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We Didn’t start the Fire-Billy Joel

Is there anyone else like Billy Joel? To quit making music when he had a lot of years left? His last studio album was released in 93? I don’t believe he really had a drop off, he seemed to be consistently good throughout his entire career. I guess music wasn’t really his passion?
 
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All for now; I am sure a few more will come to me.
 
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Is there anyone else like Billy Joel? To quit making music when he had a lot of years left? His last studio album was released in 93? I don’t believe he really had a drop off, he seemed to be consistently good throughout his entire career. I guess music wasn’t really his passion?
Not going to lie. 93 seems about the right time for him to quit.
 
Is there anyone else like Billy Joel? To quit making music when he had a lot of years left? His last studio album was released in 93? I don’t believe he really had a drop off, he seemed to be consistently good throughout his entire career. I guess music wasn’t really his passion?
He’s not hip but I love me some Billy Joel.
 
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Is there anyone else like Billy Joel? To quit making music when he had a lot of years left? His last studio album was released in 93? I don’t believe he really had a drop off, he seemed to be consistently good throughout his entire career. I guess music wasn’t really his passion?

I think he stopped making pop/rock albums because he has a passion for classical music and he wanted to focus on that. He ended up releasing an album of classical music in 2001. He eventually started touring and playing his old hits again not too long after that. My family and I saw him at Kauffman Stadium in KC a couple years ago and it was an extremely enjoyable evening. He may not be everyone's cup of tea but dude's an American treasure.


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He lost his muse in 1994. Every hetero male on HROT would have eaten a bullet after losing that hot POA. I give him credit for not drinking himself to death yet.
 
Is there anyone else like Billy Joel? To quit making music when he had a lot of years left? His last studio album was released in 93? I don’t believe he really had a drop off, he seemed to be consistently good throughout his entire career. I guess music wasn’t really his passion?
Just recently re-read this 2014 New Yorker feature story on him, it's pretty good. Apparently he is very happy just performing a few times a year and entertaining his fans with his older catalog. Kind of respected him more.

 
As a kid through my 20s, I cringed every time I heard Piano Man. Hated that song. Now, in my 40s, I think I know what he was singing about… and I actually like it.

"Son can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"

Life moves fast.
 
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As a kid through my 20s, I cringed every time I heard Piano Man. Hated that song. Now, in my 40s, I think I know what he was singing about… and I actually like it.

"Son can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"

Life moves fast.

Oh ladadadada ladadadaaaa sing us a song you’re the piano man, sing us a sing tonighttt
 
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