In & around NY always had a lot of 'types' by race, class, ethnicity, etc. But the white-ethnic, working-class/middle-class New Yorker with the accent & the attitude was still a big part of the city & suburbs in the 70s & 80s. And nobody embodied that like Billy Joel.
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It's easy to forget, listening to Billy Joel's music, that it is not actually that easy to write catchy pop-rock, over & over & over. But only a few others have done it as consistently, and fewer still did the words & music without a writing partner.
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And one of the last guys to sing a song that you could not only understand what he was saying, but also made to want to sing along.
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First album I bought with my own money was Joel’s “Storm Front.”
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Saw him when I was in Jr High at what was then the Meadowlands
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I don't think i've met anyone who's ever really disliked Billy Joel.
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True. But the personality of the NY area has changed for good.
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For me it was Martha Reeves in 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degqZ3fpyuY …
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