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Hayes, VA New Rock and Roll to ME
This is an extended memory which begins with "Glass Houses" [around '85] and ends at the Hampton Coliseum [~'87]. I was about 12-13 and most of my...
Read Memory Brooklyn, NY Billy Joel, The Stranger & Me
1977 was a great year for me. I turned 18, the Yankees won the World Series (I attended the game with my father when Reggie Jackson hit 3 homers, all on the...
Read Memory Canada My first experience with rock n'...
From a child to a teen! My motto song "The Stanger" No one knew me, but that song did, and the rest of the album help me understand adolesance. My...
Read Memory Monaca, PA I'm A Zanzi-Barbar ian
Me and some of my closest friends totally took the greatest roadtrip from PA to FLO-RIDA last year. And I had my Billy Joel Greatest Hits collection or...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Only Billy Is Allowed To Sing...
My god. This song is a true work of art. Bold lyrics and depending on who raised you: offensive. I always felt this song was something synonymous with Billy...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Ya Ga Ta Be A Beeeeg Shot!!!
OH man! First off: I love this song haha. Second off, my English teacher does too. He would freakin sing this song EVERY DAY!! He would sing it. He would hum...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Hmmm, Did I Write This Song?
I love this song sooo much! But I must also sound like a broken record because I love 99.9% of Billy Joel's songs. But I think everyone of his fans can...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Oh Wow...
This happens to be one of my favorite songs and I'm really not sure why. It's a song that tells a story and I generally enjoy songs like that. There are...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Friend From Allentown
I always knew Allentown was one of those historical songs with historical lyrics and I never really took the time to actually research Allentown and find out...
Read Memory Monaca, PA HA-HA-HA!
Wow! I performed this whole comedic routine to "Tell Her About It." There was all this elaborate and ridiculous choreography, but it turned out...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Billy Joel & My Car
I used to have this '91 Camaro. Well, then again, I still have the Camaro--it just sits in my garage and collects dust. It's literally rotting away, but...
Read Memory Los Angeles, CA The PRESSURE of 'Get It Right...
So there i was in Mr. Anderson's Writing class in 7th grade. The assignment was to write about some thing, some one or some event, song or film that had a...
Read Memory Monaca, PA A Long, Strange Christmas
Normally on Christmas day you would figure on listening to Christmas carols. Jingle Bells. Frosty the Snowman. That sort of stuff. I'll never forget my...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Keeping MY Faith
I remember this song because I have a friend coincidentally named, Faith. And she loves Billy Joel just as much as I do. And knowing this, I dedicated...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Uptown...Boy ?
SO. I did take dance lessons. Like every crazed Billy Joel fan should. (hmmm) Anyway, I took classes in ballet and jazz--and there were normall opening...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Pressured Into a Lack of Sleep
Call me crazy. Or just plain ridiculous. But there was just something so terrifying about the music video for "Pressure." My god, the dreams I...
Read Memory Monaca, PA She's One Of The Best Memories
This girl I met--her name was Liz. We went to this spot all the time down at what we called "Flag Park" because of the numerous flags that were...
Read Memory Philadelphia, PA Doing What's Good For Me
I was six years old, sitting on my living room sofa. The television was on and turned to VH1, a channel that used to play music videos non-stop. I remember...
Read Memory Monaca, PA Not Dyin' Young
I'll never forget when this woman approached me in an aisle at Wal-Mart. I was listening to my CD player. I was listening to "Only The Good Die...
Read Memory Massachusetts Sitting on the hood of a car on...
I was just out of high school and without any direction in the late '70s. I can clearly remember sitting in my boyfriend'scar by the beach shortly before the...
Read Memory Smyrna, TN My Meeting With The Stranger
In 1977 my life was changing fast. I was a 15-y/o freshman at my local High School, and was struggling to find my identity while at the same time watching my...
Read Memory Allentown, PA As a young listener
When I was little, I remember listening to this song so much that I was getting used to the melody and knew some of the words. I'd was in the car with my...
Read Memory Orlando, FL music heals (-:
Growing up, my father, Alex, loved Billy Joel. Dad was an accomplished pianist and was always playing Billy's music on the piano. We commuted back and forth...
Read Memory Flushing, NY Beautiful Melody to My Ears
When I was 14, I had only started to discover "good music".As a child, I always liked Oldies Music and Classic Rock. I had my radio on the local...
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