ALL EARS ON: Billy Joel | Vienna 2020. Captital of Music

Billy Joel has been a superstar for decades. As well as a fascinating personality. On Long Island, New York, the Grammy winner who has sold more than 82 million albums answered our questions about Beethoven and Vienna in May 2019.

The “piano man” is touched by both topics: He talks with passion and spontaneously improvises on the piano. He plays Beethoven by heart. And reports that he grew up with Beethoven’s music and has Viennese ancestors. That he used bars from Beethoven’s “Pathétique” in his song “This Night”. That he experienced jamming to classical music in Vienna. And much more...

"My favorite part of writing is when I have written."

"I went out with some friends, some crazy musicians, to some bar. Instead of jamming rock and roll or blues or jazz, they were jamming classical music in the middle of the night."

"Slow down, look around you and have some gratitude for the good things in your life. That’s what Vienna represented to me."

The popstar and Grammy winner in an interview about Vienna.

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