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
Spring harbor. 73 would have been piano man. 74 was street life. turp styles 76. glass houses is 80. 1980. nylon curtain is 82. when you look back on it this is seven years where you re producing crazily successful album after album, hit single after hit single. did it feel like it at the time? i didn t realize until afterwards, but i felt like by the time i got to turnstiles whereby i was writing much better material, i had matured as a writer. not that i was on a hot streak but learning how to do it, and i think i got it. didn t feel particularly gifted or like on a super streak.