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
Lester piano, which is not a very good pipiano and i was taking lessons. to what end i didn t know. when you look at people have a genes and genes for musical talent. your daughter is now an accomplished performer. alexa, yes. or was it the hard work of all those those years of the piano and later with the bands? i think it s a combination of the two. i think there must be something genetic which is inherent to be musical. you don t just pick up a guitar and go banging and you re an instant star. there s a lot of work involved. but there s also the background. i grew up hearing all kinds of music. i was exposed to classical music at a young age, broadway shows, folk music. what was the first tune that you ever played? the first tune i ever