CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

* Euforia-Helen Sjöholm sjunger Billy Joel, a 2010 album by Swedish singer Helen Sjöholm

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Artists covered in the show include Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, and Don McLean.

Billy Joel famously plays the harmonica, in addition to his piano, on his signature song, " Piano Man ".

* Billy Joel, an American singer-songwriter

* " Leningrad " ( song ), 1989 song by Billy Joel

* 1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( The Hassles and Attila )

Pianos have also been used in rock and roll by entertainers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elton John, and Billy Joel to name just a few.

" John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling " punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that like Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music.

In 1989, Billy Joel mentioned the rivalry between the two companies in the song " We Didn't Start The Fire ".

Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both commented on the otherworldly quality of Orbison's voice.

* The Concert for New York City, a benefit concert with proceeds going to the families of 9 / 11 victims, is held at Madison Square Garden, featuring performances by David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Destiny's Child, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Billy Joel, Elton John, Jay-Z, Adam Sandler, and others.

* The Suez Crisis is mentioned in the 1989 hit song " We Didn't Start the Fire " by Billy Joel.

* Billy Joel

* May 9 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist

With this company, Tharp developed the material that would go on to become Movin ' Out, a musical featuring the songs of Billy Joel and featuring most of the dancers that were in Tharp Dance.

Tharp premiered her dance musical Movin ' Out, set to the music and lyrics of Billy Joel in Chicago in 2001.

However, the song writers were the performers, so that the recipients were the same in only 16 cases ( Domenico Modugno, Paul Simon, Christopher Cross, Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie, Billy Joel, Bobby McFerrin, Natalie Cole, Eric Clapton, Seal, Shawn Colvin & John Leventhal, James Horner, U2, the Dixie Chicks, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Lady Antebellum, and Adele ).

* The Billy Joel song " Miami 2017 ( Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway )" is set in this year.

A few examples of Steinway Artists are Daniel Barenboim, Harry Connick, Jr., Billy Joel, Evgeny Kissin, Diana Krall, Lang Lang ; and a few examples of " immortals " are Benjamin Britten, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Vladimir Horowitz, Cole Porter and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

**" Allentown " ( song ), by singer Billy Joel about Allentown, Pennsylvania

Elton John holds the all-time record for greatest number of appearances at the Garden with 62 shows ( the 60th occurring on his 60th birthday, March 25, 2007 ), and Billy Joel set a record in 2006 during his 12 performance run, the longest run of a single artist at the venue.

It has the best acoustics, the best audiences, the best reputation, and the best history of great artists who have played there ", said Billy Joel.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

In 1961, Billy played on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series on episode " Door Without a Key.

The newspaper seller, a walk-on role, is played by Billy Benedict ( of The Bowery Boys ).

Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.

Frontiersmen Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid played the instrument, and it became a fixture of the American musical landscape.

Cummings is played by Billy Crudup.

* The 1999 film Cleopatra ( played by Billy Zane )

Top musicians who played on Nirvana sessions include: Lesley Duncan, Herbie Flowers, Billy Bremner ( later of Rockpile / Dave Edmunds fame ), Luther Grosvenor, Clem Cattini and the full lineup of rock band Spooky Tooth, Pete Kelly ( Keyboards ) who also co-wrote ' Modus Operandi ' on the ' Local Anaesthetic ' album.

" Longtime fan Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins played guitar and sang back-up on the track " Turn My Way ", and in 2001 toured with the band on dates in the UK, US, and Japan for a short period of time.

" Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel, All the Pretty Horses.

Vincent Irizarry, Sharon Case, Genie Francis, Maura West, Eden Riegel, Billy Miller, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Marcy Rylan, Amelia Heinle Luckinbill, Sarah Brown, Laura Wright, Veleka Gray, Robin Mattson, Lenore Kasdorf, Roscoe Born, Judith Chapman, David Canary, and Michael Sabatino have all played multiple soap roles.

Also, the emergence of William Wolfe ( universally known as Billy ) as a leading figure played a huge role in the SNP defining itself as a left-of-centre and social-democratic party.

There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.

Grace ( left ) with former Australia national cricket team | Australian Test captain Billy Murdoch when both played for London County.

Eastwood directed and played the lead role in the 1980 comedy Bronco Billy alongside Locke, Scatman Crothers, and Sam Bottoms.

* In Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, the character of Mr. Jackson, played by Porter Hall, is from Medford, Oregon, but mentions Corvallis in this line to Walter Neff ( Fred MacMurray ): " It's the name!

He played the role of Billy Flynn on Broadway in 2000, and also was in the North American tour of the musical, in 1999 and in 2000.

In Scorsese's The Departed he played the role of Billy Costigan, a state trooper working undercover in an Irish Mob in Boston.

Trading Places is again referenced as the royal entourage leaves the Waldorf-Astoria in the final New York – based scene in the movie: the driver of Akeem and Semmi's limo is played by the same actor who played the Dukes ' driver in Trading Places, from whom Billy Ray Valentine ( Murphy ) seeks counsel when the Dukes pick him up after bailing him out of jail.

The " Puffin ' Billy " theme played as the opening of each episode, with the music continuing until the Captain hung his large ring of keys on a nail ( which seemed to act as a switch to turn off the music ).

Twenty years later, as the amnesiac private is released from the hospital, Adenoid Hynkel ( also played by Chaplin ), the ruthless dictator of Tomainia, has undertaken to persecute Jews throughout the land, aided by Minister of the Interior Garbitsch ( Henry Daniell ) and Minister of War Herring ( Billy Gilbert ).

In 2001, the movie 61 *, produced by Yankee fan Billy Crystal, chronicled Mantle ( played by Thomas Jane ) and Maris ( played by Barry Pepper ) chasing Babe Ruth's single season home run record.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.