Billy Joel never sells tickets for the front rows of his concerts. Instead he has people picked from the cheap seats and brings them up front. True fans. I read he got tired of seeing nothing but bored faces of rich people up front.
@@bambiexplores This story carries credence, but as most stories, is not true in every case. When back home in America, especially the Jersey/New York area he will have more say. Most likely, as with most with most tales, this was a two or three time occurrence that got stretched into a full-blown rumor.. Still it does say a lot about the kind of artist he is.
...and I always thought it ironic that he wrote, "I love you just the way you are" for his wife, then divorced her for Christie. (that's my favorite rumor)
@@greggkotzman2542 ya can't tell if a rumor is true or not. There have been a LOT of songs with interesting background stories that turned out to be false.
@@greggkotzman2542 The song was released in 77, he divorced her in 82, and didn't marry Brinkley until 85. Apparently neither he, or his band, ever really liked the song in the first place... and he hasn't liked playing it live since he divorced his first wife. He also wrote 'She's Always A Woman" about her.
Uptown girl =high rise penthouse,men in tailored suits and door man Downtown man = Blue collar worker,rough working man hands and taking the subway.And no,that WAS NOT Dustin Diamond (Screech)
@@1976PartyBoy I think that's a bit of projecting. While song lyrics are often left to the interpretation. I think Joel was fairly clear here. The singer in the video (Joel) is a “downtown man” which certainly implies the opposite, that he is a relatively-humble, working-class guy. The premise of their entire interaction seems to be that the uptown girl is actually looking for a downtown man. Essentislly, she wants to date someone from a lower, more street-based class than herself. And the insinuated reason for so is that she is tired men that are “high-class” .
@@1976PartyBoy then what does uptown girl mean? If downtown a man means he’s willing to eat her out what does an uptown girl do? I mean men don’t have anything on the top half so I don’t know of any guys who want me to go uptown. It’s almost like you didn’t actually pay attention to the song and just picked out some words to make sexual for no reason.
Billy Joel married the supermodel Christie Brinkley less than two years after this song was released, but he wasn't even dating her when he started writing the song - he was actually dating another supermodel: Elle McPherson. According to an interview with Howard Stern, Joel had originally titled the song "Uptown Girls" and it was conceived on an occasion when he was surrounded by Christie Brinkley, Whitney Houston and his then girlfriend Elle Macpherson. Billy Joel had TWO supermodels! 👍👏👏
I got to see him last year in Portland, Oregon, and yeah, he's definitely still got his voice! When he played Piano Man at the end, everyone in the crowd was singing along too, and he and the band dropped out for the last chorus, so it was basically us singing to him "Sing us a song, you're the Piano Man, sing us a song tonight..." Such an awesome and frankly, meta experience. We were up in the extreme nose-bleed seats and it was still an amazing show to watch.
You should react to more 80's music videos. Uptown Girl was part of an album that was basically an homage to 60's doo-wop. Uptown Girl was one of the more well-known, along with For the Longest Time.
If anyone lives in New York I highly recommend seeing Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden.. He’s a resident at MSG. This man puts on an amazing performance and you’ll never know when it will be his last show.
Tribute to Frankie Valli + the 4 Seasons. Billy Joel originally wrote this as Uptown Girls. He was dating Elle Macpherson + befriended Whitney Houston + Christie Brinkley. BJ + EM broke up. So did the title! Backstreet Boys sang this in a tribute to Billy Joel. Other songs. Partial list. Tell Her about It, Big Shot, My Life (theme to Bosom Buddies), Pressure, A Matter of Trust, River of Dreams, Shameless, Honesty.
More Billy Joel to check out - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (starts out slow, but believe me, it picks up), Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Pressure, Zanzibar, Captain Jack, tons more. He's had well over 40+ hit singles in his career.
The uptown girl is wealthy and her father is white collar. The downtown man is the tougher, blue collar, man's man. He's more down to earth and doesn't try to impress. Harder around the edges than what she's been raised with. (Good girls really do love bad boys) If you've ever seen the original movie, Overboard, you'd see it perfectly.
+BillYouSoCrazy Let me try to explain. You know how in a town or city Uptown is usually where the rich, high bred, hoity toity people live & Downtown is usually where the poor blue collar working people live? So he's a poor blue collar working man from downtown (Downtown man) in love with a rich girl from uptown (uptown girl).
The Uptown Girl is super-model Christie Brinkley, who was featured on the cover of People magazine in a bathing suit at the age of 60. She still looks stunning. She & Billy Joel we’re married from 1985 until 1996. They had a daughter named Alexa Ray, named for Ray Charles. Many stadiums have retired numbers with his name on it in tribute to how many sold out shows that he performed there. He started in 1971 & is still touring today. To quote: He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time[3] as well as the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States,[4] with over 150 million records sold. He’s had some battles with depression, but is now happily married to his 4th wife and has 2 little girls with her. He is a National Treasure!
Downtown man= blue collar kinda guy. Fun fact for ya, this was written about his wife (the girl in the video and girl on the poster) Christy Brinkley. My fave couple growing up, and Christy was... no IS still gorgeous!!!
OLD SCHOOL, BOY!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE Billy Joel! If you ever wanna hear something awesome, check out his song "Young Piano Man". Fun song! Fun Fact: Billy Joel and Christine Brinkley, the model here in the video, actually got married and were a couple for many years. They are divorced (He had a real battle with alcohol, but is recovering) but amicable.
Billy Joel songs you need to react to "Piano Man", "You may be right", "My Life" and "We didn't start the fire", you need to react to Phil Collins song "I don't care anymore".
Christie Brinkley was gorgeous back then,and is still beautiful to this day.She has barely aged!☺️However,..bless her heart,she wasn't a very good dancer.I remember hearing the backstory of the making of this video,and the choreographer had to choose incredibly simple dance steps because Christie had no rhythm.😂
Prince made crop tops for Men popular, just like a lot of guys started letting their hair grow so it can be styled. Go look at DJ Quik, Sugar Free but most guys had Jerry curls cause Prince changed up on them with Purple Rain and 1999
When Billy Joel started writing "Uptown Girl" he was dating Elle McPherson, and it was about her he then started dating and eventually married Christy Brinkley and finished the song about her.
A buddy saw him live in the early 2000s. This was long after his marriage went bad with Christy Brinkley. Allegedly his band started playing this song and he came out and sang "UPTOWN GIRL! ..... KISS MY ASS!“ And that's how the song ended.
Christie Brinkley was the IT girl in the 80's. National Lampoon's Vacation has her in it. She is still gorgeous. And yes half shirts were in. Heh..wore them at track an cross country practice.
He wrote 2 songs about Christie Brinkley (his then wife) on this album. Besides this one there was Christie Lee and she was in another great video from this album called Keepin' The Faith (which looked like a mini movie)
The oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh note progression that seems familiar to you is basically taken from the Doo Wop style of music from the 1950's, which was the genre Billy Joel was taking off from in this song & video.
The anal eighties, where "all you need are looks and a whole lotta money." That's from another Billy Joel song if you haven't heard it. "Still Rock & Roll to Me," a highly danceable number like this one.
Billy Joel sold the third highest number of records out of any solo music artist, ever. Only beat by Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, and not by much.
screech would've been a toddler or small child around this time late 90's I think Saved by the Bell. lol, you can see billy joel likes the influence of 50-early 60's music in his style just like Grease
People are recommending other Billy Joel songs. Honestly he hsd so many hits I wouldn't even begin to know where to start. Uptown Girl was sung in the style of Frankie Valle and the Four seasons When I first heard it, I thiught it was the 4 Seasons singing it.
Actually your seeing the budding romance of Billy Joel and then future wife super model Christy Brinkley aka “ The Hot Chick from National Lampoon’s Vacation “. They had one daughter together , her name is Alexis . They have been divorced for many years .
Billy was trying to recapture a lot of the song styles of the 50's and styles like Doo Wop, Ray Charles and on this particular song Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The whole album An Innocent Man is fantastic and well worth a listen but that is jus the start for there are so many great songs Pressure, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, Still Rock and Roll to Me, You May be Right, The Ballad of Billy the Kid, Prelude Angry Young Man, The Entertainer, Anthony's Song(Movin Out), My Life, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Tell Her About it, The Longest Time, An Innocent Man, We Didn't Start the Fire, Downeaster Alexa, I Go to Extremes, Shameless(this is a Billy Joel original not Garth Brooks as some might think), Baby Grand(with the late great Ray Charles), Matter of Trust, River of Dreams,
The 80's had a lot of videos like this. If you haven't seen the original video to 'Micheal Jackson's Thriller' it's some amazing dancing, as is anything with his sister Janet or Paula Abdul. Since you have your new channel for movies, maybe you could put Nightwish's Greatest Show on Earth over there. (Since it basically is a short movie....and your Nightwish fans have been waiting around 5 months and all. Just a thought. Always love your reactions. )
Ever since this song was played on Preacher ,when Jesse fought that mob torturer and they beat the shit out of each other, I associate this song with violence lol
4:05 Check out the styles of the old "Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons" era of music of the 60s. Billy was highly influenced by them. (That style of singing)... aka, "big girls don't cry" by The Four Seasons. 👍🏻
Lacking full response overall about the video. Amazed at all the reaction videos that do this. There's history behind this video and MTV. Yes there are influences of Greased Lightning. What I got from this was - whatever, next video . . .
Basicly she was a rich girl and he wasn't rich=(downtown man) the woman in this video was super modle Christy brinkley. I believe they were married for a while when this vodeo came out ,it did have some similarities to grease. If you like musicals check grease out .
Billy! You can’t tell me you didn’t know Billy Joel was married to Christie Brinkly?! The Sports Illustrated model etc... come on! Shenanigans! React to more Billy Joel but the older stuff please!
Billy Joel never sells tickets for the front rows of his concerts. Instead he has people picked from the cheap seats and brings them up front. True fans.
I read he got tired of seeing nothing but bored faces of rich people up front.
OMG! That's pretty amazing! Thanks for that cool trivia, I had no idea, I love that though ♥
That’s honestly pretty awesome
Not true! Not anymore at least. I saw him at Wembley (London, UK) June 22nd 2019, and I paid big bucks for my front row seat ...
@@bambiexplores This story carries credence, but as most stories, is not true in every case. When back home in America, especially the Jersey/New York area he will have more say. Most likely, as with most with most tales, this was a two or three time occurrence that got stretched into a full-blown rumor..
Still it does say a lot about the kind of artist he is.
Thats amazing. goes to show he isn't obsessed with money
In case you don't recognize the girl in the video that's Christie Brinkley, she was Billy Joel's wife.
...and I always thought it ironic that he wrote, "I love you just the way you are" for his wife, then divorced her for Christie. (that's my favorite rumor)
@@greggkotzman2542 ya can't tell if a rumor is true or not. There have been a LOT of songs with interesting background stories that turned out to be false.
@@greggkotzman2542 The song was released in 77, he divorced her in 82, and didn't marry Brinkley until 85.
Apparently neither he, or his band, ever really liked the song in the first place... and he hasn't liked playing it live since he divorced his first wife. He also wrote 'She's Always A Woman" about her.
Mary Marney - Yeah but he originally wrote it for his previous model girlfriend after his marriage then ended up having it be about Christie.
Gregg Kotzman he wrote just the way you are for his first wife but he was already divorced before he met Brinkley
Uptown girl =high rise penthouse,men in tailored suits and door man
Downtown man = Blue collar worker,rough working man hands and taking the subway.And no,that WAS NOT Dustin Diamond (Screech)
I was wondering if anyone explained that for him.
Not True with the-'Downtown Man'- HE was referring to his-'Willingness' to go-'Downtown' on her as far as- 'SEXUALLY' imho …..
@@1976PartyBoy I think that's a bit of projecting. While song lyrics are often left to the interpretation. I think Joel was fairly clear here. The singer in the video (Joel) is a “downtown man” which certainly implies the opposite, that he is a relatively-humble, working-class guy. The premise of their entire interaction seems to be that the uptown girl is actually looking for a downtown man. Essentislly, she wants to date someone from a lower, more street-based class than herself. And the insinuated reason for so is that she is tired men that are “high-class” .
@@1976PartyBoy then what does uptown girl mean? If downtown a man means he’s willing to eat her out what does an uptown girl do? I mean men don’t have anything on the top half so I don’t know of any guys who want me to go uptown. It’s almost like you didn’t actually pay attention to the song and just picked out some words to make sexual for no reason.
More Billy Joel. Every breath that man pushed out his lungs became a hit!!! Hes beyond amazing.
THe Girl is Christie Brinkley of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit fame & Billy Joel ended up marrying her meeting on this video
Another great Billy Joel song is "We Didn't Start The Fire!" You should give it a listen!✌❤
They were already dating, possibly even married, by the time this video was made.
They did not in fact meet on this video.
They met in the Caribbean while they were on vacation.
Separately of course
The Uptown girl was Christie Brinkley. She was a very famous super model in the 80's. He later married her.
And he was just a musician, a piano man and he wrote this song for her.
Billy Joel married the supermodel Christie Brinkley less than two years after this song was released, but he wasn't even dating her when he started writing the song - he was actually dating another supermodel: Elle McPherson. According to an interview with Howard Stern, Joel had originally titled the song "Uptown Girls" and it was conceived on an occasion when he was surrounded by Christie Brinkley, Whitney Houston and his then girlfriend Elle Macpherson.
Billy Joel had TWO supermodels! 👍👏👏
I saw Billy Joel at Miller Park this past April. He's still got it - incredible show! The entire crowd sang and clapped along on this song.
I got to see him last year in Portland, Oregon, and yeah, he's definitely still got his voice! When he played Piano Man at the end, everyone in the crowd was singing along too, and he and the band dropped out for the last chorus, so it was basically us singing to him "Sing us a song, you're the Piano Man, sing us a song tonight..." Such an awesome and frankly, meta experience. We were up in the extreme nose-bleed seats and it was still an amazing show to watch.
You should react to more 80's music videos. Uptown Girl was part of an album that was basically an homage to 60's doo-wop. Uptown Girl was one of the more well-known, along with For the Longest Time.
Uptown Girl was Billy Joel's paying homage to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons with their style of harmonizing.
Billy Joel. Its still Rock and Roll to me. One of his best
If anyone lives in New York I highly recommend seeing Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden.. He’s a resident at MSG. This man puts on an amazing performance and you’ll never know when it will be his last show.
This is a kind of tribute to the 50's sound.
More Billy Joel. Every breath that man pushed out his lungs became a hit!!! Hes beyond amazing.
This song brings back so many memories!! Love the 80's!! It's my era.❤
Downtown man.
A working class blue collar worker.
The song is about a high class lady falling for a guy from
"The wrong side of the tracks"
We Didn't start the Fire is another great Billy Joel song. I figure you've already done Piano Man.
007videovixen yessssssss
I mean it’s fine but It’s not even in his top 20
Tribute to Frankie Valli + the 4 Seasons.
Billy Joel originally wrote this as Uptown Girls. He was dating Elle Macpherson + befriended Whitney Houston + Christie Brinkley. BJ + EM broke up. So did the title!
Backstreet Boys sang this in a tribute to Billy Joel.
Other songs. Partial list.
Tell Her about It, Big Shot, My Life (theme to Bosom Buddies), Pressure, A Matter of Trust, River of Dreams, Shameless, Honesty.
I LOVE THIS SONG !!
This is probably my absolute favorite Billy Joel song.
It's my favorite Billy Joel song too, probably because it has a Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons sound who are one of my all time favorite groups.
More Billy Joel to check out - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (starts out slow, but believe me, it picks up), Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Pressure, Zanzibar, Captain Jack, tons more. He's had well over 40+ hit singles in his career.
The uptown girl is wealthy and her father is white collar.
The downtown man is the tougher, blue collar, man's man.
He's more down to earth and doesn't try to impress.
Harder around the edges than what she's been raised with.
(Good girls really do love bad boys)
If you've ever seen the original movie, Overboard, you'd see it perfectly.
Billy Joel wrote this song inspired by Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli In Fact wrote the song for Grease!
+BillYouSoCrazy Let me try to explain. You know how in a town or city Uptown is usually where the rich, high bred, hoity toity people live & Downtown is usually where the poor blue collar working people live? So he's a poor blue collar working man from downtown (Downtown man) in love with a rich girl from uptown (uptown girl).
The Uptown Girl is super-model Christie Brinkley, who was featured on the cover of People magazine in a bathing suit at the age of 60. She still looks stunning. She & Billy Joel we’re married from 1985 until 1996. They had a daughter named Alexa Ray, named for Ray Charles. Many stadiums have retired numbers with his name on it in tribute to how many sold out shows that he performed there. He started in 1971 & is still touring today. To quote: He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time[3] as well as the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States,[4] with over 150 million records sold. He’s had some battles with depression, but is now happily married to his 4th wife and has 2 little girls with her. He is a National Treasure!
One of my favorites by Billy Joel please react to New York State of mind.
Because yes, that was the style. LOL
My guy, as a veteran, you should react to Billy Joel's Goodnight Saigon.
Downtown man= blue collar kinda guy.
Fun fact for ya, this was written about his wife (the girl in the video and girl on the poster) Christy Brinkley. My fave couple growing up, and Christy was... no IS still gorgeous!!!
OLD SCHOOL, BOY!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE Billy Joel! If you ever wanna hear something awesome, check out his song "Young Piano Man". Fun song! Fun Fact: Billy Joel and Christine Brinkley, the model here in the video, actually got married and were a couple for many years. They are divorced (He had a real battle with alcohol, but is recovering) but amicable.
That was the style. 80's had a whole exercise fashion craze.
Yes, as mentioned, they did get married. He was already a famous singer/piano man and she was a supermodel...... Christie Brinkley.
This is a kind of tribute to the 50's sound.
A Matter Of Trust is another good Billy Joel song along with the other songs the post have suggested.
Yo, you gotta check out Goodnight Saigon- Billy Joel.
It's a song for Vietnam veterans.
I died at the "billy you so croptop" 🤣🤣
Billy Joel songs you need to react to "Piano Man", "You may be right", "My Life" and "We didn't start the fire", you need to react to Phil Collins song "I don't care anymore".
It was the 80's...there were a lot of...unfortunate fashions.
XD You put it so well.
😂🤘
Facts
I was in my twenties when this song came out. We didn't wear that shit back then.
Read the description of the music video, this is meant to lool like the 60s, but it was made in the 80s
Billy Joel and I have the same birthday! May 9th! And this video is where he met Christie Brinkley who he later married!
Christie Brinkley was gorgeous back then,and is still beautiful to this day.She has barely aged!☺️However,..bless her heart,she wasn't a very good dancer.I remember hearing the backstory of the making of this video,and the choreographer had to choose incredibly simple dance steps because Christie had no rhythm.😂
Prince made crop tops for Men popular, just like a lot of guys started letting their hair grow so it can be styled. Go look at DJ Quik, Sugar Free but most guys had Jerry curls cause Prince changed up on them with Purple Rain and 1999
When Billy Joel started writing "Uptown Girl" he was dating Elle McPherson, and it was about her he then started dating and eventually married Christy Brinkley and finished the song about her.
A buddy saw him live in the early 2000s. This was long after his marriage went bad with Christy Brinkley. Allegedly his band started playing this song and he came out and sang "UPTOWN GIRL! ..... KISS MY ASS!“ And that's how the song ended.
Those are actual members of Billy's band dancing.
Christie Brinkley was the IT girl in the 80's. National Lampoon's Vacation has her in it. She is still gorgeous. And yes half shirts were in. Heh..wore them at track an cross country practice.
He wrote 2 songs about Christie Brinkley (his then wife) on this album. Besides this one there was Christie Lee and she was in another great video from this album called Keepin' The Faith (which looked like a mini movie)
Nice.
Billy wrote this song as an homage to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
I was just thinking "ya know who would sound amazing singing this song, frankie valli."
"I think i just watched Greese" lol i'm dead🤣😂
The oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh note progression that seems familiar to you is basically taken from the Doo Wop style of music from the 1950's, which was the genre Billy Joel was taking off from in this song & video.
It makes more sense when you know that was his wife, Christie Brinkley
You should check out the music that Christy Brinkley and Billy Joel's daughter, Alexis Rae Joel puts out. She's amazing, in my opinion.
Those shirts.. welcome to the 80's.
The anal eighties, where "all you need are looks and a whole lotta money." That's from another Billy Joel song if you haven't heard it. "Still Rock & Roll to Me," a highly danceable number like this one.
Billy Joel sold the third highest number of records out of any solo music artist, ever. Only beat by Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, and not by much.
The song is about his wife at the time Christie Brinkley the blonde in the video.
He wrote this when he was dating Christie Brinkley and they eventually married and had a beautiful little girl who is now an adult.
This is a tribute to "The Four Seasons" (and Roy Orbison).
screech would've been a toddler or small child around this time late 90's I think Saved by the Bell. lol, you can see billy joel likes the influence of 50-early 60's music in his style just like Grease
People are recommending other Billy Joel songs. Honestly he hsd so many hits I wouldn't even begin to know where to start. Uptown Girl was sung in the style of Frankie Valle and the Four seasons
When I first heard it, I thiught it was the 4 Seasons singing it.
The two break dancers are the guys outta breakin' the movie
You are hilarious. Love your reactions and comments. Love this channel!
Actually your seeing the budding romance of Billy Joel and then future wife super model Christy Brinkley aka “ The Hot Chick from National Lampoon’s Vacation “. They had one daughter together , her name is Alexis . They have been divorced for many years .
Just for the info, Billy did all the vocals with separate recordings. The guys werent singing in the video
I'm watching the video.
Billy was trying to recapture a lot of the song styles of the 50's and styles like Doo Wop, Ray Charles and on this particular song Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The whole album An Innocent Man is fantastic and well worth a listen but that is jus the start for there are so many great songs Pressure, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, Still Rock and Roll to Me, You May be Right, The Ballad of Billy the Kid, Prelude Angry Young Man, The Entertainer, Anthony's Song(Movin Out), My Life, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Tell Her About it, The Longest Time, An Innocent Man, We Didn't Start the Fire, Downeaster Alexa, I Go to Extremes, Shameless(this is a Billy Joel original not Garth Brooks as some might think), Baby Grand(with the late great Ray Charles), Matter of Trust, River of Dreams,
Billy Joel Duop kicks ass. Idgaf. 😂😂😂
You should react to Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel. ❤️❤️
Great sing along song. Simple and catchy....like all the songs in Grease
Likeeeeeee. Claudia Shiffer too, ahahahah
Yep! That's his wife!!😁😁
Please do "We didn't start the fire" from Billy Joel next :-)
The 80's had a lot of videos like this. If you haven't seen the original video to 'Micheal Jackson's Thriller' it's some amazing dancing, as is anything with his sister Janet or Paula Abdul. Since you have your new channel for movies, maybe you could put Nightwish's Greatest Show on Earth over there. (Since it basically is a short movie....and your Nightwish fans have been waiting around 5 months and all. Just a thought. Always love your reactions. )
You should react to Chuck Berry Live 1972 ~ My Ding-a-Ling. It is full of humor and also shows how good Chuck Berry relates to the audience.
Tell me you've done his "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"---soooooo good
I first knew this song from Glee
When the lights go out 5ivr
Ever since this song was played on Preacher ,when Jesse fought that mob torturer and they beat the shit out of each other, I associate this song with violence lol
4:05 Check out the styles of the old "Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons" era of music of the 60s. Billy was highly influenced by them. (That style of singing)... aka, "big girls don't cry" by The Four Seasons. 👍🏻
That woman is Christy Brinkley who was married to Billy Joel at one point
The other song w/ Uptown in the title could be " Uptown Funk " Bill . 🎶
You should check out Military Ballad ‐ Can't Believe We Miss This
sorry that you already did the 3 billy joel songs already even though i tweeted a request for these songs lol
1:59 I think you're thinking of "don't stop believing" by journey
react to november rain official video, the most watched rock video(Guns N' Roses) please🙏🏻
Yes more Billy Joel, Paula Abdul and Tom petty.
He means a blue collar worker.
The wonen in the video was billy joes first wife
Love Billy Joel! Try the song "for the longest time". It's amazing how they sing a capella ❤
He not they, Billy sang all of the parts himself for the recording and mixing, which is even more amazing in itself,
A downtown man is a blue collar man. Think construction worker. Shit I just saw someone else said the same thing. They beat me to it
It was the 80s, Billy, half shirts were in for guys. If I had had the abs for it I would’ve worn one too.
The song is about Christie Brinkley, his former wife.
This was a tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.
Jeez! Thank u - yes! I can't believe these kids haven't been exposed 2 a broader scope of music but better late than never -
Not to date myself, but this was the first non-kiddie song that I liked that my parents didn't expose me to first!
Still love it!
Yep, those shirts were the style in the 80's for men as well as women.
Lacking full response overall about the video. Amazed at all the reaction videos that do this. There's history behind this video and MTV. Yes there are influences of Greased Lightning. What I got from this was - whatever, next video . . .
We Didn't Start the Fire-Billy Joel
Basicly she was a rich girl and he wasn't rich=(downtown man) the woman in this video was super modle Christy brinkley. I believe they were married for a while when this vodeo came out ,it did have some similarities to grease. If you like musicals check grease out .
Down town man
Other side of the tracks kinda guy .
in case you didn't catch it she was cristy brinkley
Check out Trailer Choir - Rockin the Beer Gut
The girl he's singing about is his ex (gf, wife, whatever)! ....Christie Brinkley!
Billy! You can’t tell me you didn’t know Billy Joel was married to Christie Brinkly?! The Sports Illustrated model etc... come on! Shenanigans! React to more Billy Joel but the older stuff please!