Every snot-nosed wannabe music snob who talks about how music used to be driven by "passion" and "the artist" needs to listen to this song on loop for a few hours. The music industry was all sizzle and no steak then as now.
He did stay in line ...like a sheep. Or no dinaro $$$ No different than the casting couch. I sometimes wonder if his hit he wrote for Princess Dianna was authentic or not. Did he sell his soul to Lucifer? Looking like maybe.
Semi-quoting Neil Diamond, Billy Joel said that his problem is that “I haven’t forgiven myself for not being Beethoven.”I, for one, forgive him. But I’ll never forgive myself for not being Billy Joel.