3 STORIES
1973 · 70S
LOS ANGELES, USA
"Piano Man" sounds like a cosy pub singalong, but it is really a young musician's undercover report from rock bottom: Billy Joel, hiding fro…
1982 · 80S
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
"Allentown" is really about Bethlehem, Pennsylvania — Billy Joel borrowed the neighboring town's name because it sang better — and beneath i…
1989 · 80S
It sounds like a breathless history quiz, but "We Didn't Start the Fire" is really a 40-year-old father's reply to a young man who thought h…