Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. It was released on September 29, 1983, on his ninth studio album An Innocent Man (1983). The lyrics describe a working-class 'downtown man' attempting to woo a wealthy 'uptown girl'. Play and download Uptown Girl by Billy Joel - and other songs including My Life, Piano Man, Captain Jack. Best known for his first hit song, ‘Piano Man’, in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States. About Uptown Girl 'Uptown Girl' is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel. Watch Christie talk about it on Howard Stern in 2015 (video also posted below).
Billy and his mates begin serenading the uptown girl, and soon she gives in to his working class charms. Brinkley's limousine pulls in for a fill-up.
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She’s been living in her white bred worldīilly Joel’s official YouTube channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. In the video, Billy is a grease monkey at a run-down garage when Ms. Uptown Girl - Billy Joel - Madison Square Garden 12/18/14.
Watch more of Billy Joel’s official music videos Girls can dream, right We happily shared in each other’s joy as we both had the opportunity to see Billy Joel at MSG in 2018, about two months apart. Watch the official music video for ‘Uptown Girl’, which became a Top 10 hit in the US that year. And we dreamed of running away for a year to be roadie for Billy Joel. In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces Joel’s musical history through his teenage years in the late ’50s and early ’60s.