broadway i saw the empire state lay low life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs left there long ago to tell the world about the way the light went out to keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason we can tap into that as musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing this series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people we started thinking about whom we should try to get and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dali lama. and i come back to the idea of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a rockstar for five decades. today he keeps up his nearly ten-yearlong residency at madison square garden playing the piano and belting out the lyrics that so many fans adore. he s sold more than 150 million reco
Sell. but to me the most pointed part of that story and there s a great documentary about this, is the last years of his life he goes back to germany because i suppose it must have been at some level home for him. and then your father does the same thing. he goes back to vienna. bill b bi billy was just 7 years old when his father left the family. the two were out of touch for a decade and a half. and i went to europe and went to find my father. he thought i might have died in vietnam. he didn t know anything about me. he didn t know you were a big rock star? i wasn t a big rock star. i was just starting out. i had finished my first album when i went to europe. so i found out all this stuff about my family i didn t know just by going to vienna. i found out i had a half property. wow. is the song vienna in some