He’ll make sure Billy Joel gets that Packers stock certificate with his name on it that was unveiled during the concert announcement in February.Ĭhris Speckhard: “She’s Got a Way” (1981)īilly Joel’s strength as a romantic songwriter was his ability to do cornball in a way that was adult, real and believable. Mark Murphy is CEO and president of the Green Bay Packers. Mark Murphy: “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (1989) Duty calls on Saturday her band is playing the Circle Tap in Denmark that night. Plus, I grew up a Catholic girl so the lyrics resonated with me.Īnna Snyder is a vocalist for Green Bay band The Cougars. “Only the Good Die Young” was still pretty popular when I was a teen so it served as an anthem to me for squeezing every bit of fun out of life I could.
Might need that if you’re all alone on a chunk of land in the middle of the ocean. Two of them are slow love ballads (“Always a Woman to Me” and “Just the Way You Are”) and the other is an upbeat song, so I guess I’d pick the upbeat song for the desert island. There are three songs that come to mind for me. 11 concert at Wrigley Field.Īnna Synder: “Only the Good Die Young” (1978) She’ll be in Chicago for Billy Joel’s Aug. Julie Larson is a Green Bay planning editor for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. During a 2010 appearance on the “Howard Stern Show,” he called it his least appreciated song, so give it a listen. I remember rewinding over and over on the cassette player just to hear “And you can have this heart to break” one last time. “And so it goes, and so it goes, and so will you soon I suppose.” Its beauty is in its simplicity and sentimentality - Joel at his best, just him and the piano. Written as a lyric poem in the early 1980s, it’s about entering a relationship that is doomed from the start. In the words of another much more famous Joel lyric, “it’s sad and it’s sweet,” a stripped-bare look at love. This lesser known ballad has always been my favorite Billy Joel song. You bet he’ll be at the Lambeau show - as part of a group of more than 20 fans. Yeah, I could listen to that one over and over.Īs Green Bay’s Piano Man, Dan Rafferty hosts the Piano Bar Sing-Along the first Thursday of each month at The Green Room Lounge in De Pere. “Only the Good Die Young,” “Honesty,” “Pressure,” “Just the Way You Are” - all classics, but if I had to choose just one, it’d have to be “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.” It has everything - the story, the mood, a little of showing off on the piano, the excitement. RELATED: Some Billy fun before his Lambeau showĭan Rafferty: “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” (1977) RELATED: Going to Billy Joel at Lambeau? What you need to know The results are as varied as his legendary career, from aficionados of his 1970s storytelling masterpieces to millennials whose school history classes included a 4-minute pop lesson courtesy of the singer/songwriter.Īnd while it’s guaranteed Saturday will see an estimated 45,000 faithful belting out the chorus of “Piano Man,” our panel’s picks remind us that there’s so much more to Billy Joel. To demonstrate the mass appeal of the Piano Man, we’ve assembled a roster of fans to share their “desert island” Billy Joel song – the one song they could listen to for the rest of their lives. And that’s what Billy Joel brings to the table.
It helps to own a seemingly limitless catalog of chart hits spanning generations and genres to attract the broadest possible audience.
Unless your name is Aaron Rodgers or Kenny Chesney, packing ’em in at Lambeau Field is a daunting challenge.
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