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[111] Their daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was born December 29, 1985. Joel performed his classical piece titled, "Waltz No. [92][93] In October, Joel held a surprise concert on Long Island at The Paramount (Huntington, New York) to benefit Long Island Cares. Who is Elizabeth Ann Weber? The story of Billy Joel's first wife "Joel and his 'uptown girl' have a girl". Another well-known single from the album is the ballad "And So It Goes" (No. However, she left the industry shortly before marrying Joel in 2015. He is now holding the highest box office attendance of any artist to play at the arena. His breakout song happened to be his most famous, his hit "Piano Man". 27 while "Keeping the Faith" peaked at No. Elizabeth Ann Weber: What happened to Billy Joel's first wife? She was previously married to Billy' band member Jon Small and had a child. He changed the lyrics to "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" to make it relate to all the damage caused by Sandy. [21], Joel's parents met in the late 1930s at City College of New York at a Gilbert and Sullivan performance. Singer Pete Hewlett was brought in to hit the high notes on his most vocally challenging songs, like "An Innocent Man". While Joel was madly in love with Weber and wrote the songs Shes Got a Way and Shes Always a Woman" for her, Weber had no shame in directly asking him if she'd receive earnings on the backend for being his muse. Glass Houses spent six weeks at No. His five sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in 1980 earned him the Garden's Gold Ticket Award for selling more than 100,000 tickets at the venue. Billy is on his fourth marriage! Billy Joel Is Happily Married to 4th Wife Who Is 33 Years His Junior Not twice. [84] The song, titled "All My Life", was Joel's newest single (with second track "You're My Home", live from Madison Square Garden 2006 tour) and was released into stores on February 27, 2007. The journalism major was not a fan of the Storm Front singer at the time, telling New York Magazine: My mom played a lot of Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, and the Rolling Stones, but I didnt know much of Billys music, she recalls. Roderick is an accomplished equestrian. "It was like he couldn't not be 'Billy Joel' at that moment," Roderick told the New Yorker. However, Joel and Brinkley's marriage had major challenges. Joel has stated that he wanted the album to communicate his feelings about the American Dream and how changes in American politics during the Reagan years meant that "all of a sudden you weren't going to be able to inherit [the kind of life] your old man had.