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| Billy Joel – This Night Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The melody in the chorus ("This night you're mine, it's only you and I ...") is a melody from either Beethoven's 4th or 6th. |
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| Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Given the lyrics and repeating piano phrases, I think he was pretty depressed when he wrote it about being unhappy living a monotonous life in L.A. at the time. |
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| Billy Joel – Allentown Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It was written when they played in Allentown in 1982 after the "Rust Belt" of the northeast U.S. went to hell. |
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| Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think Billy had some friends who were in Vietnam and the vets weren't welcomed back, and they wanted him to write a song about it but he wouldn't because he wasn't there, so he said the lyrics are not verbatim but pretty close to the narrative they told him about what it was like.
It's pretty similar to All Quiet on the Western Front. |
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| Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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In a couple interviews I've heard he said he was sitting in an Italian Restaurant on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, and the waiter came up and asked if he wanted a bottle of white or red. |
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