Lucy Museum of Musicians - Billy Joel

Qualification to The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians is they must have a minimum of three songs which would make me turn up the radio if they came on


Billy Joel
Qualifying Songs: Piano Man, This Night, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant 

Billy Joel is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and he can now add The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians to the list.
He may have given up writing pop songs in favour of classical piano pieces but he has a magnificent back catalogue to fall back on including the brilliantly poignant 'Piano Man' which only made it to a high of 136 in the UK Charts on it's release in 1973 but then Billy has only troubled the UK top 10 five times in a 45 year career.
As my parents were both Billy Joel fans, i sort of fell into his music by osmosis and i never really realised i was a fan of his until i found myself buying one of his Greatest Hits album as i knew and liked every song on the album.
'This Night' was a gem hidden away on the Innocent Man Album and according to Wikipedia, was about his brief relationship with supermodel Elle Macpherson, whom he dated just prior to second wife Christie Brinkley which is a magnificent bit of punching above his weight. Beethoven is given a writing credit on the song as it is based on Ludwig's Pathétique Sonata.
'Scenes From An Italian Restaurant' is an epic of three songs stitched together with a ballad which goes into a jazz New Orleans style mid-section and then a piano rock section before returning to the original ballad.