We’re all within the temper for these melodies.
Spotify compiled a listing of the Prime 10 most streamed Billy Joel songs for The Submit — and the tune that took the crown pays homage to his supermodel ex.
The 1983 hit “Uptown Girl,” which Joel penned for his future spouse, Christie Brinkley, landed within the No. 1 spot, based on the stats, compiled after the July twenty sixth soundtrack album launch for Joel’s new HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.”
“I wasn’t even dating Christie when I started writing the song, I was dating Elle [Macpherson],” Joel as soon as informed Howard Stern.
“And then I started dating Christie and rather than it be about all these different girls, she became the ‘Uptown Girl.’”
The Prime 10 most streamed Billy Joel songs on Spotify globally are:
- “Uptown Girl”
- “Piano Man”
- “Vienna”
- “She’s Always a Woman”
- “My Life”
- “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
- “Just the Way You Are”
- “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”
- “Only the Good Die Young”
- “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)”
Within the movie, Brinkley, who was married to Joel from 1985 to 1994, stated she loved being his muse.
“It was fun to be having this whirlwind romance and having certain aspects of that turn into music,” she gushed.
“Piano Man,” in second place, was the six-time Grammy winner’s first hit, launched in 1973.
It was impressed by characters Joel met at The Government Room, the bar the place he performed when he and his first spouse, Elizabeth Weber, moved to Los Angeles after his first report “Cold Spring Harbor” flopped.
Weber, who labored on the bar as properly, was the one Joel refers to within the lyric “the waitress is practicing politics” — and she or he informed The Submit how her now-famous serving gig took place.
“Bill didn’t drive and when he went to work, I drove him and waited around to drive him home. John at the bar convinced me to be a cocktail waitress even though I had no experience,” she recalled.
“He knew we had little money and figured if I had to be there while Bill was working, I could make some money too.”
The piano man, 76, who has been married 4 occasions, admitted that lots of his hits had been about Weber.
“They say ‘Write what you know,’ so I wrote what I knew. A lot of the songs were based on Elizabeth,” Joel, a Bronx native who grew up on Lengthy Island, stated within the movie.
Two of the songs on the Prime 10 listing — “She’s Always a Woman” and “Just the Way You Are” — are based mostly on Weber.
“Oh, I couldn’t answer how many songs are about me,” she stated. “We were just living our lives together and we never spoke of it.”
The 1977 tune “Vienna,” which Joel wrote about visiting his father — who deserted him when he was 8 — within the Austrian metropolis in his 20s, got here in third place.
Joel has offered over 150 million information in his profession — making him some of the well-liked recording artists on the planet — and it’s not onerous to know why his songs nonetheless resonate, Weber stated.
“The human condition has not changed since time began. We all fall in love, experience pain, sorrow and joy,” she stated.
