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, 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.

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* 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.

* 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.

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

Both enjoyed a fair amount of success in doing so, perhaps most famously when Arguello knocked out former champion Billy Costello in four rounds.

The film, co-written by Billy Wilder, is a satirical comedy in which the famously serious actress ' laughing scene was heavily promoted by studio publicists with the tagline " Garbo Laughs!

In the same month they released what would turn out to be their biggest hit, a cover of " Hush " ( originally written by Joe South for Billy Joe Royal, and most famously performed by the British hard-rock band Deep Purple ), which peaked at number 2.

Hawkins was crowned by outgoing titleholder Amelia Vega from the Dominican Republic, after famously being announced by host Billy Bush as the " thunder from down under ".

* And perhaps most famously, when Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner were in the middle of their legendary 1970s era feuds, they did one with Martin saying, " Tastes great, George ", and Steinbrenner replying, " Less filling, Billy!

In both the Scott Pilgrim novels and movie, the protagonist Scott Pilgrim wears a zero shirt, identical to the one Billy Corgan famously wears ; he also wears a shirt bearing The Smashing Pumpkins logo, of which his initials ( S. P ) match.

The poem is influenced by the ballads of Rudyard Kipling and was often parodied, most famously by Billy Bennett as The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog.

Three dogs from the Duke of Hamilton's strain of Old English Bulldog, ' Wasp, Child, and Billy ,' were famously depicted in a painting and recognized as some of the last known members of the breed before they became extinct.

Wide receiver Drew Pearson was the leading receiver on the team with 48 receptions for 870 yards, while Pro Bowl tight end Billy Joe Dupree recorded 28 receptions for 347 yards and provided blocking support on running plays.

Billy the Fish plays for Fulchester United F. C.

Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy ( 1990 ) ( where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character ), Hero ( 1992 ) and Billy Bathgate ( 1991 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe ).

He broke into film roles with Billy Liar in which he plays the title character's boss.

Cal Ripken Jr. and brother Billy are owners of the Aberdeen IronBirds minor league baseball team, which plays at Ripken Stadium.

Kathi Wilcox plays in the Casual Dots and Billy Karren is in Ghost Mom.

Gold appeared in the 1985 film Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, as the reporter, Miss Sullivan, and the 2000 film Topsy-Turvy, as Rosina Brandram, one of the original Gilbert and Sullivan performers, who plays Katisha in The Mikado during the course of the story.

Gere plays a reclusive character called Billy, retreating from the world in an American pastoral, referencing Dylan's interest in American folk mythology and his performance in Sam Peckinpah's 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid ; the sequence also alludes to Dylan's period of exile living in Woodstock in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Actor Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, while Jonah Hill plays a fictional character based on Paul DePodesta ; Philip Seymour Hoffman plays A's manager, Art Howe.

* River City Ransom ( NES )-The Double Dragon theme music plays during the battle against Randy and Andy, two characters based on Billy and Jimmy.

Today, Billy plays guitar with Jerry's band, which tours throughout the country.

Billy Bones is based on a character who plays with fireworks in his bedroom like Kane played with his recording equipment as a teenager.

In the film, Hayden Christensen plays " Billy Quinn ", an apparent conglomeration of various characters but a look-alike of Bob Dylan.

By 1900, A Trip to Coontown finally stopped its production, and the partnership between Bob Cole and Billy Johnson ended due to either Johnson ’ s alcoholic nature, or Cole ’ s changing ideals in black musicals – he desired to test out another path in vaudeville plays and songwriting

It features Clark Kent / Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and plays like a normal black-and-white episode of the second season, with series semi-regulars Tristram Coffin ( as a government spokesman ) and Billy Nelson ( as a criminal.

Billy returns to his old frat house at the college, plays ball and asks for a job there.

Also speaking with Rue Morgue in the same issue, actor David Labiosa who plays Carla Moran's teenage son, Billy, revealed that Sidney J. Furie dropped an entire dream sequence and plot thread from The Entity which featured Carla being forced by the entity to have incestuous thoughts about her own son.

It is written in the form of plays or discussions between such characters as God, Jesus, Mark Twain, Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Billy Sunday, and Theodore Roosevelt.

He plays Hammond organ on the 2009 Bonnie Prince Billy album, Beware.

For example, Robert Wall, a villain in both Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon, plays a kickboxer named Carl Miller who must battle with Billy Lo.

As of 2008, Sim plays regularly with the Billy Hector Band, a seminal blues outfit from the New Jersey shore.

Several the film's crew are cast in the movie, most notably the cinematographer, Billy Williams ( perhaps best known for Ken Russell's film of Women of Love ), plays the gun-shooting, white-suited Englishman Sir Joshua Smith in the opening scenes of the attack at the Pedecaris villa.