Billy Joel - Q&A: What Was The Inspiration For "Miami 2017"? (UPenn 2001)
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- Опубліковано 23 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 is asked about the inspiration behind 'Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)' off the 1976 album Turnstiles at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.
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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.
Such a compelling story teller. He's been the soundtrack of my life.
The best to ever do it!!! My absolute favorite. If your a big Billy fan you should check this out: www.reverbnation.com/dominickdipietrantonio the song is called "Turnstile moonwalk" there's also another song "Be Myself" that has a sax solo by Billy's original sax player Richie cannata.
It’s funny at the start when he says “bufangulo” it means f*ck off in Italian
I’m from Italy, precisely would be “vaffanculo”
Yes but that’s the way billy Joel said it because he has slang in is Italian
@@coreyadams6575 indeed - as it is in the Neopolitan dialect - appropriate, as it is very prevalent in New York.
I saw him live for the first time in my life last October 20th at MSG. He opened with Miami 2017. My life is complete.
I can defintely tell the difference in Billy's voice in this viedo 16 yrs ago compared to now. Its much crisper and on!
Thats what happens as you age....your vocal cords & muscles change and thus your voice. And unlike certain other singers, he doesnt use studio tricks to tweak it in his older age
It's really interesting that the song isn't even about Miami or the year 2017 (which was crazy far in the future in 1975-76 when he wrote it), it's from the perspective of him as an old dude telling the story of the apocalypse to his grandkids.
The song I immediately thought of listening to the staccato sound of the floors collapsing in the South Tower on 9/11.
During the 9/11 benefit concert he said it was about an alien invasion. He added that he never thought something like it could happen, and said - “But we’re not going anywhere!”
I am here on 5/13/20. I just watched the video of him playing this for Robin Hood Foundation Covid-19 fundraiser.
The lights on the Empire State Building synced to him playing this song............. Awesome!
I'm pretty sure that he played this for both 9/11 and 12/12/12 previously.
🎹🗽🎶
An absolute master of his craft.
Wonderful
Love this song and New York State of Mind!
What a great story. I wish America was great again like that
1:10 … “I thought, you know what?
Bah fongul!”
Wow, I'm sure this song has a chilling effect on everyone considering this was only two months after 9/11. I could only imagine what people in the audience were thinking when he sang the lyrics "I saw the might tower fall."
In fact I wondered if Joel was prescient when he wrote this. I think again with Covid this song has relevance as well.
I spent 48 hours in NYC last summer, and it was great visiting during its post-lockdown recovery, but without the international tourist crowds.
I heard he sung this song after 9/11 at a concert and yelled "We're not going anywhere.
"We held a concert out in Brooklyn"
@@dansfilms7901 yes at the concert for New York which was held in Brooklyn he opened the song by saying how he never thought the lyrics would become so relevant and said unlike the end of the song, we aren’t going nowhere. Very emotional moment definitely recommend watching I think it’s on Vimeo somewhere used to be up here not anymore
Billy Joel is an amazing imitator
Thats what he says
Its sad that the lyrics became reality on 9/11
Bubba Booey the song itself now is actually use as a NYC rallying cry and i think he actually performed it in commeration of the evil day
That one lyric which was “I watched the mighty skyline fall”
Not long now! And even if the lights don't go out, it's still going to be an interesting year :-/
THAT was the first words in Italian that I ever learned from a Night Securiity Guard named ED, whose best friend was Italian. He said You need to learn THIS phrase "Fu'fa'guah - bachia' mia azzano!" :)
Meaghie Champion what does that mean ?
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Can we get a Miami 2017 tribute concert by the time this year is over???
Does anyone else get choked up hearing this song now, and you didn't when it first came out? .. or is it just me?
I assume it has to do with being older now, Son of Sam,the WTC bombing in '93, 9/11, Sandy, COVID-19, and the people drowning in their basement apartments 2 weeks ago. 🤔
So i tought..vaffangul..ahah..hilarious
Billy Joel created a song in 1976 called Miami 2017 Remember what happened to Miami and NY & East Coast and CA in 2017? How and why? I have all his records bought in 2017 and 1 Of my faves since 1976 💪❤️ Some people just know #messages
LYRICS
Seen the lights go out Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the Palisades
They all bought Cadillacs
And left there long ago
They held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the island bridges blow
They turned our power down
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn't notice it
We'd seen it all the time on Forty second street
They burned the churches down in Harlem
Like in that Spanish civil war
The flames were everywhere
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
And blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Per Piano Man niente e' impossibile la musica e' un gioco facile 🎹
mr Joel come to 🇨🇳 to do a Q&A with your Chinese fans Plz 😭
Did he ever play Miami 2017 IN Miami in 2017?
This is a "HISTORY LESSON"""
And now..curiously the year 2017 was kinda like today's world..or worse
what he says at 1:12 ?
fangool
bernie gonzalez thanks pal
Nugrahary Cahya Ramadhani it's a cuss word.
Sadly, this song has become a metaphor for the whole country.
what is miami 2017?
It's a town in Florida with a year in future times.
+Unclaimed Pantss its beter know by its unofficial name I've Seen the Lights go out on Broadway, the reason he called it 2017 is because he imagined it as grandparents explaining to their grandchildren about what happened to New York if it went bankrupt or "defaulted", and imagined New York as an apocalyptic wasteland. Side Note: THIS SONG HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11, but people connected 9/11 to it due to the similarities between the lyrics and the events that happened that morning.
Eli Rah the song was written in the 70's. and this lecture was in the early 2000's. people associate it with 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy simply because of the lyrics depicting New York in a state of decay. (PS Wikipedia is a very unreliable source for info)
@@thezombiecreeper He played it for the 12/12/12 benefit concert for Sandy. He also changed the words for Ssndy.
ThePianoMan yeah, when I wrote that comment, I was what they call, uhh,
Retarded?
Whatever.
Now I know that Billy wrote this from the eyes of a guy in Florida telling this story to his grandkids about an “apocalypse” in NYC, even though it was mainly just the fact that NYC was, uhh,
Bankrupt?
1:58 "And I'm telling my grandchildren in 2017" Nice try bud, you still were having children in 2017
LYRICS
Seen the lights go out Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the Palisades
They all bought Cadillacs
And left there long ago
They held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the island bridges blow
They turned our power down
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn't notice it
We'd seen it all the time on Forty second street
They burned the churches down in Harlem
Like in that Spanish civil war
The flames were everywhere
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
And blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
It’s so sad to see these lyrics became reality for Chicago in 2019
Negative! its sad that the lyrics became reality on President Trump appearance
Of course a good song has to be made political for no reason