Yea and Uptown Girl was written for Christie Brinkley, swing and a miss, strike 2...... did you know that the waitress that is mentioned in Piano Man is Billy's first wife?
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Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy -...
@eaglesfan81
Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy - who made her his manager he thought to protect him. What's not clear to me is if she actually defrauded him or was just a bad manager. By the time Billy was 40 years old, he found his finances in shambles, and subsequently fired and divorced her. I never heard that she was the waitress in Piano Man before.
Yea and Uptown Girl was written for Christie Brinkley, swing and a miss, strike 2...... did you know that the waitress that is mentioned in Piano Man is Billy's first wife?
@eaglesfan81 Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy -...
@eaglesfan81 Uptown girl was written for Christie Brinkley, but Just the Way You Are was written for his first wife (Elizabeth) who was also his manager. The way I heard the story (I grew up in the town next to his home town of Hicksville, NY), he formed a band upon returning to NY (Long Island) from San Francisco, just before his break through Piano Man album where the guitar players girlfriend was Elizabeth. Elizabeth talked the highly emotional Billy off the ledge several times, resulting in her break up with the guitar player and relationship with Billy - who made her his manager he thought to protect him. What's not clear to me is if she actually defrauded him or was just a bad manager. By the time Billy was 40 years old, he found his finances in shambles, and subsequently fired and divorced her. I never heard that she was the waitress in Piano Man before.