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Apple Valley, CA Many
We were rocking in New Year's Eve with Cheap Trick in San Bernardino. CA at the Swing at the Orange Show Fair Grounds! We went every year until a plane...
Read Memory Grand Prairie, TX I felt Kicked in the Teeth after...
First at this time in my life at the age of either 12 or 13 I was into KISS a lot and some other bands(but I was just being turned onto other bands at this...
Read Memory Ballwin, MO People Think I'm Crazy
I have a memory of this song that comes back every single time I hear it. 1978, Joliet Illinois. August I think. I awoke to loud banging and shouting on my...
Read Memory Lake Zurich, IL A Simple Twist of Fate
It was the end of the Rolling Thunder Review. Most of the players had left the tour. Rob Stoner was still with him,and the girls and David Mansfield too.The...
Read Memory Houston, TX My 2nd Concert
Saw Boston live in '78 while in way upstate New York. It was a great show...great. Although it wasn't my best because I probably saw hundreds of shows afte...
Read Concert Review Houston, TX I Lied...I Said I Was There...
It's the late 70s. My older brother and sister left home and went off to Gator land...the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. I was the youngest...
Read Concert Review Santa Cruz, CA Wonderful Tonight
Dumb 16-year-old kid, a long way from home for the first time in his life, goes to a summer camp in North Carolina just to escape the stultifying horror of...
Read Memory Chantilly, VA baseball
boys are back in town is one of the best baseball songshttp://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/10/062025.php
Read Memory Brookline, MA Winter Camping
To achieve our 'Winter Survival' badge, my girl scout troop spent a night camping in the woods behind my grandparents house. Our scout leaders wisely chose...
Read Memory Germany Freaks in Greece
We few 18 to 20 yo German guys bought that old 1966 Red Coss VW Tpye 2in 1978 to use it as a "freaky" car for a big and long vacation to Greece....
Read Memory Unknown friends
There is no song on the Stranger that does not speak to my life. The songs were all true as a junior in high school and they are still true now. Everybody...
Read Memory Australia My first Billy Joel Concert
My cousin and I had camped ouside the Forum overnight to be first in line when the box office opened. It was a cold night of delerium and songs and coffee...
Read Memory Italy Flu
Ten years old, in bed with flu. A little radio kept me company and one day they played this song. It was like love at first sight, I immediately loved voice...
Read Memory Miami, FL My mom passing
I was 14 when the album came out. My mom used to play it all the time. Just from listening to it all the time, I was hooked. Her favorite song was,...
Read Memory United Kingdom Putting Billy in the picture
Everybody has a dream, and in 1977 mine was to work in the music industry. A year later, I found myself working in the press office at one of London's...
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 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 Jennings, LA Boyfriend Troubles
WELL THIS SONG WAS PLAYING WHEN I CONFRONTED THE BOY OF MY DREAMS ASKING HIM HOW HE REALLY FELT ABOUT ME AND I LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID WOULD YOU JUST LISTEN...
Read Memory Sacramento, CA Riding with the Boys
I can remember those Saturday nights, riding in the mustang of a friend, looking for girls, adding our pennies together for gas. Singing Only the Good Die...
Read Memory Northumberland, PA Not Only the Good...The Best!
I was about 9 years old when I heard "Only The Good Die Young" From then on, I was hooked! I love his diversity in styles, etc. He's the best...
Read Memory Canada My 1st Billy Joel Memory
It was Christmas 1978 in Halifax, NS and I was seven years old. My older brother got The Stranger album as a present and I remember him going through the...
Read Memory Jennings, LA Movin Out
WELL TO START OFF MY MEMORY I WAS AROUND 16 WHEN I FIRST HEARD BILLY JOEL AND THIS WAS FOR MY SWEET SIXTEEN BIRTHDAY PARTY. WE WERE HAVING A POOL PARTY AND A...
Read Memory Eagle Point, OR The Stranger
When and where I first heard Billy Joel, The Stranger is what started me listening to Billy Joel. From that moment in time of my life, I truly started...
Read Memory Italy You and me and the night skyline
I just can't help going back to the summer of 1978, whenever I hear this masterpiece of Billy's. It's just my girl and me and the night skyline of Genoa in...
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