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“Piano Man” is about a straight entertainer oblivious to the reality he’s playing in a gay bar.
People have theorized about this for a long time. But I can prove it.
“Piano Man,” of course, is Billy Joel’s signature song. It’s a clarion call for straight people. They end what they’re doing when they hear the first few notes. By the time the harmonica licks begin, they’re on their feet. They belt out the entire song from memory, unironically, as if they were overcome with religious fervor.
I believe it’s their “I Will Survive.”
I’m going to lay out my case in two parts: First, I’ll provide some background communication and context. Then I’ll analyze the lyrics, focusing on each character named in the song. By the end, you’ll be convinced and will never hear the song the same way again.
This is part of my Gayskool project:
A recent LGBTQ-themed post every time for Pride month.
The First Seventies After Stonewall
Joel says he based “Piano Man” on his experiences playing in lounges in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. It was a transformation
Okay no, not really, just touring with piano man Elton John again, but he did arouse this impressive montage of gay history to commemorate 40 years of Celebration. He didn’t start the fire but it’s flaming:
Yeah, that quip was terrible but hey, I’m an innocent man! Unlike Conrad Black, who says shrill homophobe Ann Coulter is always a gal to him:
“With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient
to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and
photographs on her novel jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo,
like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is…eccentric, alluring and slightly outrageous…”
Gross, Conrad — leave a tender moment alone!
Here’s happier news: in a case of blonde over navy, Peterborough police staff sergeant John Lyons dressed in drag for a diversity training event. “We’re not just talking the talk,” said the uptown miss, “We’re walking the walk.”
Honesty is hardly ever heard but Fresh York teacher Chance Nalley is not only out to his Harlem seventh grade math class, he’s invited them to his comm
Billy Joel is in A New Wife State Of Soul. The pop legend got hitched for the fourth moment in a surprise ceremony Saturday, his spokeswoman said.
At 66, he married his 33-year-old pregnant girlfriend, Alexis Roderick, during the couple’s annual Independence Day party, springing it on a small team of friends and family, Claire Mercuri confirmed to the Daily News.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a longtime pal of Joel’s, administered the ceremony at Joel’s Long Island estate, a week after lawmakers granted him that authority.
Joel and Roderick, a former Morgan Stanley staffer, started dating website in 2009, the same year he and his third wife separated and more than two decades after he split from his second wife – “Uptown Girl” video star Christie Brinkley. In April, Joel and Roderick announced they were expecting, and reports express that the infant is a girl.
The unexpected vows played out in front of a compact, exclusive group at the “Piano Man” singer’s mansion on Centre Island in Oyster Bay, Newsday reported. Joel and Brinkley’s daughter, Alexa Ray, 29, and actor Kevin James, 50, were also there, the publication reported.
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Billy Joel Comments on ‘Piano Man’ Male lover Bar Theory
Billy Joel said he can understand the thinking behind the plan that his signature song “Piano Man” is set in a gay bar.
He’d recently discovered the suggestion that the track’s narrator is a naive vertical man who’s not sure what’s going on around him, which is why the regulars in the room seek him, “Man, what are you doin’ here?”
But the main argument centers on the lines about a conversation between a real estate salesman and a sailor.
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“There’s this new theory out there now that it’s actually about a homosexual bar,” Joel told NBC’s Today in a recent interview. “I [thought], ‘Oh I see how that could be.’ Paul’s talking to Davy who’s in the navy; he doesn’t have second for a wife.”
He explained that his original thinking behind Paul (“Now Paul is a genuine estate novelist / Who never had time for a wife”) was that he was too busy trying to write the Wonderful American Novel to find romance.
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Billy Joel has finally addressed the 'Piano Man' lgbtq+ bar theory
22 August 2024, 14:14
It's his signature song.
In fact, 'Piano Man' became so beloved that Billy Joel would frequently turn into known as the "piano man".
'Piano Man' was Joel's breakthrough song and has continued to bookend his concerts to this day, often performing it as his encore.
But in the years since its 1973 release, the song has taken on an entirely new essence to an entirely fresh generation of fans.
Joel himself was surprised in 2015 after performing at the Bonnaroo festival in the US, when the young crowd sang along word-for-word.
It's also taken on a new meaning with the LGBTQ+ community too, with a theory circulating that 'Piano Man' is about a piano player in a gay exclude, being the only person in there who doesn't know.
Some sections of his fans believe the narrator of the ballad is a naïve vertical man who's unsure of his surroundings, with his audience asking him: "Man, what are you doin' here?"
Now in a recent interview with NBC Today, Joel has addressed the 'gay bar' theory first-hand.
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