Billy Joel - Q&A: Tell Us About "Leningrad" Lyrics? (Nuremberg 1995)
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2013
- 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 answers a question about the lyrics in 'Leningrad' followed by a live performance of 'Piano Man' off the 1973 album of the same name in Nuremberg, Germany in 1995.
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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 always change the lyrics when I sing Piano Man to pay tribute to Billy himself. 'Sing us your songs, you're Thee piano man, sing us the songs, that get us through the night, cos we're all loving your melodies and Billy, you've got us all feeling alright'.
Mr William Martin Joel, thank you sir, very deeply and sincerely, for it all!
Billy joel is the best he rocks jay rader
Tell me a story... and play an unrelated song. Haha. That *is* an expensive question!!!
My late wife went to school with Billy. "In the town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island". I love musicians who are maters of their instrument. Billy Joel is a master of piano, voice, and not bad on guitar as well.
So pleased to hear that you are playing in Ireland next year and I hope to be there
Thank you sir.
Leningrad Billy Joel
Victor was born
The spring of '44
And never saw
His father anymore
The child of sacrifice
Child of war
Another son who never had
A father after Leningrad
Went off to school
And learned to serve his state
Follow the rules
And drank his vodka straight
The only way to live
Was drown the hate
The Russian life was very sad
And such was life in Leningrad
I was born in '49
A cold war kid in the McCarthy times
Stop 'em at the 38th parallel
Blast those yellow reds to hell
Cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desks in an air raid drill
Haven't they heard we won the war
What do they keep on fighting for?
Victor was sent
To some red army town
Served out his time
Become a circus clown
The greatest happiness
He'd ever found
Was making Russian…
The children lived in Levittown
Hid in the shelters underground
Til the soviets turned their ships around
Torn the Cuban missiles down
And in that bright October sun
We knew our childhood days were done
I watched my friends go off to war
What do they keep on fighting for?
So my child and I came to this place
To meet him , eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh
Then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad.
A musical icon.
An expensive question, lollll
expansive? ;-)
@@beckerfm It does sound like expensive in his accent but I am sure you are right and he said expansive.
I like when he slips into the Dylan voice.
Thank you for all your wonderful music. Bravo 👏
I just love Billy❤❤❤
I do not know why he is always reduced to just this one song!
he launched his career with it. People love it.
Leningrad is better
I noticed and estmate him becuase of his "Honesty" and "My Life"!
In my opinion , Leningrad is the best song ever written by Billy Joel
A masterpiece indeed... He composed many others. This man is a genius for music and poetry.
Leningrad and And So It Goes. Piano Man is so relatable to so many people.😇😇😇😇😇
@@MicheleMJJ" Piano man is so relatable". I guess it would, if you played piano in bars for a living.
@@deltafour1212 It's so relatable because he was describing all the people coming in to "forget about life for awhile."
Gottcha. I can't relate but I get it. I was lucky in life I guess to never have that issue.
You formed my singing and writing. I am rich...
Único genio 💕💕♥️
Having to explain the siege of Leningrad to Germans?
Beginnimg of December 2021 it is going to be 80 years that one of my uncles lost 2 arms and a leg and died 3 days later at the outskirts of Leningrad. My grandmother never got over this. One other son stayed missing in battle in Russia. But still: This year our war minister and her embedded media ask for a tough handling of Russia.
@@alexejsesterheim7267 What is your point?
The German minister of defence most probably asked for an appropriate relationship with the Putin administration which is running the Russian Federation today and offensively intervening in the internal affairs of foreign countries (looking e.g. at the Luhansk and Donetsk areas of Ukraine or at Syria the proper word for this is "war") and responsible for the occupation and annexation of foreign territory (Crimea).
Once Hitler broke his agreement with Stalin of August 23, 1939 - an agreement which led to the partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939 and the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bessarabia by the USSR shortly later and also gave Stalin the opportunity to attack Finland in the Winter War - the Soviet Union (which was not the same as Russia/RSFSR, but also consisted of republics like the 1945 UN founding members Belarus/BSSR and Ukraine/USSR) from June 22, 1941 on was at a defensive war with Nazi Germany.
Comparing present day Russia and Germany to the Soviet Union and the German Reich of that latter period is distracting from the complexity of historical developments and doesn't lead anywhere.
Therefore we should not stop trying to learn from what has happened back then.
By the way: My grandfather died in Lithuania while the Wehrmacht was retreating from the Soviet Union to the Reich in 1944, leaving behind his pregnant wife and two little daughters. All of his brothers had already died in battle in Russia (RSFSR) in 1942 and 1943 respectively. Their mother had three children when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. None of them was alive anymore when the Red Army reached the German borders in 1944.
That was the price that our family had to pay for our country waging war at our neighbours.
Should we Germans not learn from that history that attacking other countries as well as the occupation and annexation of foreign territories is not acceptable?
that deep exhale before Piano Man shows just how sick he is of playing this song.
He’s probably thinking “Here we go again.”
@Erik: That wasn't her question.
And 28 years later Russia is STILL living in WW2 hell, the tactics are still of that time !
¿Alguien me puede traducir al castellano eso de "Leningrado Lyrics"? NO entendí mucho, salvo que había hecho unos cambios a la versión original, en vista de lo que pasó en esa ciudad durante la 2GM. Pero el detalle no lo entiendo y, mucho menos, las diferencias con la letra original. En todo caso.... ¡acabo de darme cuenta que tiene ritmo de vals! ¡Jajaja! ¡Décadas oyéndola y recién me doy cuenta de algo tan básico! ¡Jajaja! Y me creía inteligente! ¡Jajaja!
María Teresa, te amo siempre.
Enrique Antonio Mena Caviedes Dice que la canción es sobre un hombre Víctor que Billy conoció en Russia. Billy quería escribir sobre la tristeza de la vida en Russia después de la guerra.
@@larakuhn8739 Muchas gracias. Ahora entiendo qué tiene que ver Piano Man con Leningrado, dos cosas que están más cerca de lo que cualquiera se imagina. Imagino que ese "Piano Man" de Leningrado es Shostakovich, el gran compositor de música, que resistió su asedio, escribiendo tremendas sinfonías y conciertos. Que lo pasó re mal después de la guerra, porque Stalin odiaba a todo aquel que brillase por sí mismo. Se sentía opacado.
I think he hates piano man after being asked to play it so much
Right...a song he wrote that has made him millions...yep, hates it...
@@scottpiper65 It gets boring to play the same song during concerts and in these masterclasses
@@matthewmcconahan897 Yeah I agree. I learned the song on piano about a year ago and even I got tired of playing it to myself, now I just listen to Billy play it.
Transferring your own feelings of boredom, possibly? I doubt this is true for Mr. Joel. Otherwise why does he put his all, why does he seem "happy" anytime he plays it?
Because he is The Entertainer and he knows just where he stands?!