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https://sunturtlestudios.squarespace.com • Piano Man is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. First released as a single in the US on November 2, 1973, it was included on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man. The song is sung from the point of view of a piano player at a bar, describing the patrons. Piano Man is based on Joel's real-life experiences as a lounge musician in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1973, which he had decided to pursue in an effort to escape his contracted New York City–based record company at the time, Family Productions, following the poor commercial performance of his debut album, Cold Spring Harbor (1971). • Joel's first major hit and his signature song, Piano Man peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1974.[4][5] Following Joel's breakthrough as a popular musician with the release of The Stranger, it became one of his most well-known songs. • In 2013, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[6] In 2015, the Library of Congress selected Piano Man for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its cultural, historic, or artistic significance .[7] • • Piano Man • Duration: 30 seconds.0:30 • A sample of Billy Joel's Piano Man from Piano Man • Problems playing this file? See media help. • Overview • Song background • Piano Man is a fictionalized retelling of Joel's own experience as a piano-lounge singer for six months in 1972–73 at the now defunct Executive Room bar in the Wilshire district of Los Angeles.[8] In a talk on Inside the Actors Studio, Joel said that he had to get away from New York due to a conflict with his then recording company and hence lived in Los Angeles for three years with his first wife. Since he needed work to pay the bills, but could not use his common name, he worked at the Executive Room bar as a piano player using the name Bill Martin (Joel's full name is William Martin Joel).[9] • Joel has stated that all of the characters depicted in the song were based on real people.[10] Joel had moved from New York to L.A. to record his first album, Cold Spring Harbor, which was marred by a mastering error by the album's producers at Family Productions, the first label that signed Joel. After this bad experience, Joel wanted to leave his contract with Family Productions for Columbia Records, but the contract that he had signed made this very difficult. So Joel stated that he was hiding out at the bar while lawyers at Columbia Records tried to get him out of his first record deal.[11] • Content • The verses of the song are sung from the point of view of a bar piano player who focuses mainly on the regular crowd that shuffles into the bar at nine o'clock on a Saturday: an old man, John the bartender, the waitress, businessmen, and bar regulars like real estate novelist Paul and naval serviceman Davy. Most of these characters have broken or unfulfilled dreams, and the pianist's job is to help them forget about life for a while , as the lyrics state. The pianist makes money when the patrons sit at the bar, and put bread in my jar, and say, 'Man, what are you doin' here?' The chorus, in bar-room sing-along style, comes from the bar patrons themselves, who say, Sing us a song, / You're the piano man; / Sing us a song tonight. / Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, / And you've got us feeling all right. As for the lyrics, Joel has observed that with their five-line grouping, they were more in the form of a limerick than a typical poem.[12]
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