Billy Joel

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -4 The opening song on Billy Joel’s Piano Man album was called Travelin’ Prayer. This is a particularly interesting song musically because it begins with a snare drum and piano and slowly builds with a new musical instrument being added from verse to verse. I […]

So yesterday I posted my first Doors hit “Riders on the Storm”. Today’s song, “Goodnight Siagon” by Billy Joel mentions the Doors in its lyric: “We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes and it was dark so dark at night.” Another song about the terrible human cost of the Vietnam war.

This song seems strangely appropriate to finish off this week given the incredible scenes we experienced last week with the storming of the US Capitol building by Trump insurrectionists. We are certainly living in history making times but as Billy Joel says “we didn’t start the fire, but we’re trying to fight it” with pretty

A very pretty and very wise song by Billy Joel. Sadly the sound quality of the video is a little poor.

“A bottle of red, a bottle of white, all depends upon your appetite”. As I have said in other posts I like to listen to the lyrics of a song. This three part song by Billy Joel tell the story of Brenda and Eddie as he imagines telling their story to a long-lost friend in

OK so yesterday I said we were required to write about two songs in our high school English assignment. The second song I chose (a 70s classic) was Piano Man on account of the clever line: “They’re sharing a drink they called loneliness, but it is better than drinking alone” I guess this is a