JOEL HATES PIANO BAR RENDITIONS OF JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

Last updated: Saturday, June 3, 2006

JOEL HATES PIANO BAR RENDITIONS OF JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

BILLY JOEL hates hearing piano bar crooners perform his hit ballad JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - because the sheet music is all wrong.

Billy Joel performing live on the closing night of his twelve night run of concerts held at Madison Square Gardens. New York City, USA - 24.04.06

The PIANO MAN failed to notice the chord mistake when the music was first printed in the late 1970s and now cringes whenever a clever bar performer spots him at a table.

Joel says, "The first couple of chords are wrong; I didn't catch it... so I walk into a piano bar and the guy will start playing it and he'll play it the wrong way. I want to go over and correct him. That drives me nuts."

Joel, who wrote the tune as a birthday gift to his first wife ELIZABETH WEBER, has also removed the track from his live set because he admits it bores him - and he feels hypocritical singing about a love that lasts forever.

He adds, "It was written during a time when I was married to someone. I said, `I said I loved you and that's forever...' and, after 10 years, it was over.

"It kinda felt foolish. I said, 'Well, so much for forever.' I felt a little hypocritical.

"I also started getting bored (performing it) and I would start thinking about what I was gonna eat because I'm starving onstage."

| Saturday, June 3, 2006

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