Billy Joel, an excellent pianist, became an exrodinary success due to his sensational and upbeat tempo. "They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone." A simple but yet meaningful quote uttered by a great man, music geniuse and much more. The man who said this was Billy Joel; the quote was first heard in one of his most famouse songs "Piano Man"
Born on the ninth
of May 1949 in Bronx, New York he shortly moved to Levittown in Long Island New York, and grew up in a small suburban houseing development.(sing365.com 3) By the age of fourteen Billy's parents were divorced and he had to struggle to help his now single-working parent of a mother.(pg 718 1) But his real intreste in music was sparked when his grand father introduced him to classical music at the young age of four. And has developed a keen intrigueing career
to it since. Some of his inspirations that prvoked him to take his intreste to the next level were Ray Charles, The Betales, Otis......

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