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
Twenty-two years into the slowest piece of music in the world, a significant musical development has taken place - a slight chord change. The 639-year organ piece by experimental composer and philosopher John Cage has added a single tone to the chord in the church where it is being continuously played in the German town of Halberstadt. The six-note chord, played in the Burchardi Church since February 2022, has now evolved into a seven-note one with the addition of a pipe playing a D note set to
so i changed the melody. anthony works in the grocery store i wrote a whole new song. so in a way, it was a motivator to write a completely new song. and when you talk about the ones that aren t that good, i m struck by how when you talk about captain jack. you say, well, it s only got two chords. and i don t understand, what do you mean when you say, for a layman, what does that mean? it gets boring. captain jack, you know, after having done it for 30 or 40 years, i ve demoted him to private jack. it s two chords. and then it s just saturday night and you re still hanging around tired of living in your one-horse town thank god there s a chord change.
and then it s just saturday night thank goodness there s a chord change. when you wrote only the good die young you thought of it as a reggae song. yes, i did. i heard it as my drummer, again, threw his
always wants to keep it fresh for the audience, a lot of these songs he s got to do mandy every night and i write the songs every night. but for him, i d love a chord change here, change the rhythm here. i don t know if the audience is aware. keeps it fresh for you guys. and for him. one way manilow is keeping it fresh? jigsaw stuff. working in new number that plays on tiktok fame. dancing in the aisles wouldn t be a vegas show or barry manilow one without a little a lot of kitsch. want to show you my favorite thing. i mean, you can t top it. no. haven t even that. would you like the towel? or a boua?