all those incredible talents. 1308 01:06:03,250 --> 01:06:05,080 You like the way this feels down at the end? 1309 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,830 Doing a three song encore? 1310 01:06:06,830 --> 01:06:08,460 That's really good, man. 1311 01:06:11,460 --> 01:06:13,170 Rock and roll, Billy Joel! 1312 01:06:16,510 --> 01:06:18,970 Good times, bad times 1313 01:06:18,970 --> 01:06:20,600 You know I've had my share 1314 01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,520 I don't care what he sings, I just want to see Billy Joel. 1315 01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,350 He's such an entertainer, he gives the best concert, 1316 01:06:25,350 --> 01:06:26,730 - he's incredible. - We drove all the way 1317 01:06:26,730 --> 01:06:28,020 from Ohio just to see 1318 01:06:28,020 --> 01:06:30,230 Billy Joel play "Piano Man" once. 1319 01:06:51,420 --> 01:06:55,300 Well, I'm on the downeaster "Alexa" 1320 01:06:56,420 --> 01:07:00,470 And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound 1321 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:06,180 I have charted a course to the vineyard 1322 01:07:06,890 --> 01:07:09,640 But tonight, I am Nantucket bound... 1323 01:07:09,650 --> 01:07:11,400 It happens to a lot of musicians. 1324 01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:14,270 I got bills to pay 1325 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,990 And children who need clothes 1326 01:07:17,570 --> 01:07:19,400 We're not financially oriented. 1327 01:07:19,410 --> 01:07:21,990 It wasn't about the money. It was about being a musician. 1328 01:07:21,990 --> 01:07:24,200 Like all the locals here 1329 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,580 I've had to sell my home 1330 01:07:27,750 --> 01:07:28,910 Too proud to leave 1331 01:07:28,910 --> 01:07:31,500 I worked my fingers to the bone 1332 01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:35,960 So I could own my downeaster "Alexa" 1333 01:07:36,550 --> 01:07:38,470 I didn't like thinking as a businessman. 1334 01:07:38,470 --> 01:07:40,260 I wanted to be an artiste. 1335 01:07:40,260 --> 01:07:41,550 I just wanted to think about the music 1336 01:07:41,550 --> 01:07:43,300 and the creativity, bah bah bah. 1337 01:07:43,300 --> 01:07:44,560 And I'm above all that. 1338 01:07:44,890 --> 01:07:47,470 Well, bullshit. I wasn't above all of that. 1339 01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,900 ...and a good captain can't fall asleep 1340 01:07:52,650 --> 01:07:54,440 I needed to protect these songs. 1341 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:55,770 These were my children. 1342 01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:56,940 They were orphans 1343 01:07:56,940 --> 01:07:59,780 until I asserted my parenthood of them. 1344 01:07:59,780 --> 01:08:02,160 ...from the bell in Gardiner's Bay 1345 01:08:02,660 --> 01:08:06,700 So I took over my management, and I never looked back. 1346 01:08:08,620 --> 01:08:12,370 But I got people back on land who count on me 1347 01:08:12,370 --> 01:08:18,420 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 1348 01:08:22,090 --> 01:08:24,800 1989 has been a year of great change for Billy Joel. 1349 01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,350 He turned 40, fired his manager, added some new members to his band, 1350 01:08:28,350 --> 01:08:30,600 and recorded his first album in three years. 1351 01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:31,850 It's called "Storm Front." 1352 01:08:41,030 --> 01:08:42,740 The flag is a hurricane flag. 1353 01:08:42,740 --> 01:08:45,120 It's a red flag with a black square in the middle. 1354 01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,030 When you see that flag, you don't go anywhere. 1355 01:08:47,030 --> 01:08:48,660 - Is it a warning? - Yeah. 1356 01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:50,410 It means something's going to happen, man. 1357 01:08:50,410 --> 01:08:51,870 Means a storm front's coming. 1358 01:08:51,870 --> 01:08:55,290 And I am restless 1359 01:08:56,630 --> 01:08:59,420 For the open water 1360 01:09:01,050 --> 01:09:04,470 Red flags are flying 1361 01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,970 From the Coast Guard mast 1362 01:09:10,430 --> 01:09:11,850 They told me... 1363 01:09:11,850 --> 01:09:13,770 Name your favorite Billy Joel album. 1364 01:09:13,770 --> 01:09:15,270 That's tough. 1365 01:09:15,270 --> 01:09:17,190 But for me, "Storm Front." 1366 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:18,900 People go, "Oh, man, if you're a Billy Joel fan, 1367 01:09:18,900 --> 01:09:20,400 that was so late in his career." 1368 01:09:20,860 --> 01:09:24,990 How many other artists do you know that late in their career 1369 01:09:25,450 --> 01:09:28,240 has an album that fucking moving? 1370 01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,620 There's a storm front coming 1371 01:09:33,210 --> 01:09:36,080 After being in the music business for more than 16 years, 1372 01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:37,540 Joel says it's a challenge 1373 01:09:37,540 --> 01:09:39,460 to make every new album different. 1374 01:09:39,460 --> 01:09:42,880 This time, he tried to accomplish that by working with a new producer: 1375 01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:44,760 Mick Jones of Foreigner. 1376 01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,220 On the radio 1377 01:09:47,220 --> 01:09:48,760 I never had a problem with Phil Ramone. 1378 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,100 I just wanted somebody who was a songwriter this time 1379 01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:52,560 and someone who also played an instrument, 1380 01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:53,850 which is Mick Jones. 1381 01:09:56,310 --> 01:09:59,610 I had been working with Phil Ramone up until the late '80s, 1382 01:09:59,610 --> 01:10:03,990 and we were sort of falling into what I thought was a rut. 1383 01:10:04,990 --> 01:10:08,120 And I recognized it's time for a change. 1384 01:10:10,030 --> 01:10:12,040 Phil was really hurt. And I knew he was. 1385 01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:15,580 Because the relationship was so tight. 1386 01:10:15,830 --> 01:10:18,040 It was like a breakup. 1387 01:10:21,710 --> 01:10:24,050 Well, I'm shameless 1388 01:10:24,050 --> 01:10:26,930 The personnel you're working with, they become like a family. 1389 01:10:27,300 --> 01:10:29,260 And it's hard to break out of a family. 1390 01:10:31,890 --> 01:10:35,480 It's not always easy when you get used to doing things a certain way. 1391 01:10:35,480 --> 01:10:37,310 Well, I'm standing 1392 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,360 Here for all the world to see 1393 01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:42,730 But it was something that Billy had to do. 1394 01:10:42,730 --> 01:10:46,860 He had to change to stay current and a different sound. 1395 01:10:46,860 --> 01:10:49,360 I just wanted you to wanted you to know 1396 01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:51,280 Shameless 1397 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,990 Billy did that with every album, he changed things. 1398 01:10:53,990 --> 01:10:57,000 But I mean you can see the difference on the album. 1399 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:42,540 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray 1400 01:11:42,540 --> 01:11:44,000 South Pacific, Walter Winchell 1401 01:11:44,300 --> 01:11:45,750 Joe DiMaggio 1402 01:11:45,750 --> 01:11:47,630 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon 1403 01:11:48,010 --> 01:11:49,300 Studebaker, television 1404 01:11:49,300 --> 01:11:53,220 North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe 1405 01:11:53,220 --> 01:11:55,850 "We Didn't Start the Fire" was the first single 1406 01:11:55,850 --> 01:11:57,100 from the "Storm Front" album, 1407 01:11:57,100 --> 01:11:58,890 and it was a huge hit. 1408 01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:02,520 Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom 1409 01:12:02,810 --> 01:12:06,070 Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye 1410 01:12:06,070 --> 01:12:09,280 Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen 1411 01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,700 Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye 1412 01:12:12,700 --> 01:12:14,950 We didn't start the fire 1413 01:12:15,660 --> 01:12:17,990 It was always burning since the world's... 1414 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,290 When I was writing that song, 1415 01:12:19,290 --> 01:12:22,620 I was starting to come up with an idea of headlines. 1416 01:12:22,620 --> 01:12:24,330 And I went year by year by year. 1417 01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:25,750 The headlines keep coming. 1418 01:12:25,750 --> 01:12:27,630 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov 1419 01:12:27,630 --> 01:12:29,170 Nasser and Prokofiev 1420 01:12:29,170 --> 01:12:32,260 Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc 1421 01:12:32,630 --> 01:12:35,890 There's a palpable sense of history because of these headlines. 1422 01:12:35,890 --> 01:12:37,470 Dien Bien Phu Falls 1423 01:12:37,470 --> 01:12:39,140 "Rock Around the Clock" 1424 01:12:39,140 --> 01:12:40,770 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle 1425 01:12:40,770 --> 01:12:42,350 California baseball 1426 01:12:42,350 --> 01:12:45,730 Today at 41, the punk who never finished high school 1427 01:12:45,730 --> 01:12:47,730 has a surprising new following: 1428 01:12:47,730 --> 01:12:48,860 school children. 1429 01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:50,940 We didn't start the fire 1430 01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:52,950 Some educators say Joel's song 1431 01:12:52,950 --> 01:12:55,700 is the greatest teaching tool since Sesame Street. 1432 01:12:55,700 --> 01:12:59,620 "We Didn't Start the Fire" just propelled Billy to probably, 1433 01:12:59,620 --> 01:13:02,080 at that time, the pinnacle of his career. 1434 01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:04,920 He's one of America's hugest stars: 1435 01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,380 - Billy Joel. - Billy Joel. 1436 01:13:07,380 --> 01:13:09,590 Billy Joel. 1437 01:13:09,590 --> 01:13:12,260 We just started rehearsing for a tour, 1438 01:13:12,260 --> 01:13:15,340 which we'll do in, beginning in December. 1439 01:13:15,340 --> 01:13:16,970 We're going to be out for a long, long time. 1440 01:13:16,970 --> 01:13:19,760 I don't like the travel part. I like to play. 1441 01:13:19,770 --> 01:13:22,480 When musicians are having a good time playing together, 1442 01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:24,850 you remember why did I do this in the first place. 1443 01:13:27,060 --> 01:13:28,480 You're on top of the world. 1444 01:13:38,530 --> 01:13:42,080 Call me a joker call me a fool 1445 01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:45,620 Right at this moment I'm totally cool 1446 01:13:45,620 --> 01:13:49,500 Clear as a crystal sharp as a knife 1447 01:13:49,500 --> 01:13:52,880 I feel like I'm in the prime of my life 1448 01:13:53,510 --> 01:13:56,760 "I Go to Extremes" was kind of what was going on in his life, 1449 01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,760 because he was boomeranging between being a family man 1450 01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:03,430 and tortured artist. 1451 01:14:03,430 --> 01:14:09,020 Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes 1452 01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,480 I don't know all that he was going through during that time. 1453 01:14:12,480 --> 01:14:14,530 But I saw a struggling person. 1454 01:14:14,900 --> 01:14:16,740 But what musician doesn't feel safe 1455 01:14:16,740 --> 01:14:18,360 onstage or in their music? 1456 01:14:18,370 --> 01:14:20,160 I mean, that's the only thing that won't stab you 1457 01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:21,700 in the back, you know? 1458 01:14:21,700 --> 01:14:24,160 I'm sure that that was his safe place. 1459 01:14:25,500 --> 01:14:31,340 Darling, I don't know why I go to extremes 1460 01:14:39,930 --> 01:14:43,060 It's kind of manic. Why do I go to extremes? 1461 01:14:43,060 --> 01:14:46,100 Why am I always at the end of my tether? 1462 01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:50,860 It's not always pleasant. 1463 01:14:50,860 --> 01:14:53,230 You're being torn one way, torn the other way. 1464 01:14:56,610 --> 01:14:58,780 And when you recognize that, you go, 1465 01:14:58,780 --> 01:15:00,320 I must be difficult to live with. 1466 01:15:03,580 --> 01:15:07,160 It kind of reminds me of my mom because she was very up and down. 1467 01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,960 She was depressed then she was euphoric. 1468 01:15:10,460 --> 01:15:12,210 So, it probably runs in the family. 1469 01:15:34,900 --> 01:15:36,860 We were on the "Storm Front" tour. 1470 01:15:36,860 --> 01:15:39,740 And I've seen Billy lose it. 1471 01:15:39,740 --> 01:15:41,660 And this time, he really went... 1472 01:15:42,620 --> 01:15:44,080 just bad. 1473 01:15:45,410 --> 01:15:48,910 He would come into rehearsal and sometimes be so out of it, 1474 01:15:48,910 --> 01:15:52,790 between what's going on and trying to soothe the pain, 1475 01:15:52,790 --> 01:15:55,380 he would tell me to do something on the drums 1476 01:15:55,380 --> 01:15:57,090 and then the next day come in 1477 01:15:57,090 --> 01:15:59,630 and ask me why I was doing what I'm doing. 1478 01:15:59,630 --> 01:16:00,970 And the rest of the band would look at him and go, 1479 01:16:00,970 --> 01:16:02,640 "You told him to do that yesterday." 1480 01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,970 He goes, "I did?" He just didn't remember. 1481 01:16:07,890 --> 01:16:10,980 This is the period where Billy was reeling. 1482 01:16:10,980 --> 01:16:13,940 You know, there was just too much unraveling 1483 01:16:13,940 --> 01:16:15,230 in his life. 1484 01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:18,820 One night, I woke up in bed, 1485 01:16:18,820 --> 01:16:20,570 and I was like, where's Billy? 1486 01:16:21,450 --> 01:16:23,570 And I literally started calling 1487 01:16:23,570 --> 01:16:25,330 different bars out there 1488 01:16:25,870 --> 01:16:28,000 and found him. 1489 01:16:28,500 --> 01:16:30,290 They said, "Yeah, he's here." 1490 01:16:30,290 --> 01:16:32,250 And I said, okay, don't say anything. 1491 01:16:32,250 --> 01:16:36,130 I just wanted to make sure he was someplace. 1492 01:16:37,550 --> 01:16:39,460 But a few incidents like that were starting 1493 01:16:39,460 --> 01:16:41,260 to sort of seep in here and there 1494 01:16:41,260 --> 01:16:44,180 that I was aware of that was disconcerting. 1495 01:16:44,180 --> 01:16:47,100 But he didn't really like to talk about it. 1496 01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:53,480 He preferred to just push it down deeper, away. 1497 01:16:59,650 --> 01:17:02,610 So many artists struggle with addiction. 1498 01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:05,030 They just need that outlet. 1499 01:17:05,530 --> 01:17:07,740 That, and on top of the endless pressures 1500 01:17:07,740 --> 01:17:10,330 of being in the entertainment industry. 1501 01:17:10,330 --> 01:17:12,160 The pressure of being on stage. 1502 01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:16,040 The pressure of trying to please everyone at once. 1503 01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:17,920 The pressure to keep his marriage together 1504 01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,840 with my mother or to stay going on tour. 1505 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:24,590 I just think that he felt the weight of the world 1506 01:17:24,590 --> 01:17:26,010 on his shoulders. 1507 01:17:26,010 --> 01:17:27,350 And it led him to drink. 1508 01:17:30,770 --> 01:17:32,730 So can you tell me what you're working on now? 1509 01:17:33,940 --> 01:17:37,900 Yeah, I'm writing and recording a new album 1510 01:17:37,900 --> 01:17:40,940 out here, actually, in the east end of Long Island. 1511 01:17:42,740 --> 01:17:44,280 I have a little studio set up. 1512 01:17:44,820 --> 01:17:47,410 China, very rough mix, 12/16/92. 1513 01:17:47,950 --> 01:17:50,200 Ah, ah, ah, ah 1514 01:17:50,580 --> 01:17:52,580 Ah, ah, ah, ah 1515 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,000 Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah 1516 01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,670 He wanted to do this on Shelter Island 1517 01:18:00,170 --> 01:18:03,220 because he felt so grounded on the east end of Long Island. 1518 01:18:04,170 --> 01:18:05,590 I'm compiling recordings. 1519 01:18:05,590 --> 01:18:08,470 The working title for this thing now is the Shelter Island Sessions. 1520 01:18:08,470 --> 01:18:12,770 Hey, hey 1521 01:18:14,270 --> 01:18:15,890 Advice is cheap... 1522 01:18:15,890 --> 01:18:18,400 His thoughts were like let's keep it 1523 01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:20,570 where it was born and raise it here. 1524 01:18:21,270 --> 01:18:23,730 Billy was going to produce it himself. 1525 01:18:23,740 --> 01:18:25,360 So now Billy's writing the songs, 1526 01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:26,740 writing the music, writing the words, 1527 01:18:26,740 --> 01:18:28,030 running the studio. 1528 01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,120 He couldn't do everything. There's too many hats. 1529 01:18:31,740 --> 01:18:33,450 He said, "I have to get a producer." 1530 01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:37,460 So he calls up Danny Kortchmar. 1531 01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,420 We originally took the tapes back to a different studio 1532 01:18:41,420 --> 01:18:42,590 so we could listen to them 1533 01:18:42,590 --> 01:18:44,420 and see what he had on tape. 1534 01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:45,920 He asked me, "What would you think?" 1535 01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,630 I said, there's three things I really love. 1536 01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,350 I love the songwriter. He's fabulous. 1537 01:18:51,350 --> 01:18:53,100 I love the keyboard player. 1538 01:18:53,100 --> 01:18:54,520 And I love the singer. 1539 01:18:55,480 --> 01:18:56,600 Everyone else sucks. 1540 01:18:57,020 --> 01:19:00,560 Now, I felt that these guys had gotten so complacent, 1541 01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,610 it just sounded like they were phoning it in. 1542 01:19:05,190 --> 01:19:07,240 I said, just let me bring in my own guys. 1543 01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:08,900 And if it doesn't work out, you can go back 1544 01:19:08,910 --> 01:19:10,160 to doing what you were doing. 1545 01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:11,490 No harm, no foul. 1546 01:19:12,330 --> 01:19:15,160 I don't want to shut myself off from a novel idea 1547 01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:17,830 because I'm used to doing things a certain way. 1548 01:19:18,750 --> 01:19:20,540 And I kind of liked what I was hearing. 1549 01:19:20,540 --> 01:19:23,920 But in the darkness 1550 01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,920 I see your light turned on 1551 01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,010 I hear Billy's back in the studio with another band. 1552 01:19:30,010 --> 01:19:31,550 I said, I'll call Billy. 1553 01:19:31,550 --> 01:19:34,760 He says, "What do you want?" I said, well, what's going on? 1554 01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:36,560 He goes, "What do you mean, what's going on? 1555 01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,020 You called me. What's going on?" 1556 01:19:38,020 --> 01:19:39,310 I said, Billy, I know. 1557 01:19:39,310 --> 01:19:41,850 He said, "Lib, I have to try this. 1558 01:19:41,860 --> 01:19:42,980 "I just want to try it. 1559 01:19:42,980 --> 01:19:44,320 I'm going to do it for one song." 1560 01:19:45,570 --> 01:19:47,440 One song turned into two songs, 1561 01:19:47,440 --> 01:19:50,820 turned into three songs, turned into the whole album. 1562 01:19:52,950 --> 01:19:55,200 It was time to turn the page. 1563 01:19:56,330 --> 01:19:58,580 Billy turns the page in a hard way. 1564 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:01,830 He was my drummer for a long time. 1565 01:20:02,290 --> 01:20:04,130 It just wasn't working with me and Liberty. 1566 01:20:04,130 --> 01:20:06,760 There were differences in tempo. 1567 01:20:07,420 --> 01:20:09,760 There were differences in our personal lives. 1568 01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,390 And it was like a divorce. And it was acrimonious. 1569 01:20:16,430 --> 01:20:18,720 There was tension created because of that. 1570 01:20:18,730 --> 01:20:20,140 There was a lot of friction. 1571 01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,100 There was a lot of hard feelings. 1572 01:20:26,020 --> 01:20:28,570 I can remember being upset about it. 1573 01:20:29,070 --> 01:20:31,200 I sent him a fax and I said, Billy, 1574 01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:32,860 I realize you've got to do what you got to do. 1575 01:20:32,860 --> 01:20:34,200 Your name's on the record. 1576 01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:36,160 But if you ever need me, if you need my help, 1577 01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:37,700 call me, I'll be there. 1578 01:20:37,700 --> 01:20:39,750 But if Danny Kortchmar needs my help, 1579 01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:41,460 tell him to kiss my ass. 1580 01:20:42,500 --> 01:20:44,290 Well, Billy took that fax and just stuck it 1581 01:20:44,290 --> 01:20:47,130 on the wall at the, at the studio. 1582 01:20:47,750 --> 01:20:49,800 A lot of people are angry at me 1583 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,300 because they think I did something bad to Liberty. 1584 01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,010 And I'm not going to make an excuse for it. 1585 01:20:55,510 --> 01:20:58,640 It wasn't working out with us, and that's what happened. 1586 01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:01,480 I think Lib was kind of bitter about it. 1587 01:21:02,440 --> 01:21:04,940 But we made up, and we're friends again. 1588 01:21:07,020 --> 01:21:10,780 B, D, and F sharp in our right hand. 1589 01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:15,530 B, D, E. 1590 01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:20,490 Just to A, C sharp. 1591 01:21:20,500 --> 01:21:21,870 I knew he was brilliant, 1592 01:21:21,870 --> 01:21:24,460 but I had no idea what a badass he was 1593 01:21:24,460 --> 01:21:25,960 until I got in the studio with him. 1594 01:21:26,630 --> 01:21:28,630 His adaption of European music into pop music 1595 01:21:28,630 --> 01:21:31,460 was something that practically nobody was doing. 1596 01:21:31,460 --> 01:21:34,470 Everyone else is coming from folk music, blues, 1597 01:21:34,470 --> 01:21:36,260 or pop music of the day. 1598 01:21:37,050 --> 01:21:39,970 He started using elements that weren't being used that much. 1599 01:21:42,430 --> 01:21:45,020 G, D, F sharp on the right hand. 1600 01:21:46,730 --> 01:21:48,360 I saw a quote from Neil Diamond, 1601 01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:49,770 who I think is a terrific songwriter, 1602 01:21:49,770 --> 01:21:51,230 and he was talking about 1603 01:21:51,230 --> 01:21:53,780 how he's become comfortable with his songwriting. 1604 01:21:53,780 --> 01:21:56,990 He said, "I forgave myself for not being Beethoven." 1605 01:21:56,990 --> 01:21:59,780 And as soon as I read that, I realized that's my problem. 1606 01:21:59,780 --> 01:22:03,660 I have not forgiven myself for not being Beethoven. 1607 01:22:03,660 --> 01:22:06,000 And I would beat myself up because, to me, 1608 01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:08,460 Beethoven was the greatest composer who ever lived. 1609 01:22:16,550 --> 01:22:19,640 My own history as a musician started 1610 01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:21,510 with me hearing classical music, 1611 01:22:21,510 --> 01:22:24,390 because my father was a classically trained pianist, 1612 01:22:24,390 --> 01:22:27,390 and those were the radio stations my mom listened to. 1613 01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:30,060 A lot of kids first started listening to the radio, 1614 01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:31,480 they listened to pop music. 1615 01:22:31,860 --> 01:22:35,530 I heard Mozart, I heard Bach, I heard Beethoven. 1616 01:22:35,530 --> 01:22:37,240 And it was entrancing. 1617 01:22:37,910 --> 01:22:40,570 I actually brought that classical education 1618 01:22:40,580 --> 01:22:42,200 into my writing. 1619 01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:43,910 It was whether it could be played 1620 01:22:43,910 --> 01:22:47,120 as a piece on its own without words. 1621 01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,080 Take, for example, "Uptown Girl." 1622 01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:51,170 It could have been a Mozart piece. 1623 01:23:03,010 --> 01:23:06,270 And that's imbued a lot of my songs. 1624 01:23:06,270 --> 01:23:08,940 This night... 1625 01:23:08,940 --> 01:23:13,440 Like, "This Night" is actually a direct lift from Beethoven. 1626 01:23:13,440 --> 01:23:15,030 It's from the "Pathétique." 1627 01:23:24,540 --> 01:23:26,710 It was Beethoven at his most melodic. 1628 01:23:31,460 --> 01:23:33,590 But I use his theme for the "Pathétique" 1629 01:23:33,590 --> 01:23:35,170 to have the chorus of "This Night." 1630 01:23:35,170 --> 01:23:36,300 But I gave him credit. 1631 01:23:36,300 --> 01:23:37,630 It says it on the back of the album: 1632 01:23:37,630 --> 01:23:38,880 "L.v. Beethoven." 1633 01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:40,430 People said, "He ripped off Beethoven!" 1634 01:23:40,430 --> 01:23:41,680 I didn't rip him off. 1635 01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,510 I didn't pay him, but I didn't rip him off. 1636 01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,310 We go back a long time. 1637 01:23:47,310 --> 01:23:49,850 I played violin on "Downeaster 'Alexa.'" 1638 01:23:49,850 --> 01:23:53,900 And I noticed that he's a real classical music lover. 1639 01:23:53,900 --> 01:23:56,610 He can play the piano, he can do the orchestration. 1640 01:23:57,150 --> 01:24:00,410 What I admire is his harmonic progressions. 1641 01:24:00,820 --> 01:24:02,280 Like "Allentown," 1642 01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,950 it's full of little harmonic modulations. 1643 01:24:09,620 --> 01:24:13,540 I'm always fascinated how he maneuvers the harmonies. 1644 01:24:13,540 --> 01:24:16,300 In classical music, it's the same thing. 1645 01:24:16,300 --> 01:24:18,710 All of us are standing on the shoulders of giants. 1646 01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,300 Music doesn't just come out of the air. 1647 01:24:21,300 --> 01:24:23,260 It comes from work and study. 1648 01:24:23,260 --> 01:24:25,680 You take what's been done. 1649 01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,430 You hear it, you absorb it, and then you execute it, 1650 01:24:29,430 --> 01:24:32,190 but you enhance it with your signature. 1651 01:24:32,190 --> 01:24:34,310 That's how music lives on. 1652 01:24:36,650 --> 01:24:38,230 I don't really know how to play it. 1653 01:24:42,450 --> 01:24:44,490 So this is the left hand arpeggiating. 1654 01:24:44,950 --> 01:24:46,740 Nobody grew up in a test tube. 1655 01:24:46,740 --> 01:24:48,450 We all grew up with influences, 1656 01:24:48,450 --> 01:24:52,580 and I'm probably stealing all the time and not even aware of it. 1657 01:24:54,290 --> 01:24:57,670 G... 1658 01:24:57,670 --> 01:25:00,630 He has all this harmonic stuff in his head. 1659 01:25:00,630 --> 01:25:03,380 Remember, he's just following his instincts 1660 01:25:03,380 --> 01:25:05,340 when he sits at the piano, you know? 1661 01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:07,810 And his instincts have a lot to do with classical music, 1662 01:25:07,810 --> 01:25:10,100 and also blues and rock and roll, which he loved. 1663 01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:13,140 That album is a journey. 1664 01:25:13,140 --> 01:25:15,230 One song begat another song. 1665 01:25:15,690 --> 01:25:17,270 There's a song cycle here. 1666 01:25:18,690 --> 01:25:21,190 A lot of it was how I write. 1667 01:25:21,190 --> 01:25:24,610 There's this dream state I get into, 1668 01:25:24,610 --> 01:25:26,240 almost like a trance. 1669 01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,280 There's a flow to it like a river. 1670 01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:31,660 Oh, another thing I thought of: 1671 01:25:31,660 --> 01:25:33,960 when we do the stops... 1672 01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:35,880 Da da da da da 1673 01:25:37,540 --> 01:25:38,880 How do you pick up... 1674 01:25:39,630 --> 01:25:43,550 The song "The River of Dreams" came to me in a dream. 1675 01:25:51,980 --> 01:25:54,770 I woke up hearing the rhythm, 1676 01:25:54,770 --> 01:25:56,850 hearing the call and response, 1677 01:25:56,860 --> 01:25:58,560 the gospel aspect of it. 1678 01:25:58,570 --> 01:26:00,320 I'm not a gospel artist, 1679 01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,490 but that was so different to me. 1680 01:26:06,450 --> 01:26:08,160 And I said, I'm not going to write this. 1681 01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:10,120 No, no, no. I rejected it immediately. 1682 01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:12,580 In the middle of the, I go walking in the 1683 01:26:13,910 --> 01:26:16,250 Call and response, which they do in church. 1684 01:26:16,250 --> 01:26:18,380 And I went and took a shower. 1685 01:26:18,380 --> 01:26:20,840 And I'm soaping myself and I'm singing... 1686 01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:22,420 In the middle of the I... 1687 01:26:22,420 --> 01:26:24,760 And it would not go away. 1688 01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:27,090 It became part of my being. 1689 01:26:27,090 --> 01:26:29,010 It wouldn't leave me, and it was like, 1690 01:26:29,010 --> 01:26:32,220 you're going to have to write this whether you want to or not. 1691 01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:35,980 When something is that powerful and that evocative, 1692 01:26:36,310 --> 01:26:37,980 you should usually go with it. 1693 01:26:37,980 --> 01:26:39,230 It needs to be written. 1694 01:26:41,020 --> 01:26:43,190 In the middle of the night 1695 01:26:43,690 --> 01:26:45,820 I go walking in my sleep 1696 01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,030 Walking down to the banks 1697 01:26:49,030 --> 01:26:51,660 Of a river so deep 1698 01:26:51,660 --> 01:26:53,910 I must be looking for something 1699 01:26:54,450 --> 01:26:57,040 Something sacred I lost 1700 01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,710 But the river is wide 1701 01:26:59,710 --> 01:27:02,250 And it's too hard to cross 1702 01:27:02,250 --> 01:27:04,920 In the middle of the night 1703 01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:06,720 I go walking in my sleep 1704 01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,430 I was going through a catharsis. 1705 01:27:08,800 --> 01:27:11,430 I had to rediscover faith in humanity. 1706 01:27:11,430 --> 01:27:14,510 I needed to renew my faith in myself. 1707 01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,140 I needed to be redeemed. 1708 01:27:17,190 --> 01:27:19,100 Even though I know the river is wide 1709 01:27:19,100 --> 01:27:22,110 I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore 1710 01:27:22,570 --> 01:27:24,520 I try to cross to the opposite side 1711 01:27:24,530 --> 01:27:27,780 So I can finally find out what I've been looking for 1712 01:27:27,780 --> 01:27:30,280 In the middle of the night 1713 01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:33,370 I go walking in my sleep 1714 01:27:33,370 --> 01:27:34,830 Through the valley of fear 1715 01:27:34,830 --> 01:27:35,950 Valley of fear 1716 01:27:35,950 --> 01:27:37,370 To a river so deep 1717 01:27:37,370 --> 01:27:38,710 River so deep 1718 01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:40,960 I've been searching for something 1719 01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:43,750 - Taken out of my soul - Taken out of my soul 1720 01:27:43,750 --> 01:27:45,550 Something I'd never lose 1721 01:27:45,550 --> 01:27:47,760 - Never lose - Something somebody stole 1722 01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:49,840 By the time I got to the end of the album, 1723 01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:51,220 I recognized that 1724 01:27:51,220 --> 01:27:53,640 the song form had come full circle. 1725 01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:56,140 I was tired of writing words. 1726 01:27:56,890 --> 01:27:58,810 Not that I was going to give up music 1727 01:27:58,810 --> 01:28:00,690 or that I was going to stop writing music. 1728 01:28:00,690 --> 01:28:02,690 But I've had my say. 1729 01:28:03,230 --> 01:28:07,150 This is pretty much it for my songwriting. 1730 01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:10,950 Sitting here in Avalon 1731 01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:15,660 Looking at the pouring rain 1732 01:28:15,660 --> 01:28:18,410 I was tired of the tyranny of the rhyme. 1733 01:28:19,330 --> 01:28:22,120 ...everybody's home again 1734 01:28:22,130 --> 01:28:25,040 I asked him why he stopped writing pop songs, 1735 01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:28,210 and he said because it's the most awful, 1736 01:28:28,210 --> 01:28:32,220 excruciating experience he will ever go through. 1737 01:28:32,220 --> 01:28:36,390 Because he's a perfectionist and it was ruining his life. 1738 01:28:36,390 --> 01:28:42,140 These are the last words I have to say 1739 01:28:42,150 --> 01:28:44,480 Writing is a have-to kind of thing. 1740 01:28:44,480 --> 01:28:45,820 It's like being hungry. 1741 01:28:46,110 --> 01:28:49,110 If you don't have that in you, you're just not going to write. 1742 01:28:50,070 --> 01:28:54,280 There will be other words some other day 1743 01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:57,950 I think by the time he wrote "Famous Last Words," 1744 01:28:57,950 --> 01:29:00,750 he was like, I don't want to compete with myself anymore. 1745 01:29:00,750 --> 01:29:03,670 I don't want to be compared to "Just The Way You Are" 1746 01:29:03,670 --> 01:29:05,670 or "The Stranger" or any of that. 1747 01:29:05,670 --> 01:29:07,790 I think there's a time when you have to be 1748 01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:09,340 a philosopher and say, oh, 1749 01:29:09,340 --> 01:29:12,420 now is the time to be silently stoic. 1750 01:29:12,430 --> 01:29:14,470 And I respect that. 1751 01:29:14,470 --> 01:29:18,930 These are the last words I have to say 1752 01:29:18,930 --> 01:29:20,140 I still feel like it was 1753 01:29:20,140 --> 01:29:21,850 the natural progression of things. 1754 01:29:22,810 --> 01:29:26,690 Say 1755 01:29:26,690 --> 01:29:28,360 So I kind of closed the book. 1756 01:29:31,650 --> 01:29:32,780 Thank you. 1757 01:29:33,950 --> 01:29:35,450 When Billy stopped writing, 1758 01:29:35,450 --> 01:29:38,120 he talked about how once he became famous, 1759 01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:39,450 everybody read too much 1760 01:29:39,450 --> 01:29:41,870 into whatever he had to say in his songs, 1761 01:29:41,870 --> 01:29:43,750 and everything got seen or heard 1762 01:29:43,750 --> 01:29:46,080 through the filter of his celebrity, 1763 01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:48,630 of his private life, his marriages. 1764 01:29:48,630 --> 01:29:51,460 And something snapped. Something broke. 1765 01:29:54,220 --> 01:29:56,640 I think some of it might also have to do with fear. 1766 01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:59,140 He didn't want to be someone doing lesser work 1767 01:29:59,140 --> 01:30:00,520 as he got older. 1768 01:30:03,430 --> 01:30:04,940 I think Billy wanted a certain type 1769 01:30:04,940 --> 01:30:07,310 of recognition that he had never gotten. 1770 01:30:07,310 --> 01:30:10,690 Kind of serious, literary, poetic. 1771 01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:14,740 The critical response to Billy kind of improved over the years, 1772 01:30:14,740 --> 01:30:16,450 but I don't think it was quite enough for him. 1773 01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:20,030 There's something a little sad about it. 1774 01:30:20,030 --> 01:30:21,870 You know, here's this person who was like a fount 1775 01:30:21,870 --> 01:30:25,000 of creativity who's gone dry. 1776 01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:26,750 To see that person still around 1777 01:30:26,750 --> 01:30:28,830 as a very much functioning artist, 1778 01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:30,750 performing with as much, sort of, 1779 01:30:31,340 --> 01:30:34,090 vivacity as he had before, 1780 01:30:34,090 --> 01:30:37,680 but having stopped writing, it's almost like a puzzle. 1781 01:30:39,550 --> 01:30:41,300 In the middle of the night 1782 01:30:41,310 --> 01:30:42,430 Middle of the night 1783 01:30:42,430 --> 01:30:45,020 I go walking in my sleep 1784 01:30:45,020 --> 01:30:47,480 Through the desert of truth 1785 01:30:47,480 --> 01:30:50,150 - To a river so deep - River so deep 1786 01:30:50,150 --> 01:30:52,900 - We all end in the ocean - End in the ocean 1787 01:30:52,900 --> 01:30:55,110 We all start in the streams... 1788 01:30:55,110 --> 01:30:56,780 After I wrote "River of Dreams," 1789 01:30:56,780 --> 01:30:59,360 it was necessary for me to stop writing songs. 1790 01:30:59,370 --> 01:31:01,530 But it was a hit. Go figure. 1791 01:31:01,530 --> 01:31:04,870 ...the middle of the night 1792 01:31:04,870 --> 01:31:07,460 I go walking in the in the middle of the... 1793 01:31:08,330 --> 01:31:10,290 Not only did he make that money back, 1794 01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:12,880 he came back bigger and better... 1795 01:31:14,050 --> 01:31:15,960 maybe because of the adversity. 1796 01:31:15,970 --> 01:31:17,760 You knock me down, fuck you. 1797 01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:19,180 I'm coming back with a vengeance. 1798 01:31:31,270 --> 01:31:33,150 It has been three years since his last tour, 1799 01:31:33,150 --> 01:31:35,530 but having a number-one album to take to the road 1800 01:31:35,530 --> 01:31:37,780 makes getting on stage a whole lot easier. 1801 01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:40,450 With the crowd screaming for more at the end of the night, 1802 01:31:40,450 --> 01:31:43,660 Billy ducks out the back door and it's on to the next show. 1803 01:31:43,660 --> 01:31:45,120 And that next show is in Boston. 1804 01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:46,830 Then it's on to Philadelphia and New York. 1805 01:31:46,830 --> 01:31:49,330 The River of Dreams tour will be on the road 1806 01:31:49,330 --> 01:31:50,870 for two years. 1807 01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,340 We were just wondering how your daughter, Alexa, 1808 01:31:53,340 --> 01:31:56,300 and Christie handle you being out on the road for so long. 1809 01:31:56,300 --> 01:31:57,920 Do they go along with you? 1810 01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:00,430 Well, from time to time, they will join me. 1811 01:32:00,430 --> 01:32:03,390 The fact that Alexa is in second grade now 1812 01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,680 tends to make it more difficult for her to come out. 1813 01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:08,730 But it's one of the reasons that I've referred to this 1814 01:32:08,730 --> 01:32:11,150 as the last long tour that I'm going to do. 1815 01:32:11,690 --> 01:32:13,150 I really don't want to continue 1816 01:32:13,150 --> 01:32:15,400 to live a life of Willy Loman. 1817 01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:16,860 You want to watch your kid grow up. 1818 01:32:17,490 --> 01:32:19,280 Yeah. I don't want to become Uncle Daddy. 1819 01:32:19,820 --> 01:32:22,410 Our relationship went from lots of fun 1820 01:32:22,410 --> 01:32:25,530 and really totally enjoying each other and everything 1821 01:32:25,540 --> 01:32:29,330 to his work consuming him. 1822 01:32:30,710 --> 01:32:33,290 And if I did go on the road, I wasn't seeing him 1823 01:32:33,290 --> 01:32:36,590 because the unwind period after the show 1824 01:32:36,590 --> 01:32:40,470 was going on till late into the night. 1825 01:32:41,260 --> 01:32:43,010 And it's like, what am I even doing here? 1826 01:32:43,930 --> 01:32:45,890 And I just got like, I don't know what to do. 1827 01:32:45,890 --> 01:32:50,640 But I can't be lonely, just me and Alexa 1828 01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:52,230 in this big old house 1829 01:32:52,230 --> 01:32:55,310 that was supposed to be so full of life 1830 01:32:55,310 --> 01:32:59,440 and love and music and laughter and all of that. 1831 01:33:00,950 --> 01:33:04,030 Things were starting to deteriorate. 1832 01:33:05,450 --> 01:33:07,200 I was in a relationship with someone 1833 01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:09,000 who I cared deeply about, 1834 01:33:09,540 --> 01:33:12,660 but I was not able to be at home. 1835 01:33:12,670 --> 01:33:14,670 I was not able to be with my family. 1836 01:33:15,500 --> 01:33:17,420 It was a very sad time for me. 1837 01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:23,590 Goodnight, my angel, time to close your eyes 1838 01:33:23,590 --> 01:33:28,810 And save these questions for another day 1839 01:33:28,810 --> 01:33:31,680 At that time, I think Alexa knew that 1840 01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:34,100 her parents were going to split up. 1841 01:33:34,100 --> 01:33:37,440 And for a child, that's a very traumatic thing. 1842 01:33:37,440 --> 01:33:40,610 She needed to know I would always be there. 1843 01:33:40,610 --> 01:33:46,200 I promised I would never leave you... 1844 01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:48,700 "Goodnight, My Angel," "Lullabye," 1845 01:33:48,700 --> 01:33:51,660 I can't even really talk about it without choking up. 1846 01:33:51,660 --> 01:33:55,710 Wherever you may go no matter where... 1847 01:33:55,710 --> 01:33:58,590 He wrote that song saying no matter what, 1848 01:33:59,130 --> 01:34:00,460 I will never leave you. 1849 01:34:00,460 --> 01:34:01,880 ...far away 1850 01:34:03,170 --> 01:34:04,920 Goodnight, my angel 1851 01:34:04,930 --> 01:34:08,430 Now it's time to sleep 1852 01:34:08,930 --> 01:34:14,230 And still so many things I want to say 1853 01:34:14,230 --> 01:34:15,890 I just remember that it was 1854 01:34:15,900 --> 01:34:19,520 a very emotionally tumultuous time. 1855 01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:23,740 When we went sailing on an emerald... 1856 01:34:23,740 --> 01:34:25,070 I don't think it's a secret 1857 01:34:25,070 --> 01:34:28,070 that his drinking got pretty bad, 1858 01:34:28,070 --> 01:34:30,080 and he couldn't really remember 1859 01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:31,790 what he did when he was drinking, 1860 01:34:31,790 --> 01:34:36,580 and so he didn't really know how he could hurt people. 1861 01:34:37,290 --> 01:34:39,960 The water's dark and deep 1862 01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:42,170 Inside this ancient heart... 1863 01:34:42,170 --> 01:34:43,630 I would just pretend that I was sleeping 1864 01:34:43,630 --> 01:34:45,090 when he'd come in, because I didn't want 1865 01:34:45,090 --> 01:34:46,550 to see him in that condition. 1866 01:34:46,550 --> 01:34:50,800 And one night, we had an argument and I said, 1867 01:34:50,810 --> 01:34:53,140 I really can't take this anymore. 1868 01:34:53,810 --> 01:34:55,520 And I'm just going to take Alexa 1869 01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:57,440 back up to New York and leave. 1870 01:34:57,940 --> 01:35:00,900 And he said, "Yeah, fine. Go." 1871 01:35:04,490 --> 01:35:07,490 I realized love is not concrete. 1872 01:35:07,490 --> 01:35:09,410 You know, you feel like it is. 1873 01:35:09,410 --> 01:35:11,700 But there are things eating away at it. 1874 01:35:11,700 --> 01:35:15,080 And in the end, it all catches up. 1875 01:35:15,080 --> 01:35:16,580 And it's hard. 1876 01:35:17,580 --> 01:35:20,380 And I was so devastated. 1877 01:35:20,380 --> 01:35:22,840 Someday your child may cry 1878 01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:26,880 And if you sing this lullaby 1879 01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:30,800 Then in your heart there will always... 1880 01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:33,260 I tried. I wanted it to work. 1881 01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:37,890 I knew how lucky I was, having music and all of that, 1882 01:35:38,690 --> 01:35:42,110 but... it just didn't work. 1883 01:35:43,940 --> 01:35:46,780 " playing) 1884 01:35:48,030 --> 01:35:50,360 Someday we'll all be gone 1885 01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:54,370 But lullabies go on and on 1886 01:35:54,370 --> 01:35:56,540 They never die 1887 01:35:56,540 --> 01:36:00,710 That's how you and I 1888 01:36:01,380 --> 01:36:04,590 Will be 1889 01:36:26,280 --> 01:36:29,400 In every heart 1890 01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:32,570 There is a room 1891 01:36:33,410 --> 01:36:38,410 A sanctuary safe and strong 1892 01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:42,040 To heal the wounds 1893 01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:45,790 From lovers past 1894 01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:51,420 Until a new one comes along 1895 01:36:51,430 --> 01:36:53,680 I would say if there was a skeleton key 1896 01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,550 to unlocking what's behind the songs, 1897 01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,430 it would probably be my relationships with others. 1898 01:36:59,980 --> 01:37:01,980 Everything I write is influenced 1899 01:37:01,980 --> 01:37:03,480 by someone else. 1900 01:37:04,610 --> 01:37:07,480 And still I feel 1901 01:37:07,480 --> 01:37:11,240 I said too much 1902 01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:13,450 You know, true love isn't always floating 1903 01:37:13,450 --> 01:37:15,110 on clouds and ecstasy. 1904 01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:16,530 A lot of it's pain. 1905 01:37:17,830 --> 01:37:23,210 And every time I've held a rose 1906 01:37:23,210 --> 01:37:28,460 It seems I only felt the thorns 1907 01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:35,010 And so it goes 1908 01:37:35,010 --> 01:37:39,350 And so will you soon I suppose 1909 01:37:39,350 --> 01:37:41,060 It's so hard to write something 1910 01:37:41,060 --> 01:37:44,770 very simple and very profound. 1911 01:37:44,770 --> 01:37:47,520 It only happens once in a lifetime, sometimes. 1912 01:37:48,770 --> 01:37:52,820 Then that would be my worst mistake 1913 01:37:52,820 --> 01:37:54,820 It's got discords in it. 1914 01:37:54,820 --> 01:37:57,580 It's got a sour note in almost every chord. 1915 01:38:08,380 --> 01:38:10,630 It's a note that needs to be resolved. 1916 01:38:10,630 --> 01:38:13,880 It's a suspended chord. And it builds tension. 1917 01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:18,550 That's if the choice were mine to make 1918 01:38:18,550 --> 01:38:21,220 It's sort of like the end of a romance. 1919 01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:25,810 No resolution, which is terrifying to consider. 1920 01:38:26,480 --> 01:38:29,020 And you can have 1921 01:38:29,020 --> 01:38:32,690 This heart to break 1922 01:38:33,780 --> 01:38:34,950 That's why I wrote it. 1923 01:38:36,570 --> 01:38:38,070 Unresolved chords. 1924 01:38:38,070 --> 01:38:44,540 And so it goes 1925 01:38:44,540 --> 01:38:48,420 And you're the only one 1926 01:38:48,420 --> 01:38:52,420 Who knows 1927 01:38:54,210 --> 01:38:57,010 He is back. The one and only Piano Man, Billy Joel, 1928 01:38:57,010 --> 01:38:59,140 has just kicked off his East Coast tour. 1929 01:38:59,140 --> 01:39:00,930 The first reaction when you hear that an artist 1930 01:39:00,930 --> 01:39:03,680 is going back on the road is, oh, he's promoting a new album. 1931 01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:05,180 This is a unique concept. 1932 01:39:05,180 --> 01:39:07,730 This is the first time we've gone on tour without a new studio album. 1933 01:39:07,730 --> 01:39:09,100 So it's new for us too. 1934 01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:13,400 Between now and the end of the year, 1935 01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:16,110 he'll travel Europe, Asia, and the US, 1936 01:39:16,110 --> 01:39:18,070 nearly a hundred performances. 1937 01:39:18,070 --> 01:39:19,280 He is road weary, 1938 01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:21,530 but for those two hours he's onstage, 1939 01:39:21,530 --> 01:39:22,990 he still loves it. 1940 01:39:22,990 --> 01:39:24,580 Come out, Virginia 1941 01:39:24,580 --> 01:39:26,080 Don't let me wait 1942 01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:29,250 You Catholic girls start much too late 1943 01:39:29,250 --> 01:39:32,090 Sooner or later, it comes down to fate 1944 01:39:32,090 --> 01:39:34,710 I might as well be the one 1945 01:39:35,710 --> 01:39:37,760 Performing music, you have to leave it 1946 01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:39,050 all on the stage. 1947 01:39:39,050 --> 01:39:40,720 You can't hold back. 1948 01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:42,890 And there's a euphoria to it. 1949 01:39:43,390 --> 01:39:45,970 I think I needed that at that point in my life. 1950 01:39:45,980 --> 01:39:47,850 ...have done 1951 01:39:48,390 --> 01:39:51,400 Only the good die young 1952 01:39:51,980 --> 01:39:54,020 That's what I said. 1953 01:39:55,150 --> 01:40:00,240 Only the good die young 1954 01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:02,950 And that's when I started doing the Elton tours. 1955 01:40:02,950 --> 01:40:04,660 Tonight, the Piano Man 1956 01:40:04,660 --> 01:40:06,250 met the Rocket Man onstage. 1957 01:40:06,620 --> 01:40:10,040 Thus, the stage was set for what some call the tour of the century. 1958 01:40:11,710 --> 01:40:14,840 Friday night I crashed your party 1959 01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:18,130 Saturday I said I'm sorry 1960 01:40:18,130 --> 01:40:21,510 Sunday came and trashed me out... 1961 01:40:21,510 --> 01:40:23,550 Well, I was aware that the perception was 1962 01:40:23,550 --> 01:40:25,140 that there was a rivalry. 1963 01:40:25,600 --> 01:40:27,020 I always got compared to Elton 1964 01:40:27,020 --> 01:40:29,020 because he hit big first. 1965 01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:31,600 And I did resent it at the time, 1966 01:40:32,230 --> 01:40:33,440 but I got over it. 1967 01:40:34,020 --> 01:40:35,900 You may be right 1968 01:40:37,150 --> 01:40:39,240 I may be crazy 1969 01:40:40,570 --> 01:40:43,070 There was a healthy competition going on between the two of them. 1970 01:40:43,070 --> 01:40:45,120 They're different kinds of piano players, 1971 01:40:45,120 --> 01:40:48,160 so I thought they complemented each other fantastically. 1972 01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:51,830 Don't try to save me 1973 01:40:52,370 --> 01:40:54,290 Our time touring with Elton, 1974 01:40:54,290 --> 01:40:57,460 it was like being in camp. It was fun! 1975 01:40:57,960 --> 01:41:01,340 And I enjoyed watching that camaraderie between the two there. 1976 01:41:03,510 --> 01:41:04,840 Well, how many outfits backstage? 1977 01:41:04,850 --> 01:41:06,220 I got rid of a lot recently, 1978 01:41:06,220 --> 01:41:08,220 so I probably have about 20 outfits. 1979 01:41:08,220 --> 01:41:09,600 - Twenty! - And I've got more coming. 1980 01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:10,850 And, now how many do you have? 1981 01:41:10,850 --> 01:41:12,100 This is it. 1982 01:41:14,150 --> 01:41:16,690 We enjoyed it and the audiences liked it, 1983 01:41:16,690 --> 01:41:18,900 and it got bigger and bigger and bigger, 1984 01:41:19,490 --> 01:41:22,240 where there's 50, 80,000 people. 1985 01:41:22,740 --> 01:41:25,780 And it went on for 16 years. 1986 01:41:25,780 --> 01:41:27,870 You may be right 1987 01:41:29,330 --> 01:41:33,210 I said a-one, two one, two, three, four 1988 01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,260 And we've been reading so much lately 1989 01:41:48,260 --> 01:41:51,100 that pop may be a thing of the past for you, 1990 01:41:51,100 --> 01:41:53,520 and that classical music is now the direction 1991 01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:54,980 that you're going in full time. 1992 01:41:54,980 --> 01:41:56,600 - Any truth to that? - Yeah. 1993 01:41:56,610 --> 01:41:58,690 I'm not saying I'm, you know, good enough 1994 01:41:58,690 --> 01:42:01,030 to be a classical composer yet, but I'm starting. 1995 01:42:01,030 --> 01:42:02,400 You know, I've been writing music 1996 01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,030 for this guy named Billy Joel for all these years. 1997 01:42:05,030 --> 01:42:06,490 I'm kind of getting tired of him. 1998 01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:09,910 When I first started writing music, 1999 01:42:09,910 --> 01:42:11,990 classical music was the girl next door. 2000 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:13,830 And then I was swept away 2001 01:42:13,830 --> 01:42:16,080 by this temptress of rock and roll, 2002 01:42:16,080 --> 01:42:18,540 you know, in black fishnet stockings 2003 01:42:18,540 --> 01:42:20,550 and smeared mascara who smoked cigarettes. 2004 01:42:20,550 --> 01:42:24,380 And that was a hot affair for, you know, 25 years of my life. 2005 01:42:24,380 --> 01:42:27,640 And then all of a sudden, I discovered the girl next door again. 2006 01:42:38,020 --> 01:42:40,820 The first piece that I finished in its entirety 2007 01:42:40,820 --> 01:42:43,110 was called "Soliloquy on a Separation," 2008 01:42:43,610 --> 01:42:46,110 which was about my daughter visiting with me 2009 01:42:46,110 --> 01:42:48,530 after we got divorced and then leaving. 2010 01:42:48,530 --> 01:42:51,580 And those emotions I was having 2011 01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,620 weren't something I could easily write with lyrics. 2012 01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:57,250 Like, I see my kid come, I see my kid go. 2013 01:42:57,250 --> 01:42:59,710 It hurts so bad to want to be a father 2014 01:42:59,710 --> 01:43:01,170 and not be able to be one. 2015 01:43:01,170 --> 01:43:04,720 And I wrote these chords: "We say goodbye." 2016 01:43:06,510 --> 01:43:08,300 "And then I watch as you leave." 2017 01:43:12,060 --> 01:43:14,180 "And then I slowly return..." 2018 01:43:15,140 --> 01:43:16,520 "...to this quiet house." 2019 01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:18,310 And I said, why do I have to say that? 2020 01:43:19,060 --> 01:43:20,690 The music is saying it. 2021 01:43:23,730 --> 01:43:25,070 Maybe at that point in my life, 2022 01:43:25,070 --> 01:43:28,030 I was ready to express myself purely with music. 2023 01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:31,990 But I realized when I had been writing these pieces, 2024 01:43:31,990 --> 01:43:33,830 I'm not the guy to play this stuff. 2025 01:43:34,200 --> 01:43:36,660 I can play bits of it in increments, 2026 01:43:36,660 --> 01:43:38,160 and I can compose well enough 2027 01:43:38,170 --> 01:43:39,750 to have somebody do the notation. 2028 01:43:39,750 --> 01:43:43,210 But I can't play the bravura the way it should be played. 2029 01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:46,960 Hyung-ki, that's his expertise, 2030 01:43:46,970 --> 01:43:50,090 is Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Tchaikovsky. 2031 01:43:50,090 --> 01:43:52,140 And this is the guy who I want to play my stuff. 2032 01:43:53,810 --> 01:43:55,930 Do you want the first time to be 2033 01:43:55,930 --> 01:43:58,730 like a suggestion or you want, you want... 2034 01:43:59,940 --> 01:44:01,980 - No, it can be stronger. - It can be stronger, right? 2035 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:04,150 So it's already present. 2036 01:44:06,360 --> 01:44:10,490 He lost the ability to read music 2037 01:44:10,490 --> 01:44:11,820 and to notate. 2038 01:44:11,820 --> 01:44:13,490 And so everything he does from ear, 2039 01:44:13,490 --> 01:44:15,490 which is absolutely mind boggling to me. 2040 01:44:15,490 --> 01:44:16,700 It's incredible. 2041 01:44:18,410 --> 01:44:20,580 A lot of people who are his fans 2042 01:44:20,580 --> 01:44:21,710 don't actually understand. 2043 01:44:21,710 --> 01:44:23,170 Wait a minute. He's the Piano Man. 2044 01:44:23,170 --> 01:44:25,540 He's a great pianist. What does he need you for? 2045 01:44:25,550 --> 01:44:27,800 And of course, he's a fantastic pianist. 2046 01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:31,220 But it's a bit like asking a ballet dancer to breakdance, 2047 01:44:31,220 --> 01:44:32,930 or vice versa. 2048 01:44:32,930 --> 01:44:35,640 I mean, they're both brilliant in their field and virtuosic, 2049 01:44:36,010 --> 01:44:38,390 but one can't necessarily do the other. 2050 01:44:39,270 --> 01:44:40,480 And then it has to go... 2051 01:44:40,480 --> 01:44:42,100 And then that F would open it up there. 2052 01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:47,730 He hears a certain way. 2053 01:44:47,730 --> 01:44:50,950 Classical music is something that really is 2054 01:44:50,950 --> 01:44:52,320 very close to his heart. 2055 01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:53,450 And you feel it. 2056 01:44:54,450 --> 01:44:58,700 We worked on these ten piano pieces which would eventually become 2057 01:44:58,700 --> 01:45:00,620 the album "Fantasies & Delusions." 2058 01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:02,960 The reason I named it "Fantasies & Delusions," 2059 01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:04,630 because I recognized 2060 01:45:04,630 --> 01:45:07,380 I'm delusional to think I'm a classical composer. 2061 01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:09,880 You know, I'm a rock and roll piano player. 2062 01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:11,840 It's a fantasy. It's a delusion. 2063 01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:13,300 Let's call it what it is. 2064 01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:16,640 The album has some amazing moments. 2065 01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:18,560 I mean, this is from "Innamorato." 2066 01:45:38,830 --> 01:45:40,910 There's an inherent lyric in that, which is... 2067 01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:43,370 ..."You are my heart's desire." 2068 01:45:52,630 --> 01:45:53,970 And I keep repeating it. 2069 01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:57,970 It's an obsession. 2070 01:46:00,850 --> 01:46:02,520 One, two, three, four. 2071 01:46:09,780 --> 01:46:12,280 This album stands out in many ways. 2072 01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:13,650 It was certainly number one 2073 01:46:13,650 --> 01:46:16,360 on the classical Billboard charts for 18 weeks. 2074 01:46:16,370 --> 01:46:18,490 I think it's one of the most successful 2075 01:46:18,490 --> 01:46:20,740 classical albums of all time as well. 2076 01:46:27,250 --> 01:46:30,960 I knew I was going to get savaged by the classical critics, 2077 01:46:31,460 --> 01:46:34,760 but I was trying to convey what I loved, 2078 01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:37,510 which is the romantic piano music. 2079 01:46:48,190 --> 01:46:51,820 I think, in a way, that album for me is an homage to Dad. 2080 01:46:52,530 --> 01:46:53,980 It's an homage to our father. 2081 01:46:53,990 --> 01:46:56,910 I don't know if Bill sees it that way, but maybe it's subconscious. 2082 01:47:04,700 --> 01:47:07,290 He was still alive when I did "Fantasies & Delusions." 2083 01:47:12,840 --> 01:47:14,000 But I never heard what he, like, 2084 01:47:14,010 --> 01:47:16,470 what he thought about my piano pieces. 2085 01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:27,600 I know that my father has a lot of abandonment issues. 2086 01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:29,980 His father left when he was seven. 2087 01:47:30,610 --> 01:47:32,150 He never got over that. 2088 01:47:32,690 --> 01:47:37,320 It was a very impactful moment in his life 2089 01:47:37,320 --> 01:47:40,570 when he tracked him down, but he had to find him. 2090 01:47:40,570 --> 01:47:42,280 You know, I think it broke his heart a little bit 2091 01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:44,410 that his father didn't come to him. 2092 01:47:44,410 --> 01:47:46,500 He had to go to Vienna. 2093 01:47:51,790 --> 01:47:54,590 He was always looking for that deeper connection. 2094 01:47:55,340 --> 01:47:57,130 If anything, I think he found it more 2095 01:47:57,130 --> 01:48:00,090 through his brother, Alex, who's a conductor. 2096 01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:09,270 And I think it meant a lot 2097 01:48:09,270 --> 01:48:13,940 to be able to finally connect with that part of his family. 2098 01:48:13,940 --> 01:48:15,900 It's a shame Dad didn't become a musician. 2099 01:48:15,900 --> 01:48:17,940 I could have seen him being very happy 2100 01:48:17,940 --> 01:48:19,240 just working in a little opera house. 2101 01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:20,400 I think the same thing. 2102 01:48:20,410 --> 01:48:21,660 He used to play all the operas to me 2103 01:48:21,660 --> 01:48:23,950 on the piano before we used to go see them. 2104 01:48:23,950 --> 01:48:25,410 I know he loved music. 2105 01:48:25,410 --> 01:48:28,370 He really and truly loved music, 2106 01:48:28,370 --> 01:48:31,540 but he hated his own musicianship. 2107 01:48:31,540 --> 01:48:34,380 We had a piano in the back room, and he'd go in and he played. 2108 01:48:34,380 --> 01:48:37,210 He's probably playing a Chopin piece or a Beethoven sonata, 2109 01:48:37,800 --> 01:48:41,430 and he'd come out of the room all dark and pissed off 2110 01:48:41,430 --> 01:48:42,930 and, "Ah, I suck." 2111 01:48:43,430 --> 01:48:45,100 - To me, it sounded great. - Yeah. 2112 01:48:45,100 --> 01:48:47,930 I thought, wow, if I can play like that, I'd be so happy. 2113 01:48:47,930 --> 01:48:50,940 But he was never content with what he was playing. 2114 01:48:51,480 --> 01:48:54,100 And I, I said to myself when I was a kid, 2115 01:48:54,110 --> 01:48:55,730 I don't want to be like that. 2116 01:48:55,730 --> 01:48:58,110 I don't want to have that kind of relationship with music. 2117 01:48:58,610 --> 01:49:02,570 So I never tried to become a concert pianist. 2118 01:49:02,860 --> 01:49:05,700 I went kind of in a different direction where I was, 2119 01:49:05,700 --> 01:49:07,580 I wanted to create my own music. 2120 01:49:08,080 --> 01:49:10,660 He was very proud of you. He really was. 2121 01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:12,670 Dad was incredibly proud of Bill 2122 01:49:12,670 --> 01:49:14,500 and everything he's achieved and, uh... 2123 01:49:14,500 --> 01:49:17,210 Do you think Bill knows that his father was proud of him? 2124 01:49:19,050 --> 01:49:20,630 I don't think so, you know. 2125 01:49:23,130 --> 01:49:24,800 I've told him, but he doesn't believe me. 2126 01:49:27,930 --> 01:49:31,310 I think my dad was the missing link in a lot of things. 2127 01:49:35,440 --> 01:49:36,770 And when he passed away, 2128 01:49:36,770 --> 01:49:38,230 I kind of freaked out a little bit. 2129 01:49:38,230 --> 01:49:41,150 Wow, he's gone, and I'll never get to know him. 2130 01:49:45,070 --> 01:49:47,330 But I had no animosity towards him. 2131 01:49:47,870 --> 01:49:49,700 I just had a sense of loss. 2132 01:49:53,670 --> 01:49:57,250 And I think he wanted to say "I love you" to me, 2133 01:49:57,880 --> 01:49:59,170 but I never heard it. 2134 01:50:02,260 --> 01:50:05,800 When Howard was dying, we stood at his bedside. 2135 01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,600 And I remember Billy and Howard looking at each other, 2136 01:50:09,220 --> 01:50:12,770 and there's just a blank look on each of their faces. 2137 01:50:13,440 --> 01:50:15,480 No emotions, no anything. 2138 01:50:18,820 --> 01:50:21,820 I'm sure it made a terrible void in my brother's life, 2139 01:50:21,820 --> 01:50:24,200 and it left a hole in his heart. 2140 01:50:26,660 --> 01:50:28,280 My mom used to tell me, 2141 01:50:28,910 --> 01:50:31,370 "The quality of mercy is not strained." 2142 01:50:31,370 --> 01:50:33,710 I didn't understand it when I was little, 2143 01:50:34,290 --> 01:50:36,120 but I understood it when I was growing up. 2144 01:50:37,380 --> 01:50:39,590 So I forgave him a long time ago 2145 01:50:41,250 --> 01:50:45,090 You have to be able to forgive to heal yourself. 2146 01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:53,180 After "Fantasies & Delusions," 2147 01:50:53,180 --> 01:50:55,440 I felt like, okay, I've done it. 2148 01:50:56,560 --> 01:50:59,190 Not just with classical music, but popular music. 2149 01:51:00,020 --> 01:51:02,150 I mean, I had been performing 2150 01:51:02,150 --> 01:51:04,610 and been a rockstar for a long time. 2151 01:51:05,900 --> 01:51:08,780 And I thought, what else is there for me? 2152 01:51:12,370 --> 01:51:14,950 I was feeling that I was missing something. 2153 01:51:19,290 --> 01:51:21,250 The Daily News is reporting 2154 01:51:21,250 --> 01:51:25,300 that the singer just got engaged to his girlfriend Katie Lee. 2155 01:51:28,890 --> 01:51:31,680 In terms of long-term relationships, 2156 01:51:32,060 --> 01:51:34,680 I was gun shy about making a commitment. 2157 01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:36,600 But it was kind of fresh, 2158 01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:39,440 and I think all the rules went out the window. 2159 01:51:42,190 --> 01:51:43,940 When you fall in love, you fall. 2160 01:51:43,940 --> 01:51:46,780 It's not like you're flying. You're falling. 2161 01:51:51,030 --> 01:51:52,490 When we first got together, 2162 01:51:52,490 --> 01:51:55,620 Bill wanted to take a break from touring. 2163 01:51:55,620 --> 01:51:58,410 And so, I just took him for his word at that 2164 01:51:58,420 --> 01:51:59,870 and I thought that's what he wanted. 2165 01:52:01,630 --> 01:52:03,460 He would say a lot, like, 2166 01:52:03,460 --> 01:52:05,420 I'm just tired of being Billy Joel, 2167 01:52:05,880 --> 01:52:07,630 tired of playing these same songs. 2168 01:52:07,630 --> 01:52:10,680 And I think that that dissatisfaction 2169 01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:12,970 with the thing that he loved so much, 2170 01:52:12,970 --> 01:52:14,600 I think that was tough for him. 2171 01:52:16,430 --> 01:52:18,600 When you don't have anything new to offer, 2172 01:52:18,600 --> 01:52:20,350 you don't have anything to hide behind. 2173 01:52:21,400 --> 01:52:23,560 And I think that exposed him to the world 2174 01:52:23,570 --> 01:52:26,440 and made his difficulties more acute. 2175 01:52:27,490 --> 01:52:30,570 At that time in his life, he was drinking a lot. 2176 01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:32,910 And over the years, 2177 01:52:32,910 --> 01:52:34,950 he had sort of a series of calamities. 2178 01:52:35,620 --> 01:52:38,120 He was making a mess of it in public. 2179 01:52:38,120 --> 01:52:39,250 And when that happens, 2180 01:52:39,250 --> 01:52:41,250 the public chorus can turn on you. 2181 01:52:41,250 --> 01:52:43,250 We begin with Billy Joel's car accident 2182 01:52:43,250 --> 01:52:45,170 in Long Island, New York, just this morning. 2183 01:52:45,170 --> 01:52:46,670 The singing superstar is recovering 2184 01:52:46,670 --> 01:52:48,130 from a big scare. 2185 01:52:48,130 --> 01:52:49,760 You know, along with fame 2186 01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:52,970 comes a lot of gossip, rumors. 2187 01:52:52,970 --> 01:52:55,350 I didn't like the tabloid kind of press. 2188 01:52:55,350 --> 01:52:58,140 Him being here in one of the biggest media centers 2189 01:52:58,140 --> 01:53:00,230 in the world was difficult for him, 2190 01:53:00,980 --> 01:53:02,810 because there was a lot of scrutiny. 2191 01:53:03,650 --> 01:53:04,980 They love to capitalize 2192 01:53:04,980 --> 01:53:07,730 on the mistakes that we have all made. 2193 01:53:07,730 --> 01:53:09,780 And Billy Joel's got another smash hit, 2194 01:53:09,780 --> 01:53:11,280 but not one he wanted. 2195 01:53:11,280 --> 01:53:13,990 The singer crashed his car into a house yesterday, 2196 01:53:13,990 --> 01:53:15,450 his third wreck in two years. 2197 01:53:15,450 --> 01:53:16,740 The question this morning, obviously, 2198 01:53:16,740 --> 01:53:18,160 Eric, is: did someone put more than bread 2199 01:53:18,160 --> 01:53:20,040 in Billy Joel's jar last night? 2200 01:53:20,040 --> 01:53:21,660 For example, there's this rumor 2201 01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,040 that I have all these DUIs. 2202 01:53:24,500 --> 01:53:25,540 That never happened, 2203 01:53:25,540 --> 01:53:28,380 but people keep repeating the myth. 2204 01:53:28,380 --> 01:53:29,960 Oh, he's got so many DUIs. 2205 01:53:29,960 --> 01:53:32,680 I never had a DUI, so fuck you. 2206 01:53:34,890 --> 01:53:36,430 There was kind of a fallow period 2207 01:53:36,430 --> 01:53:38,010 where he wasn't writing and didn't have 2208 01:53:38,010 --> 01:53:39,430 much of a profile. 2209 01:53:39,430 --> 01:53:41,560 He became the butt of jokes. 2210 01:53:41,560 --> 01:53:43,440 I can drive these streets blind. 2211 01:53:43,440 --> 01:53:44,810 Watch out! 2212 01:53:44,810 --> 01:53:46,480 When I say that he was a punchline, 2213 01:53:46,480 --> 01:53:49,730 they treated him as an unserious person. 2214 01:53:49,730 --> 01:53:50,900 That was close. 2215 01:53:50,900 --> 01:53:52,320 Almost gave me a heart attack 2216 01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:53,900 ack-ack-ack-ack-ack. 2217 01:53:53,910 --> 01:53:55,280 Well, the press can be mean, 2218 01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:57,070 so having that much attention 2219 01:53:57,080 --> 01:53:58,910 paid to you is not easy. 2220 01:54:00,450 --> 01:54:03,250 It's really hard for me to talk about that time. 2221 01:54:03,830 --> 01:54:06,420 I felt like he needed to be creating, 2222 01:54:06,420 --> 01:54:09,380 he needed to be making music, performing, 2223 01:54:09,380 --> 01:54:12,420 to turn down that anxiety 2224 01:54:12,420 --> 01:54:15,340 of not having an artistic outlet. 2225 01:54:17,050 --> 01:54:20,390 And there were struggles with addiction. 2226 01:54:20,640 --> 01:54:22,980 It was really hard to navigate that 2227 01:54:22,980 --> 01:54:25,310 because I had no experience with it. 2228 01:54:26,020 --> 01:54:29,320 But he went to Betty Ford for rehab. 2229 01:54:30,320 --> 01:54:32,820 She kind of gave me an ultimatum. 2230 01:54:32,820 --> 01:54:34,740 Either you do something about your drinking, 2231 01:54:34,740 --> 01:54:37,530 or this isn't going to work out. 2232 01:54:40,410 --> 01:54:43,870 When he first got home from Betty Ford, 2233 01:54:43,870 --> 01:54:46,620 it was a really fragile time for both of us. 2234 01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:49,170 I always wondered about 2235 01:54:49,170 --> 01:54:50,920 that particular period of time with him, 2236 01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:55,050 because at that point Billy was sober. 2237 01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:57,430 I always felt that he was rediscovering 2238 01:54:57,430 --> 01:54:58,850 a different part of himself. 2239 01:54:59,430 --> 01:55:01,810 And when you rediscover a new part of yourself, 2240 01:55:01,810 --> 01:55:03,140 you change. 2241 01:55:06,100 --> 01:55:08,560 He had experienced everything. 2242 01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:11,020 He had lived this huge life. 2243 01:55:11,020 --> 01:55:16,200 But I was young and had not experienced anything. 2244 01:55:16,490 --> 01:55:18,820 So I always wanted to go out, 2245 01:55:18,820 --> 01:55:22,080 and Bill wanted to be at home. 2246 01:55:23,490 --> 01:55:24,790 At that point, 2247 01:55:24,790 --> 01:55:27,160 yeah, the relationship wasn't doing well. 2248 01:55:27,170 --> 01:55:29,540 Our own Katie Lee is going to show you-- 2249 01:55:29,540 --> 01:55:32,540 She became very career oriented, 2250 01:55:32,550 --> 01:55:33,800 and she wanted to be in the city, 2251 01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:35,670 she wanted to socialize. 2252 01:55:36,630 --> 01:55:38,010 There's a theory that she was having 2253 01:55:38,010 --> 01:55:39,510 an affair with some guy. 2254 01:55:39,510 --> 01:55:40,640 That's a bunch of bullshit. 2255 01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:43,510 We just drifted apart from each other. 2256 01:55:45,100 --> 01:55:47,680 I wanted to be doing all of the things together. 2257 01:55:47,690 --> 01:55:50,400 But I think that that's where our age came into play. 2258 01:55:52,270 --> 01:55:53,980 Also, I think that there was, maybe, 2259 01:55:53,980 --> 01:55:55,480 always a little bit of resentment 2260 01:55:55,490 --> 01:55:59,320 that I had really pushed him to go to Betty Ford. 2261 01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:02,450 With rehab, you don't go for somebody else. 2262 01:56:02,450 --> 01:56:03,910 You have to go for yourself. 2263 01:56:04,740 --> 01:56:08,210 You have to want to do it. I didn't want to do it. 2264 01:56:11,170 --> 01:56:12,960 It was hard on our relationship, 2265 01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:14,500 and in a lot of ways, 2266 01:56:14,500 --> 01:56:16,260 it was hard to recover from that. 2267 01:56:17,840 --> 01:56:19,510 I don't think either one of us wanted it 2268 01:56:19,510 --> 01:56:22,390 to not work out, but it just became obvious 2269 01:56:22,390 --> 01:56:23,810 that it wasn't working. 2270 01:56:24,220 --> 01:56:27,020 And I remember one night we had dinner, 2271 01:56:27,020 --> 01:56:29,810 and I said, Bill, I'm unhappy. 2272 01:56:30,190 --> 01:56:32,560 And he said, "Do you want to get a divorce?" 2273 01:56:32,560 --> 01:56:35,530 And I said, yeah. And he said, "Okay." 2274 01:56:36,070 --> 01:56:37,190 And that was it. 2275 01:56:40,450 --> 01:56:43,160 I was going through another divorce. 2276 01:56:43,160 --> 01:56:45,790 Three times. A three-time loser. 2277 01:56:46,540 --> 01:56:51,250 And the fear of being alone again, dying alone... 2278 01:56:52,580 --> 01:56:55,670 not having that person in my life anymore... 2279 01:56:57,010 --> 01:56:58,590 and getting old. 2280 01:57:02,300 --> 01:57:04,300 So, I was drinking again, 2281 01:57:04,300 --> 01:57:06,100 just to kind of ease +that pain. 2282 01:57:06,640 --> 01:57:09,230 So it was... Yeah, it was kind of a lost time. 2283 01:57:11,100 --> 01:57:12,690 We were having dinner one night. 2284 01:57:12,690 --> 01:57:15,060 Billy was just basically devastated. 2285 01:57:15,060 --> 01:57:16,900 Tears coming down his eyes and said, 2286 01:57:16,900 --> 01:57:19,860 "I got a half a billion dollars, and I have nobody to love." 2287 01:57:20,740 --> 01:57:23,490 And it just hurts you, tears your guts out 2288 01:57:23,490 --> 01:57:25,450 to watch somebody fall down that hole. 2289 01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:30,750 And that time period coincided 2290 01:57:30,750 --> 01:57:32,540 with working with Elton again. 2291 01:57:32,540 --> 01:57:35,540 The Billy Joel/Elton John concert was canceled. 2292 01:57:35,920 --> 01:57:38,630 Joel and John canceled their show in Detroit last night. 2293 01:57:38,630 --> 01:57:40,130 He canceled Thursday's concert. 2294 01:57:40,130 --> 01:57:42,220 Of course, everyone was worried about Billy Joel. 2295 01:57:43,720 --> 01:57:47,800 The story I remember is Elton John accusing Billy Joel of drinking too much, 2296 01:57:47,810 --> 01:57:50,140 which Billy Joel did not care for 2297 01:57:50,140 --> 01:57:51,430 when he read that. 2298 01:57:52,640 --> 01:57:54,440 Billy wasn't really open to hear about it 2299 01:57:54,440 --> 01:57:55,810 and certainly not publicly. 2300 01:57:56,440 --> 01:57:59,780 And it led to certain questions 2301 01:57:59,780 --> 01:58:02,400 about where he's going in his career. 2302 01:58:02,400 --> 01:58:04,910 I think he didn't want his demons 2303 01:58:04,910 --> 01:58:06,450 and his issues out there. 2304 01:58:06,450 --> 01:58:08,030 So that kind of pissed him off. 2305 01:58:08,950 --> 01:58:14,160 Elton had made a comment that he thought I needed real rehab. 2306 01:58:14,170 --> 01:58:16,500 He chalked it up to, "Oh, he's a drunk." 2307 01:58:16,500 --> 01:58:18,750 And that really hurt me. I said, wait a minute. 2308 01:58:18,750 --> 01:58:20,510 Don't you know me better than that? 2309 01:58:21,010 --> 01:58:23,340 And there was bad blood for a little while. 2310 01:58:25,550 --> 01:58:28,470 There was a dovetailing of things 2311 01:58:28,470 --> 01:58:30,140 that happened during that time. 2312 01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:33,310 I felt like I was clobbered. 2313 01:58:41,150 --> 01:58:44,450 So, yeah. That was rock bottom. 2314 01:58:48,700 --> 01:58:50,490 I was disillusioned 2315 01:58:50,870 --> 01:58:53,500 with what I thought it was all supposed to mean. 2316 01:58:54,370 --> 01:58:57,040 It's like all signs were pointing to me: Enough! 2317 01:58:57,540 --> 01:59:00,210 And I wrote this letter to the band: 2318 01:59:00,210 --> 01:59:01,500 I don't want to do this anymore. 2319 01:59:01,500 --> 01:59:02,960 I'm going to, I'm going to stop. 2320 01:59:18,770 --> 01:59:20,900 I think he was trying to save his own life. 2321 01:59:21,520 --> 01:59:24,990 It's hard to have control over yourself when you work that hard. 2322 01:59:25,860 --> 01:59:28,160 To survive, you need to leave that behind. 2323 01:59:31,910 --> 01:59:35,080 He had spoken about taking time off for years, 2324 01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:37,830 but this was really a goodbye. 2325 01:59:38,250 --> 01:59:40,750 He became very uncommunicative. 2326 01:59:40,750 --> 01:59:42,960 I didn't talk to him a lot during that period of time. 2327 01:59:42,960 --> 01:59:45,670 And I have to say that I was worried about him, 2328 01:59:46,130 --> 01:59:49,720 because I believed that Billy, without this outlet, 2329 01:59:50,510 --> 01:59:53,060 that he wouldn't have anything to live for. 2330 01:59:54,180 --> 01:59:57,100 And I thought that the... 2331 01:59:57,100 --> 01:59:58,640 I honestly thought that that was... 2332 01:59:58,640 --> 02:00:00,940 that the clock was ticking. 2333 02:00:22,880 --> 02:00:25,800 In the beginning 2334 02:00:27,090 --> 02:00:31,090 There was the cold and the night... 2335 02:00:31,800 --> 02:00:34,760 When I was 18, I got my first boat. 2336 02:00:35,260 --> 02:00:36,930 It was about 18 feet long. 2337 02:00:37,350 --> 02:00:40,850 Rowing it was a heart attack, and it leaked like a sieve. 2338 02:00:42,100 --> 02:00:43,480 But it was my boat. 2339 02:00:44,610 --> 02:00:47,030 Being on the water, it means a lot of things. 2340 02:00:47,030 --> 02:00:49,360 Part of it is freedom. 2341 02:00:49,360 --> 02:00:52,990 You've left the land, and you are on your own. 2342 02:00:53,990 --> 02:00:55,450 You're navigating. 2343 02:00:56,040 --> 02:00:58,540 You're controlling where you're going. 2344 02:00:58,540 --> 02:01:01,670 Too many kingdoms 2345 02:01:02,790 --> 02:01:05,290 Too many flags... 2346 02:01:05,290 --> 02:01:07,590 So you've gotta always be in control. 2347 02:01:08,090 --> 02:01:11,380 And there's something exhilarating about that. 2348 02:01:11,380 --> 02:01:15,430 So many wounds to be healed 2349 02:01:15,430 --> 02:01:18,350 Time is relentless... 2350 02:01:18,350 --> 02:01:21,100 I am in control. I am the captain of my ship, 2351 02:01:21,100 --> 02:01:23,400 against all the forces of nature. 2352 02:01:23,850 --> 02:01:25,610 And it's a, it's a strong feeling. 2353 02:01:25,610 --> 02:01:26,730 It's very powerful. 2354 02:01:26,730 --> 02:01:29,150 It's been a long time 2355 02:01:29,150 --> 02:01:33,450 And now I'm with you 2356 02:01:33,450 --> 02:01:36,950 After two thousand years... 2357 02:01:36,950 --> 02:01:39,830 It's similar to music. It's healing. 2358 02:01:42,120 --> 02:01:44,330 I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. 2359 02:01:45,380 --> 02:01:47,880 But I've grown from them. I've learned from them. 2360 02:01:49,260 --> 02:01:51,670 And even after everything I've gone through... 2361 02:01:51,670 --> 02:01:53,930 Okay, so when you get home-- 2362 02:01:53,930 --> 02:01:55,090 ...I still believe in love. 2363 02:01:55,090 --> 02:01:56,470 I still believe in relationships. 2364 02:01:57,220 --> 02:01:59,640 And it's always a big factor in my life. 2365 02:02:00,470 --> 02:02:02,600 I probably am a romantic at heart. 2366 02:02:06,400 --> 02:02:07,690 When you meet someone 2367 02:02:07,690 --> 02:02:09,770 who captures your imagination, 2368 02:02:09,780 --> 02:02:12,400 it renews, it revitalizes. 2369 02:02:19,540 --> 02:02:21,910 I remember the first time I met Alexis, 2370 02:02:21,910 --> 02:02:23,460 we went to my house, and I wanted 2371 02:02:23,460 --> 02:02:25,000 to play the piano for her. 2372 02:02:25,710 --> 02:02:27,630 It's a form of communication for me. 2373 02:02:28,420 --> 02:02:30,210 There's a scene in a movie called 2374 02:02:30,210 --> 02:02:33,380 "The Seven Year Itch" with Tom Ewell, 2375 02:02:33,380 --> 02:02:36,010 and he wants to impress Marilyn Monroe. 2376 02:02:36,510 --> 02:02:38,640 So he plays Rachmaninoff. 2377 02:02:38,640 --> 02:02:41,180 You came. I'm so glad. 2378 02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:51,020 And he's got the ascot on 2379 02:02:51,030 --> 02:02:52,610 and he's puffing on a cigarette. 2380 02:02:52,610 --> 02:02:55,530 Don't stop. Don't ever stop. 2381 02:02:55,530 --> 02:02:57,110 So I'm playing that, and she's completely 2382 02:02:57,110 --> 02:02:58,570 unimpressed with it. Totally. 2383 02:02:58,570 --> 02:03:01,120 She couldn't care less what I'm playing 2384 02:03:01,120 --> 02:03:04,540 and I'm thinking, oh, okay, this isn't working. 2385 02:03:04,540 --> 02:03:07,330 She was very unimpressed with the whole Billy Joel thing, 2386 02:03:07,330 --> 02:03:10,590 which impressed me because I thought, okay. 2387 02:03:11,300 --> 02:03:13,590 Maybe she's just here because she likes me, 2388 02:03:13,590 --> 02:03:15,090 not the Billy Joel guy. 2389 02:03:17,930 --> 02:03:21,810 We stayed in touch after I met him originally. 2390 02:03:21,810 --> 02:03:24,770 We would speak on the phone, we would exchange emails, 2391 02:03:24,770 --> 02:03:27,480 and we got to know each other really well. 2392 02:03:27,480 --> 02:03:29,690 And I felt really comfortable with him. 2393 02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:31,770 I don't know if I was open 2394 02:03:31,770 --> 02:03:34,070 to starting a new relationship. 2395 02:03:34,070 --> 02:03:35,900 I thought that wasn't going to be possible. 2396 02:03:36,450 --> 02:03:38,320 How am I going to be able to do that again? 2397 02:03:38,320 --> 02:03:40,070 I can't go through that again. 2398 02:03:40,070 --> 02:03:41,910 But all of a sudden, something happened. 2399 02:03:41,910 --> 02:03:44,580 Something popped. And I was open to it. 2400 02:03:48,040 --> 02:03:49,790 When Alexis and I got together, 2401 02:03:49,790 --> 02:03:51,130 she was still working. 2402 02:03:51,130 --> 02:03:53,250 She was in charge of a whole section 2403 02:03:53,250 --> 02:03:54,710 of a financial company, 2404 02:03:54,710 --> 02:03:56,420 and she was successful at it. 2405 02:03:56,760 --> 02:03:59,970 And I wasn't really thinking about working anymore, 2406 02:03:59,970 --> 02:04:01,930 so I was home a lot. 2407 02:04:01,930 --> 02:04:03,260 And when she got home, 2408 02:04:03,260 --> 02:04:05,560 there I was cooking and serving dinner. 2409 02:04:05,560 --> 02:04:08,810 He makes a mean salmon teriyaki. 2410 02:04:08,810 --> 02:04:10,440 He would have it marinating all day for me, 2411 02:04:10,440 --> 02:04:12,020 and have it ready with my vegetables, 2412 02:04:12,020 --> 02:04:13,480 and I would come home 2413 02:04:13,480 --> 02:04:15,610 to my salmon, my vegetables, and glass of wine. 2414 02:04:15,610 --> 02:04:16,860 So it was wonderful. 2415 02:04:27,370 --> 02:04:28,410 I hadn't really thought 2416 02:04:28,410 --> 02:04:29,620 about having children again. 2417 02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:31,670 I thought I was too old. 2418 02:04:34,590 --> 02:04:36,250 Look at you, big girl. 2419 02:04:36,260 --> 02:04:38,550 But having these little kids 2420 02:04:38,550 --> 02:04:41,550 at this time in my life is such a joy. 2421 02:04:41,550 --> 02:04:43,300 I have time to be with them. 2422 02:04:43,930 --> 02:04:46,100 I don't have to be recording. I don't have to be writing. 2423 02:04:46,100 --> 02:04:48,350 I can just hang out with my children. 2424 02:04:48,350 --> 02:04:50,100 Can you say, "I love you, Daddy"? 2425 02:04:50,100 --> 02:04:53,230 Love you, Daddy! 2426 02:04:54,270 --> 02:04:55,900 Bill's number one saying is, 2427 02:04:55,900 --> 02:04:57,150 "I'm going to be the best dad I can be, 2428 02:04:57,150 --> 02:04:58,610 because I didn't have a dad." 2429 02:04:59,030 --> 02:05:03,950 And after years of learning and personal growth, 2430 02:05:03,950 --> 02:05:07,120 my kids have the most amazing version of him. 2431 02:05:07,540 --> 02:05:08,620 They're really lucky. 2432 02:05:09,410 --> 02:05:11,040 And I wanted to make sure 2433 02:05:11,040 --> 02:05:13,460 that they got everything they needed from me. 2434 02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:16,590 So I kind of knuckled down 2435 02:05:16,590 --> 02:05:19,170 and took fatherhood very, very seriously. 2436 02:05:19,760 --> 02:05:22,380 I felt like, oh, these are things I missed. 2437 02:05:23,340 --> 02:05:25,050 I want to make sure they don't miss it. 2438 02:05:30,060 --> 02:05:31,980 I didn't know if they were going to be musical or not, 2439 02:05:31,980 --> 02:05:34,900 but there must be something to the genetic aspect of it. 2440 02:05:36,400 --> 02:05:39,190 My parents had this incredible musical ability. 2441 02:05:43,780 --> 02:05:45,660 And my brother has it. 2442 02:05:52,460 --> 02:05:54,620 My eldest daughter Alexa has it. 2443 02:05:54,630 --> 02:05:57,250 Just in a New York 2444 02:05:57,250 --> 02:06:02,010 State of mind 2445 02:06:02,010 --> 02:06:04,470 Yeah 2446 02:06:04,470 --> 02:06:06,220 Della has it. 2447 02:06:06,220 --> 02:06:08,640 Keep it to yourself it's my life 2448 02:06:09,140 --> 02:06:11,600 She can pick out melodies on a piano 2449 02:06:11,600 --> 02:06:13,850 without even knowing how to play the piano. 2450 02:06:15,520 --> 02:06:18,400 And I see it in my youngest, in Remy. 2451 02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:21,110 She's picking out melodies. She's singing. 2452 02:06:22,070 --> 02:06:23,650 It's part of the DNA. 2453 02:06:24,610 --> 02:06:25,740 It's history. 2454 02:06:27,580 --> 02:06:28,740 And it goes on. 2455 02:06:31,200 --> 02:06:32,410 In the beginning, 2456 02:06:32,410 --> 02:06:33,960 we had a couple years together 2457 02:06:33,960 --> 02:06:35,290 before we had kids, 2458 02:06:35,290 --> 02:06:38,250 and he had completely stopped doing shows. 2459 02:06:38,920 --> 02:06:40,960 We traveled everywhere. 2460 02:06:41,300 --> 02:06:43,300 We did a motorcycle trip from Maine 2461 02:06:43,300 --> 02:06:44,840 back down to Long Island. 2462 02:06:44,840 --> 02:06:46,800 We were on boats 24/7. 2463 02:06:46,800 --> 02:06:48,890 We were in Europe. We had so much fun. 2464 02:06:49,810 --> 02:06:51,600 I was pretty much retiring. 2465 02:06:51,930 --> 02:06:54,020 I just... I didn't want to do it anymore. 2466 02:06:54,020 --> 02:06:56,650 I thought that part of my life was over. 2467 02:06:57,100 --> 02:06:59,940 I think that he was enjoying 2468 02:06:59,940 --> 02:07:02,610 not going on the road and not working. 2469 02:07:03,110 --> 02:07:05,070 But then everything changed. 2470 02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:09,870 Sixty-six million Americans are bracing for impact. 2471 02:07:09,870 --> 02:07:11,490 The weather is intensifying, 2472 02:07:11,490 --> 02:07:12,990 and it's just going to get worse. 2473 02:07:13,000 --> 02:07:14,580 Oh, my God. 2474 02:07:17,420 --> 02:07:18,920 Sandy may go down 2475 02:07:18,920 --> 02:07:21,750 as one of the costliest storms in history. 2476 02:07:22,630 --> 02:07:24,380 Sandy destroyed a good amount 2477 02:07:24,380 --> 02:07:26,180 of the south shore of Long Island. 2478 02:07:26,800 --> 02:07:28,800 I was here during the storm, 2479 02:07:28,800 --> 02:07:32,220 and I saw boats being torn off moorings, 2480 02:07:32,220 --> 02:07:33,560 crashing onto the shore. 2481 02:07:33,560 --> 02:07:35,270 Houses being flooded. 2482 02:07:35,270 --> 02:07:36,560 It was scary. 2483 02:07:37,770 --> 02:07:41,070 I'm a Long Islander. And these are my roots. 2484 02:07:41,730 --> 02:07:42,940 This is my home. 2485 02:07:43,730 --> 02:07:45,990 And it was hurtful to see the damage 2486 02:07:46,450 --> 02:07:48,610 and how those lives were wrecked. 2487 02:07:50,820 --> 02:07:52,240 They were putting together a benefit concert 2488 02:07:52,240 --> 02:07:55,000 for the recovery effort, and they called me. 2489 02:07:57,710 --> 02:07:59,000 I said yes, even though 2490 02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:00,960 I wasn't really performing at the time. 2491 02:08:00,960 --> 02:08:02,500 How do you want the vocal? 2492 02:08:03,300 --> 02:08:04,960 This was something I could do. 2493 02:08:05,880 --> 02:08:07,090 I couldn't be a first responder, 2494 02:08:07,090 --> 02:08:08,840 I could be a second responder. 2495 02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:12,140 Live from Madison Square Garden, 12/12/12: 2496 02:08:12,140 --> 02:08:13,850 The Concert for Sandy Relief. 2497 02:08:14,390 --> 02:08:16,850 That was quite the hallway. Everybody was there, right? 2498 02:08:16,850 --> 02:08:21,900 I mean, McCartney, Daltrey and Townshend, Keith Richards. 2499 02:08:23,190 --> 02:08:24,690 When we did 12/12/12, 2500 02:08:24,820 --> 02:08:26,940 Billy hadn't done any shows in several years 2501 02:08:26,940 --> 02:08:29,280 and, at the time, hadn't seemed interested 2502 02:08:29,280 --> 02:08:30,410 in really doing any. 2503 02:08:30,950 --> 02:08:32,740 We got the spirit here tonight. 2504 02:08:33,240 --> 02:08:34,280 We're going to be okay. 2505 02:08:34,280 --> 02:08:35,790 We're going to get through all this. 2506 02:08:35,790 --> 02:08:37,160 We're going to be alright. 2507 02:08:37,160 --> 02:08:40,170 He came out on stage very nervous. 2508 02:08:40,870 --> 02:08:42,960 We hadn't played in a very long time. 2509 02:08:42,960 --> 02:08:44,800 And he was going to do four songs. 2510 02:08:46,260 --> 02:08:49,720 Anthony works in the grocery store 2511 02:08:49,720 --> 02:08:52,010 Savin' his pennies for someday... 2512 02:08:52,010 --> 02:08:53,850 But his voice was pure, 2513 02:08:53,850 --> 02:08:55,260 the band was great. 2514 02:08:55,260 --> 02:08:56,640 ...note on the door 2515 02:08:56,640 --> 02:08:59,930 Said, "Sonny, move out to the country" 2516 02:08:59,940 --> 02:09:02,810 Ah, but workin' too hard can give you a heart attack 2517 02:09:03,060 --> 02:09:04,270 Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack 2518 02:09:04,270 --> 02:09:06,570 You oughta know by now 2519 02:09:07,070 --> 02:09:09,900 He just came in, and his voice sounded like a million bucks. 2520 02:09:09,900 --> 02:09:11,650 He had all of this energy 2521 02:09:11,660 --> 02:09:13,910 that I think he wasn't even sure that he had. 2522 02:09:14,450 --> 02:09:17,750 And it seems such a waste of time 2523 02:09:18,580 --> 02:09:21,330 If that's what it's all about 2524 02:09:21,330 --> 02:09:24,080 Mama, if that's movin' up 2525 02:09:24,080 --> 02:09:28,300 Then I'm movin' out 2526 02:09:28,960 --> 02:09:30,420 We knew at that moment 2527 02:09:30,420 --> 02:09:33,010 that guy had everything back. 2528 02:09:33,010 --> 02:09:35,050 Like, nothing had left. 2529 02:09:35,050 --> 02:09:38,430 Sergeant O'Leary is walkin' the beat 2530 02:09:38,430 --> 02:09:41,060 At night he becomes a bartender 2531 02:09:41,060 --> 02:09:43,020 Billy gets up there and blows it away. 2532 02:09:43,020 --> 02:09:44,730 ...down on Sullivan... 2533 02:09:44,730 --> 02:09:46,980 And I'm watching television saying, oh, my God. 2534 02:09:47,150 --> 02:09:50,400 These songs are not just dead songs that are in amber. 2535 02:09:50,400 --> 02:09:51,610 These songs are alive. 2536 02:09:51,610 --> 02:09:52,820 They still come across. 2537 02:09:53,160 --> 02:09:55,870 You oughta know by now 2538 02:09:55,870 --> 02:09:59,790 You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime 2539 02:10:00,200 --> 02:10:02,960 Is that all you get with your money? 2540 02:10:03,420 --> 02:10:07,750 And if that's what you have in mind, yeah 2541 02:10:07,750 --> 02:10:10,760 If that's what you're all about 2542 02:10:10,760 --> 02:10:13,340 Good luck movin' up 2543 02:10:13,340 --> 02:10:17,600 'Cause I'm moving out 2544 02:10:29,730 --> 02:10:31,860 During the 12/12/12 concert, you know, 2545 02:10:31,860 --> 02:10:34,530 which I watched while looking at my social media feed. 2546 02:10:34,530 --> 02:10:36,280 And they were just having a ball 2547 02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:39,240 ripping on all these, like, classic rockers on stage. 2548 02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:41,040 You know, these guys look old. 2549 02:10:41,040 --> 02:10:44,000 They're over the hill. We're sick of all these songs. 2550 02:10:44,330 --> 02:10:45,830 The one person they liked... 2551 02:10:47,250 --> 02:10:48,380 ...Billy Joel. 2552 02:10:51,550 --> 02:10:53,920 You look at a lot of artists from his generation, 2553 02:10:53,920 --> 02:10:56,130 they're trying to look like they did in the 70s. 2554 02:10:56,130 --> 02:10:59,220 The songs that they wrote work better 2555 02:10:59,220 --> 02:11:01,970 if you imagine a younger person singing them, 2556 02:11:01,970 --> 02:11:03,680 and I don't think that's true of Billy Joel. 2557 02:11:03,680 --> 02:11:06,640 Some folks like to get away 2558 02:11:06,650 --> 02:11:11,440 Take a holiday from the neighborhood 2559 02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:12,900 I actually think that there's a lot of songs 2560 02:11:12,900 --> 02:11:14,940 in his catalog that make more sense 2561 02:11:14,950 --> 02:11:16,740 for him to sing as an older man. 2562 02:11:16,740 --> 02:11:18,660 They have a certain gravitas to them 2563 02:11:18,660 --> 02:11:20,700 that his age enhances. 2564 02:11:20,700 --> 02:11:23,910 But I'm taking a Greyhound 2565 02:11:23,910 --> 02:11:27,210 On the Hudson River line 2566 02:11:30,420 --> 02:11:33,550 I'm in a New York state of mind 2567 02:11:33,550 --> 02:11:36,170 For years, there were critics that didn't like him. 2568 02:11:36,170 --> 02:11:37,430 Then there were people that liked him 2569 02:11:37,430 --> 02:11:39,300 only ironically, you know, as like, 2570 02:11:39,300 --> 02:11:41,010 "Hey, Billy Joel, Long Island." 2571 02:11:41,010 --> 02:11:42,890 Suddenly, it seemed like there was an explosion 2572 02:11:42,890 --> 02:11:44,640 of unironic appreciation. 2573 02:11:44,640 --> 02:11:47,230 The songs themselves were standing the test of time. 2574 02:11:47,230 --> 02:11:48,940 He, as the guy who had written the songs, 2575 02:11:48,940 --> 02:11:51,060 was now getting not even grudging respect, 2576 02:11:51,060 --> 02:11:52,190 like actual respect. 2577 02:11:52,190 --> 02:11:55,030 People were talking about him as an American treasure 2578 02:11:55,030 --> 02:11:57,610 as opposed to a celebrity that was a punchline. 2579 02:11:57,610 --> 02:11:59,820 That was when his sort of renaissance began 2580 02:11:59,820 --> 02:12:01,530 in the world of popular music. 2581 02:12:02,620 --> 02:12:06,080 And I don't want to waste more time 2582 02:12:09,330 --> 02:12:13,460 Just in a New York state of mind 2583 02:12:30,480 --> 02:12:32,110 When I look back to that time, 2584 02:12:32,610 --> 02:12:33,860 I was very humbled. 2585 02:12:34,690 --> 02:12:36,690 And I think it made me realize 2586 02:12:36,690 --> 02:12:38,610 there's still some gas in the tank. 2587 02:12:39,570 --> 02:12:41,490 Maybe I shouldn't throw this away. 2588 02:12:46,950 --> 02:12:48,660 Good evening, New York City! 2589 02:12:49,960 --> 02:12:52,750 First night of our Madison Square Garden run here. 2590 02:12:54,500 --> 02:12:57,170 I have no idea how long this is going to go. 2591 02:12:59,630 --> 02:13:02,510 My booking agent, Dennis, came to me with the concept: 2592 02:13:02,510 --> 02:13:06,520 what about doing a residency at Madison Square Garden? 2593 02:13:07,310 --> 02:13:10,980 Seen the lights go out on Broadway 2594 02:13:13,810 --> 02:13:17,400 I saw the Empire State laid low 2595 02:13:17,400 --> 02:13:21,570 I said okay, maybe that'll last six gigs or something like that. 2596 02:13:21,570 --> 02:13:23,860 I thought it was just going to go ehh, womp, 2597 02:13:23,870 --> 02:13:25,830 and then we'd run out of ticket buyers. 2598 02:13:26,870 --> 02:13:30,750 To watch the island bridges blow 2599 02:13:31,330 --> 02:13:33,540 But the demand for tickets never dropped off. 2600 02:13:33,540 --> 02:13:36,500 They turned our power down 2601 02:13:37,590 --> 02:13:39,210 They drove us underground... 2602 02:13:39,210 --> 02:13:40,510 It got bigger and bigger and bigger. 2603 02:13:40,510 --> 02:13:47,010 But we went right on with the show 2604 02:13:49,270 --> 02:13:52,730 The first time I played the Garden was 1978. 2605 02:13:52,730 --> 02:13:54,690 And now, almost 40 years later, 2606 02:13:54,690 --> 02:13:56,650 it felt like I had come full circle. 2607 02:13:57,270 --> 02:14:00,570 I've seen the lights go out on Broadway 2608 02:14:01,110 --> 02:14:04,740 And I'm playing with these guys who I've been with for years and years. 2609 02:14:05,320 --> 02:14:07,910 They really are my extended family. 2610 02:14:08,740 --> 02:14:11,790 And we were like the house band at Madison Square Garden. 2611 02:14:12,290 --> 02:14:15,210 Maybe the best-known venue in the world for rock and roll. 2612 02:14:15,580 --> 02:14:16,960 This is a dream come true. 2613 02:14:18,050 --> 02:14:20,460 ...on 42nd Street 2614 02:14:22,840 --> 02:14:24,840 New generations of people 2615 02:14:24,840 --> 02:14:26,890 were the ones filling out the audience. 2616 02:14:26,890 --> 02:14:28,470 I was seeing that every night. 2617 02:14:28,470 --> 02:14:30,430 And they were making a lot of noise. 2618 02:14:31,350 --> 02:14:33,180 They love to sing his songs. 2619 02:14:33,190 --> 02:14:34,270 And that's what it's all about, 2620 02:14:34,270 --> 02:14:36,480 is that collective experience of people coming together. 2621 02:14:42,110 --> 02:14:46,160 Billy Joel is unmistakably New York. 2622 02:14:46,910 --> 02:14:50,120 I've seen the lights go out on Broadway... 2623 02:14:50,120 --> 02:14:53,200 So how come if this guy is unmistakably 2624 02:14:53,210 --> 02:14:55,460 from one pinpoint on the planet, 2625 02:14:55,460 --> 02:14:58,380 why do we feel that he belongs to all of us? 2626 02:14:59,290 --> 02:15:01,300 He was born to do this. 2627 02:15:01,300 --> 02:15:04,220 He's so good, I don't even know if he knows how good he is. 2628 02:15:05,010 --> 02:15:07,340 And as big as he is, 2629 02:15:07,340 --> 02:15:11,140 he comes off as an everyday, around-the-way guy. 2630 02:15:11,890 --> 02:15:14,480 He's like us. He sings from that point of view. 2631 02:15:14,480 --> 02:15:16,100 You feel that truth. 2632 02:15:16,100 --> 02:15:18,520 You feel that honesty. Powerful. 2633 02:15:18,520 --> 02:15:20,110 Long Island loves Billy Joel. 2634 02:15:20,110 --> 02:15:23,650 This is my 123rd Billy Joel show. 2635 02:15:23,650 --> 02:15:26,400 His music has become a part of our everyday lives. 2636 02:15:26,400 --> 02:15:29,990 I want to see Billy Joel every month at Madison Square Garden. 2637 02:15:29,990 --> 02:15:32,580 They say he's the soundtrack of our lives, and it's true. 2638 02:15:32,580 --> 02:15:36,120 I saw him play at Yankee Stadium in 1990, 2639 02:15:36,120 --> 02:15:37,790 and it blew my lights off. 2640 02:15:37,790 --> 02:15:39,290 His music just rocks. 2641 02:15:39,290 --> 02:15:43,170 There are not many who remember 2642 02:15:43,170 --> 02:15:45,880 Tonight, we're going to commemorate 2643 02:15:45,880 --> 02:15:49,220 the 100th consecutive sellout 2644 02:15:49,220 --> 02:15:52,680 of the Madison Square Garden residency. 2645 02:15:53,270 --> 02:15:56,140 ...to tell the world about 2646 02:15:56,890 --> 02:16:00,190 The way the lights went out 2647 02:16:00,770 --> 02:16:02,730 And keep the memory 2648 02:16:03,400 --> 02:16:09,240 Alive 2649 02:16:09,240 --> 02:16:11,030 It lasted for 10 years. 2650 02:16:14,330 --> 02:16:18,170 It gave me a whole new appreciation of what I did and the power of music. 2651 02:16:52,370 --> 02:16:53,820 Check how much film I got left. 2652 02:16:53,830 --> 02:16:56,080 Sorry, fellas. Hold on one second. 2653 02:16:58,540 --> 02:16:59,750 Take two. 2654 02:17:20,140 --> 02:17:23,560 It's nine o'clock on a Saturday 2655 02:17:25,070 --> 02:17:27,480 The regular crowd shuffles in 2656 02:17:28,360 --> 02:17:32,030 There's an old man sitting next to me 2657 02:17:32,450 --> 02:17:36,120 Making love to his tonic and gin 2658 02:17:44,500 --> 02:17:48,460 He says, "Son, can you play me a memory? 2659 02:17:48,840 --> 02:17:51,970 "I'm not really sure how it goes 2660 02:17:52,510 --> 02:17:54,390 "But it's sad and it's sweet 2661 02:17:54,390 --> 02:17:56,680 "And I knew it complete 2662 02:17:56,680 --> 02:18:00,430 When I wore a younger man's clothes" 2663 02:18:00,430 --> 02:18:04,560 Oh, la da da didi da 2664 02:18:05,900 --> 02:18:11,860 La da didi da da dum 2665 02:18:12,860 --> 02:18:15,530 I don't know what I would've been had I not been a musician. 2666 02:18:16,240 --> 02:18:18,540 I don't know where I would've been in this life 2667 02:18:18,870 --> 02:18:21,120 had it not been for the piano. 2668 02:18:21,120 --> 02:18:22,870 And he's quick with a joke 2669 02:18:22,870 --> 02:18:25,120 Or to light up your smoke 2670 02:18:25,130 --> 02:18:29,090 But there's someplace that he'd rather be 2671 02:18:29,090 --> 02:18:33,010 He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me" 2672 02:18:33,010 --> 02:18:35,760 As the smile ran away from his face... 2673 02:18:35,760 --> 02:18:38,800 We're now 50 years into Billy Joel's music 2674 02:18:38,810 --> 02:18:41,060 being a huge part of American culture. 2675 02:18:43,230 --> 02:18:46,100 Why are these songs still speaking to people? 2676 02:18:46,730 --> 02:18:48,690 Don't take any shit from anybody. 2677 02:18:48,690 --> 02:18:51,110 He is this guy who by any measure 2678 02:18:51,110 --> 02:18:53,650 has achieved all of the dreams 2679 02:18:53,650 --> 02:18:55,200 that any singer/songwriter would want. 2680 02:18:55,200 --> 02:18:56,950 A dream of mine. 2681 02:18:57,990 --> 02:19:01,200 And yet, the overriding theme of his songs 2682 02:19:01,200 --> 02:19:04,410 is sort of this, like, existential dissatisfaction. 2683 02:19:04,910 --> 02:19:08,630 Well, we're all in the mood for a melody... 2684 02:19:08,630 --> 02:19:10,590 There's something at his core 2685 02:19:10,590 --> 02:19:12,630 that's still searching for something. 2686 02:19:12,630 --> 02:19:15,630 And that's the human condition. 2687 02:19:15,630 --> 02:19:16,930 So, to me, 2688 02:19:16,930 --> 02:19:18,550 I think that's why people connect with him, 2689 02:19:18,550 --> 02:19:20,300 still, after all this time. 2690 02:19:20,310 --> 02:19:23,270 Paul is the real estate novelist 2691 02:19:24,140 --> 02:19:27,060 Who never had time for a wife... 2692 02:19:29,060 --> 02:19:34,240 You can hear all of the complexities of his life in those songs. 2693 02:19:34,740 --> 02:19:36,280 You know, I think the songs are 2694 02:19:36,280 --> 02:19:38,530 the best expression of Billy. 2695 02:19:38,910 --> 02:19:40,660 And in Billy's case, I think 2696 02:19:40,660 --> 02:19:42,700 that's where he wanted things to end up. 2697 02:19:45,750 --> 02:19:49,920 And the piano, it sounds like a carnival... 2698 02:19:50,290 --> 02:19:52,960 The main thing that he would always say to me is, 2699 02:19:52,960 --> 02:19:55,340 "If you do what you love then you'll love what you do." 2700 02:19:56,220 --> 02:19:58,510 And that that's really the secret to life. 2701 02:19:58,930 --> 02:20:01,350 And I think for him, through all the sadness 2702 02:20:01,350 --> 02:20:04,140 and all the struggles that he went through, 2703 02:20:04,140 --> 02:20:06,310 he was still doing what he loved. 2704 02:20:06,310 --> 02:20:08,230 Are you not entertained? 2705 02:20:08,940 --> 02:20:12,650 And that's really what kept him going and kept the music coming. 2706 02:20:14,940 --> 02:20:18,450 Sing us a song you're the piano man... 2707 02:20:18,450 --> 02:20:19,950 I think music saved my life. 2708 02:20:19,950 --> 02:20:22,030 ...song tonight 2709 02:20:22,030 --> 02:20:24,740 Well, we're all in the mood for a... 2710 02:20:24,740 --> 02:20:26,660 It gave me a reason to live. 2711 02:20:27,040 --> 02:20:30,130 And you've got us feelin' alright 2712 02:21:04,330 --> 02:21:06,240 My hope was that my music would continue 2713 02:21:06,240 --> 02:21:07,450 to resonate. 2714 02:21:11,040 --> 02:21:12,290 And I'm glad it has. 2715 02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:16,090 There'll be a part of me that goes on. 2716 02:21:18,090 --> 02:21:19,380 You created something. 2717 02:21:19,920 --> 02:21:21,930 You made a mark on your time. 2718 02:21:23,760 --> 02:21:25,680 I don't know why that's so important to me. 2719 02:21:27,020 --> 02:21:28,390 It just is. 2720 02:21:32,900 --> 02:21:34,730 But I'm not finished. 2721 02:21:35,230 --> 02:21:37,070 I'm as lost as everybody else. 2722 02:21:38,110 --> 02:21:40,240 I'm still looking. I'm still searching. 2723 02:21:42,610 --> 02:21:44,570 I may not ever figure it all out, 2724 02:21:45,370 --> 02:21:46,450 but I'm trying. 2725 02:22:07,640 --> 02:22:10,970 Slow down you crazy child 2726 02:22:10,980 --> 02:22:14,310 You're so ambitious for a juvenile 2727 02:22:14,310 --> 02:22:16,310 But then if you're so smart 2728 02:22:16,310 --> 02:22:19,730 Tell me why are you still so afraid? 2729 02:22:20,150 --> 02:22:21,740 Mm 2730 02:22:23,110 --> 02:22:25,700 Where's the fire what's the hurry about? 2731 02:22:25,700 --> 02:22:29,490 You'd better cool it off before you burn it out 2732 02:22:29,490 --> 02:22:31,410 You've got so much to do 2733 02:22:31,410 --> 02:22:35,120 And only so many hours in a day 2734 02:22:35,120 --> 02:22:38,000 Hey 2735 02:22:38,000 --> 02:22:40,920 But you know that when the truth is told 2736 02:22:40,920 --> 02:22:42,760 That you can get what you want 2737 02:22:42,760 --> 02:22:44,630 Or you can just get old 2738 02:22:44,630 --> 02:22:46,550 You're gonna kick off 2739 02:22:46,550 --> 02:22:50,560 Before you even get halfway through 2740 02:22:50,560 --> 02:22:54,440 Ooh, when will you realize 2741 02:22:55,270 --> 02:22:58,190 Vienna waits for you? 2742 02:23:01,280 --> 02:23:04,030 Slow down you're doin' fine 2743 02:23:04,030 --> 02:23:06,570 You can't be everything you wanna be 2744 02:23:06,570 --> 02:23:08,070 Before your time 2745 02:23:08,070 --> 02:23:10,080 Although it's so romantic 2746 02:23:10,080 --> 02:23:13,450 On the borderline tonight 2747 02:23:13,960 --> 02:23:15,460 Tonight 2748 02:23:16,790 --> 02:23:19,420 Too bad but it's the life you lead 2749 02:23:19,420 --> 02:23:21,340 You're so ahead of yourself 2750 02:23:21,340 --> 02:23:23,210 That you forgot what you need 2751 02:23:23,210 --> 02:23:25,130 Though you can see when you're wrong 2752 02:23:25,130 --> 02:23:28,390 You know you can't always see when you're right 2753 02:23:29,100 --> 02:23:31,600 You're right 2754 02:23:31,600 --> 02:23:35,060 You've got your passion you've got your pride 2755 02:23:35,060 --> 02:23:38,650 But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? 2756 02:23:39,860 --> 02:23:41,480 Dream on but don't imagine 2757 02:23:41,480 --> 02:23:43,940 They'll all come true 2758 02:23:44,440 --> 02:23:45,990 Ooh 2759 02:23:46,110 --> 02:23:48,820 When will you realize 2760 02:23:49,160 --> 02:23:52,870 Vienna waits for you? 2761 02:23:54,950 --> 02:23:58,000 And you know that when the truth is told 2762 02:23:58,000 --> 02:23:59,830 That you can get what you want 2763 02:24:00,130 --> 02:24:01,790 Or you could just get old 2764 02:24:02,170 --> 02:24:03,630 You're gonna kick off 2765 02:24:03,630 --> 02:24:07,670 Before you even get halfway through 2766 02:24:07,680 --> 02:24:09,300 Ooh 2767 02:24:09,300 --> 02:24:11,850 Why don't you realize 2768 02:24:12,390 --> 02:24:15,270 Vienna waits for you? 2769 02:24:16,890 --> 02:24:19,440 When will you realize 2770 02:24:20,230 --> 02:24:23,980 Vienna waits for you? 2770 02:24:24,305 --> 02:25:24,447 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=-