The Stranger surpassed Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water as Columbia’s top seller. Columbia had threatened to drop Billy Joel before he released this album. Billy Joel gave ex-wife Christie Brinkley a personalized performance at his Madison Square Garden show in New York City last week when he serenaded the former model with his classic song 'Uptown Girl.' Brinkley, 60, was in the front row Thursday night when the 'Piano Man' launched into his 1983 hit, at times pointing at her and smiling. According to the Uptown Girl Songfacts, Joel explained to Howard Stern that he was on vacation in the Caribbean when he was playing the piano, looked up, and saw Elle McPherson. No wonder this album was Billy Joel’s top seller for a non-compilation collection. 'Uptown Girl' is a song performed by musician Billy Joel, whose lyrics deal with a working-class 'downtown man' attempting to woo a wealthy 'uptown girl'. How about Movin’ Out, She’s Always a Woman to Me and Only the Good Die Young. After Princess Diana’s character whirled onstage to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl in an opera house scene in the new season of The Crown, the Piano Man confirmed that the royal rocked. All four singles released from the album hit the top 40, with Just the Way You Are securing some spiffy hardware at the 1978 Grammys.īut that’s not the only memorable song from the Stranger. El cantante neoyorquino Billy Joel no se inspiró en su esposa, la modelo Christie Brinkley, para componer la famosa canción Uptown Girl, sino en la también maniquí australiana Elle Macpherson. Billy Joel releases the album The Stranger.
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