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Piano Man» es una canción interpretada por el cantante estadounidense Billy Joel, publicada en noviembre de 1973 como el primer sencillo de su álbum homónimo. Narra su propia vida como pianista de poco éxito en un bar y la de varias personas quienes comparten con él sus fracasos.
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El sencillo «Piano Man», es un relato ficticio de los días de Joel como cantante de salón en Los Ángeles, alcanzó el puesto 25 en el Billboard Hot 100, y el número 4 en la lista de sencillos Adult Contemporary.
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Song background
"Piano Man" is a fictionalized retelling of Joel's own experience as a piano-lounge singer for six months in 1972–73 at the now defunct Executive Room bar in the Wilshire district of Los Angeles. In a talk on Inside the Actors Studio, Joel said that he had to get away from New York due to a conflict with his then recording company and hence lived in Los Angeles for three years with his first wife. Since he needed work to pay the bills, but could not use his better known name, he worked at the...
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The verses of the song are sung from the point of view of a bar piano player who focuses mainly on the "regular crowd" that "shuffles" into the bar at nine o'clock on a Saturday: an old man, John the bartender, the waitress, businessmen, and bar regulars like "real estate novelist" Paul and navy sailor Davy. Most of these characters have broken or unfulfilled dreams, and the pianist's job is to help them "forget about life for a while", as the lyrics state. The pianist makes money when the pa...
Releases
It was first released as a single on November 2, 1973, and then as the second track on Joel's Piano Manalbum and was later released on several greatest hits collections. When originally issued as a single, the song was deemed too long at (5:37), by Columbia Records executives. Two verses were cut in half and spliced together for the release at (4:33). A promo 45 contained an even shorter edit, at (3:16), which also removed the 4th verse and final chorus. These single edits were remixed – brin...
Joel wrote and originally performed the song in the key of C major. It has a 3 4 waltz time signature and begins with a jazzy piano solo before moving into its piano and harmonica introduction. The verses and the chorus feature a descending walking bassline in C that ends with a D – G turnaround. Instrumentally, Joel's 1973 version features piano, ...
7" US single
1. "Piano Man" – 4:30 2. "You're My Home" – 3:08
The first music video for this song was released in 1973. It features Joel portraying Bill Martin, a bar act performing the song, and shows a typical American bar as a setting. A new version of the video was shot in 1985, with new extras, and a much more crowded and upbeat bar scene. The original video used an alternate take of the song but it was ...
The single broke into the Billboard Top 40 in April 1974 at #30,going on to ultimately peak at #25, making it Joel's first top 40 hit. In Canada, the song peaked at #10, and established Joel as a star there. (From 1975 to 1980, every one of Joel's charting singles peaked higher in Canada than in the US, except for songs that reached #1 in both mark...
"Piano Man" Music Video on YouTube / ⒞1985 Sony BMGchannelLyrics of this song at MetroLyricsMike Stewart. In what has come to be one of his trademark songs, “Piano Man” draws upon Joel’s experience as a bar pianist at The Executive Room in LA to tell the story of a typical… Read More....
Letra. Traducción. Significado. Hombre Piano. Piano Man. Son las nueve de un sábado. It's nine o'clock on a Saturday. El público de siempre se entremezcla. The regular crowd shuffles in. Hay un hombre viejo sentado a mi lado. There's an old man sitting next to me. Haciéndole el amor a su Gin-tonic. Making love to his tonic and gin.
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