Greatest of All Time!Piano Man
Billy Joel's breakthrough single came out of a six-month residency playing under a fake name at a Los Angeles piano bar, and the cast of regulars in the lyric is reporting, not invention.
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Billy Joel
Long Island-born singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist, one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. "This Night," from 1983's An Innocent Man, sets an original lyric to the melody of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 ("Pathetique") -- close enough to the source that Beethoven is credited as a co-writer on the album sleeve.
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Greatest of All Time!This Night
Billy Joel set an original doo-wop lyric to the melody of Beethoven's 'Pathetique' sonata -- and gave the composer an actual co-writing credit on the sleeve of An Innocent Man.
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