Rolling Stoneのインスタグラム(rollingstone) - 4月13日 23時11分

#BillyJoel scored his first Billboard Top 40 hit 41 years ago this month with "Piano Man." "When Joel was eight, his father left the family and Joel's mother struggled to support her two children in suburban Hicksville, Long Island. As a teenager Joel ran with a leather-jacketed street gang and boxed for three years, breaking his nose in the process. In the late-1960s, after playing in local cover bands, Joel joined the Long Island group the Hassles, who released two meager-selling records on the United Artists label. He then formed a hard-rock duo, Attila, with Hassles drummer Jonathan Small; Small's wife, Elizabeth Weber, would later wed Joel. Attila's only album also failed. Taking up commercial songwriting, Joel signed with Family Productions in 1971. His solo debut, 'Cold Spring Harbor,' demonstrated both his fondness for Long Island and the somber side of his singing/songwriting approach, but because the tapes were inadvertently sped up slightly in production, Joel's voice sounded nasal and unnatural. Legal and managerial woes precluded an immediate followup, and for six months Joel performed in West Coast piano bars under the name Bill Martin. These experiences informed his breakthrough, 'Piano Man.'" From RollingStone.com. Photograph by Gijsbert Hanekroot #PianoMan

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