there s an element of alchemy in making music. almost a sorcery or a magic that, i don t necessarily understand, but i know that it moves me. i seen the lights go out on broadway i saw the empire state laid low and life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs and left there long ago to tell the world about the way the lights went out and keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason, we can tap into that, musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing a 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 dalai lama. and i kept coming back to the idea, of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is that i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a
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
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 when i met him. i was just starting out. i had just, finished my first album, when i went to europe. and so i found out all this stuff about my family that i didn t know, just by, you know, going to vienna. i found i had a half-brother, alexander joel. is the song vienna in some way a metaphor for that? slow down, you crazy child you re so ambitious for a juvenile but then, if you re so smart, tell me why you re still so afraid well, let s see. slow down, you crazy child. that could have been me. you re so ambitious for a
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
Berlin in the late eighty s dr martin and danielle an artist from the us where the dream couple of a new subculture. they loved acid house electronic sound from chicago that dr martin played in a club called the durbin or. pete. dance themselves into a trance to the pulsing beats and flashing strobes. drum machines and bass synthesizers which were small lightweight and affordable electronic instruments made the new sound possible. to small machines pretty much caused a revolution because we thought hey you can record a cassette at home in your bedroom to start off with and it s fine that was possible. when the techno also propagated that everyone was a cool in comparison to before when it was always about the big rock star so then