Billy Joel - Q&A: How Does A Song Become A Record? (Harvard 1994)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Throughout the years, Billy Joel has become known for his willingness to hold Q&A sessions with fans in settings across the globe. Here Billy is asked about the process behind taking a skeleton of a song and turning that into a finished, fully-formed recording at Harvard University in 1994.
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Billy Joel's official UA-cam channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Best known for his first hit song, 'Piano Man', in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.
I stumbled upon these Q&A- bits accidentally. And I can't stop watching!
Same shit I was thinking when I saw this on my recommended
Me too! LOL 😆
The best is Billy’s and Elton’s Inside The Actors Studio
Even on his off days he sings better than most will ever be able to. He is an underrated singer, his voice is clear and velvety, yeah powerful and confident. He is articulate and agile but also stays soulful and you instantly know who it is after a couple syllables because it’s unique. I love his voice so much
He was batching about the way that 'Piano Man' Was cut on the radio, as many Joel fans know, it was a nearly 6 minute song. Artists songs like MeatLoaf and Bat out of Hell suffered the same treatment.
Don't blame Billy for saying such things in the Entertainer, just saying what he feels..
the difference is "artists" like meatloaf deserve that treatment lol
In the case of Meat Loaf, I appreciate the cutting. The less, the better.
*bitch not batch
And saying it pretty wittily and articulately I have to admit as a Billy Joel fan who has not always given him due credit for his lyrical acumen. (Not always sharp but more often than not quite impressive ). His skill at melody is in my mind almost unparalleled .
This is by far the most recent video or image of Billy Joel with no facial hair. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him without facial hair past the release of River of Dreams. In addition, him sitting on a stool playing guitar is even more rare than that. The combination make this seem so bizarre… But I like it.
Billy shaved at some point during the River of Dreams tour and spent much of 1994 clean-shaven. He remained beardless throughout the entire Face to Face tour with Elton John that summer. This video at Harvard was taped in October so he clearly hadn’t grown the beard back yet. However, when he accepted the Billboard Century Award two months later, his beard had returned. He has had facial hair ever since. So, all that to say… You are probably right. This is quite possibly the last footage of him without any facial hair. And it’s sad that I was able to comment this much on the topic…
....and this is why he’s not the Guitar Man.
But he still draws the crowds, he plays so loud, baby…
I kinda wished that he explained the meaning of the song more
It's about the ups and downs of the music industry and the hoops performers have to jump through in order to get their music heard and how it can eat you up and spit you out, where often you can go from being flavour of the month to your music ending up in the back of the discount rack when a new performer comes along.
I loved the Midnight Special & Wolfman Jack...IMO one of the best music tv shows ever. I have several volumes of MS dvds, one of which has an awesome version of Travelin Prayer.
That didnt answer the mans question.
looks like the actual answer was cut off in this video at the beginning, meaning the title should be changed to something like "Billy Joel plays 'The Entertainer' "
@@joe-vz6hx If you're gonna have a hit you got to make it fit so they cut it down to 3:04
He writes the melody first and then adds the lyrics afterwards based on what he thinks is the mood of the song.
he did pay attention
Oh yes I remember Wolfman Jack quite well I remember meeting him and getting a signed photo of it is such a cheerful guy he had a great radio personality in voice and Midnight Special was great there no VCRs DVDs when it happened it happened and that's all you have is your memory
The Midnight Special was fantastic! And Wolfman Jack was such in icon that he even had cameo in Spielberg's "American Graffiti." Don Kirchner's Rock Concert was popular as well.
The Midnight Special is legendary. Everybody who was anybody at the time played on it.
i personally hated it lol
@@riverxvi9092 Huh, you again. I've seen you around other Billy Joel videos. Funny, huh :)
That was my reaction when I first heard the song 1974: What WAS he griping about? He had a hit song on the radio (Piano Man), he was making records, playing concerts and even was on TV (yes, he WAS on Midnight Special, himself). How many struggling young pop/rock performers would have killed to be where he was at that time?
....and he was right. Radio edits to songs cheapen what they created to play more quantity with quality being a distant second of importance.
I love this one so much! How he apologises for being "politically incorrect" at 3:01, the little "Jesus..." when his voice breaks at 4:17, and the way he says "he's already _bitching_ about being a star!" at 4:47. So funny...
Sounds like billy has a cold
What's with the knock on "The Midnight Special"? I enjoyed that show. It was a great showcase for the popular acts at the time. Not sure why Joel would take such a gratuitous cheap shot at it and Wolfman Jack, who has a significant place in rock history, at least in California and the border states, with his presence on radio in the 60's.
Is there more to this where he answers the question
Great story of the song but it didn't answer the guy's question.
Poor billy is under the weather. Sounds god awful and he knows it to lol.
+Chase Northcott Doesn't help that after he breaks a string his guitar is out of tune.