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 '.

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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 ".

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

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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.

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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 ).

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.

* Billy Joel played a record of twelve sold-out concerts in a row at The Garden which were recorded on his 12 Gardens Live album.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

* Jackson ( song ), written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

* A New England, a song by Billy Bragg, famously covered by Kirsty MacColl

The song has been covered by artists such as Geri Halliwell, Megadeth, Jessica Simpson, Lil ' Kim, Little Birdy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faster Pussycat, KMFDM, Symarip, Operation Ivy and the Del Rubio Triplets and The Supremes.

Other leading acts included Billy Fury, Joe Brown, and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, whose 1960 hit song " Shakin ' All Over " became a rock and roll standard.

Bearden turned to music, co-writing the hit song Sea Breeze, which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie ; it is still considered a jazz classic.

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American electronic pop duo, Microfilm, did a tribute song to Billy Mackenzie in 2009 titled " I'll Sing Like Billy Mackenzie in Heaven " which featured guitar and additional vocals by Scissor Sisters ' member Del Marquis.

The most famous recording of the song was credited to " Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet ", even though Murray did not sing on it.

The confusion, nonetheless, is so pervasive that, when " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top " Songs of the Century ", the song was credited to Billy Murray, implying his recording of it as having received the most votes among songs from the first decade.

The song has been used by as a National Anthem by the Scotland national rugby union team, ever since the winger, Billy Steele, encouraged his team-mates to sing it on the victorious Lions tour of South Africa in 1974.

Billy and Linden wrote the whole song and created a recorded demo all in one afternoon without either Dusty or Frank even knowing about it.

Deborah Frost, writer for Rolling Stone magazine, described in her book ZZ Top – Bad And Worldwide how Linden Hudson researched popular song tempos, then presented Billy Gibbons with the results of his studies.

In 1903 the song was used by the Billy Tea company for use as an advertising jingle, making it nationally famous.

* " Omaha ", a song written by Billy Joe Shaver and recorded by Waylon Jennings in his 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes.