Chords for Don Henley & Garth Brooks Talk About Billy Joel - SiriusxM 2016
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This song is called The Entertainer and it's Billy's commentary on the music business.
Now the Eagles had put out an album in 1973 called Desperado which was our commentary on
the music business but Billy sums it all up in one song.
Back then in those days both radio
and record companies didn't like it if a song was longer than two minutes and 50 seconds
or [Db] maybe three minutes if you were lucky [Eb] you could stretch it to three.
[C] So even though Bob Dylan had broken that rule way back in 1965 with a song called
Like a Rolling Stone which was six minutes and [E] 13 seconds long even then the radio stations
wouldn't play the whole song until public outcry forced them to play it but in 1973 and 74 that
two minute and 50 second rule was still in place.
So Billy says in a couple of lines here in The
[Eb] Entertainer if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit so they cut it down to 305.
And I know exactly what he's talking about because somebody at our record company took
Best of My Love and cut a piece of it [C] out one night in the studio without even telling us
about it we were on tour and imagine our surprise when we heard it on the radio
and it was a terrible clumsy edit.
So we found out who did it and we made a plaque for him we took a
45 rpm record and mounted it on a gold plaque with a hacksaw and put a [Dbm] nice piece of glass
in [D] it in a frame and snuck into the record company [B] offices one night and bolted it to the wall.
It was [Eb] called the Golden Hacksaw Award and so here's Billy Joel commenting on that kind of
stuff in the record business with his song The [F] Entertainer.
This next song is the last song that
Billy wrote and recorded during his illustrious career and at this point in time he was sick of
music business his marriage [Eb] was on the rocks and this is him just saying I'm done and I can
certainly understand the sentiment sometimes but [Db] there are millions of us who hope Billy that you're
not done we hope [D] for more songs from you [Db] and I hope to write some of [Eb] those songs with you but anyway
this song gets right to the point and it's called Famous Last Words.
One of the greatest things
that Billy Joel is the master of is entertainment.
I've [F] seen him live in Long Island I've seen that
feature I've seen live from Yankee [A] Stadium the last play in Shea and then of course his trip
to Russia [Eb] and the whole Leningrad song [N] just kills me.
This guy is a songwriter that wrote from his
heart when he was 18 he wrote from his heart when he was 30, 40, 50 as a father as a husband
I'm not sure you're going to get a better look into Billy Joel as a mature adult a father
and a lover of his children more than you will in Leningrad.
The thing with Only the Good Die Young
I think it was written and I think people hear it as a teenage song about this guy trying to
convince this girlfriend to you know to kind of break the rules that she was raised on because
this guy's kind of a hoodlum in the in the in the song and you know it's the it's the super sweet
girl and the hoodlum that doesn't deserve her getting together it's the classic story.
Where Only the Good Die Young comes into my life and to all my guys around me
it's an anthem it's an anthem for those guys that you lost it's an anthem for those buddies those
pals that you don't see anymore and I know Billy Joel's lyrics don't reflect that but I have to
think somewhere deep in my mind that if Billy Joel didn't mean for it to be an anthem he soon realized
that it would forever be an anthem for guys that you're never going to see again yet when you close
your eyes you [G] see them every day.
Only the Good [F] Die Young.
Billy Joel is a writer as a performer
he's unequaled.
I wonder sometimes with artists that perform so well and sing so well if maybe
their writing gets overlooked.
Billy Joel's writing is nothing short of phenomenal one of the greatest
song men of our lives past and future.
So when people ask me about a song called Shameless
which was a huge huge song for our career written by one of the greatest writers ever I always tell
them that the Garth Brooks version is my second favorite version the original version of Shameless
just kills me off one of the greatest Billy Joel records ever Stormfront.
Here's Shameless.
When you talk about uh Billy Joel and the music and how it kind of sets you in certain moods
there's a million different Billy Joel records for a million different moods
but Stiletto oh my gosh Stiletto is just it's its own mood and you know you can play these you
used to assemble when we were kids you know you'd assemble songs that all kind of fit together for
certain moods you were in all through college and your young adult life and it's funny man Stiletto
fit in all of them [E] and nothing else fit around it.
On everybody's top 10 list is going to be Piano Man
it [N] just is and you know I played it in the bars when I was 17 18 years old when they'd let you
play in there and it's funny you played for however many people it didn't matter if it was 10 it was
100 if it was a packed house if it was empty the response is all the same to Billy Joel's Piano Man
now so many years later so many tours later I can promise you this and guarantee you this if you've
seen a Garth Brooks show in the last month you've heard Piano Man the song is timeless the artist is
Now the Eagles had put out an album in 1973 called Desperado which was our commentary on
the music business but Billy sums it all up in one song.
Back then in those days both radio
and record companies didn't like it if a song was longer than two minutes and 50 seconds
or [Db] maybe three minutes if you were lucky [Eb] you could stretch it to three.
[C] So even though Bob Dylan had broken that rule way back in 1965 with a song called
Like a Rolling Stone which was six minutes and [E] 13 seconds long even then the radio stations
wouldn't play the whole song until public outcry forced them to play it but in 1973 and 74 that
two minute and 50 second rule was still in place.
So Billy says in a couple of lines here in The
[Eb] Entertainer if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit so they cut it down to 305.
And I know exactly what he's talking about because somebody at our record company took
Best of My Love and cut a piece of it [C] out one night in the studio without even telling us
about it we were on tour and imagine our surprise when we heard it on the radio
and it was a terrible clumsy edit.
So we found out who did it and we made a plaque for him we took a
45 rpm record and mounted it on a gold plaque with a hacksaw and put a [Dbm] nice piece of glass
in [D] it in a frame and snuck into the record company [B] offices one night and bolted it to the wall.
It was [Eb] called the Golden Hacksaw Award and so here's Billy Joel commenting on that kind of
stuff in the record business with his song The [F] Entertainer.
This next song is the last song that
Billy wrote and recorded during his illustrious career and at this point in time he was sick of
music business his marriage [Eb] was on the rocks and this is him just saying I'm done and I can
certainly understand the sentiment sometimes but [Db] there are millions of us who hope Billy that you're
not done we hope [D] for more songs from you [Db] and I hope to write some of [Eb] those songs with you but anyway
this song gets right to the point and it's called Famous Last Words.
One of the greatest things
that Billy Joel is the master of is entertainment.
I've [F] seen him live in Long Island I've seen that
feature I've seen live from Yankee [A] Stadium the last play in Shea and then of course his trip
to Russia [Eb] and the whole Leningrad song [N] just kills me.
This guy is a songwriter that wrote from his
heart when he was 18 he wrote from his heart when he was 30, 40, 50 as a father as a husband
I'm not sure you're going to get a better look into Billy Joel as a mature adult a father
and a lover of his children more than you will in Leningrad.
The thing with Only the Good Die Young
I think it was written and I think people hear it as a teenage song about this guy trying to
convince this girlfriend to you know to kind of break the rules that she was raised on because
this guy's kind of a hoodlum in the in the in the song and you know it's the it's the super sweet
girl and the hoodlum that doesn't deserve her getting together it's the classic story.
Where Only the Good Die Young comes into my life and to all my guys around me
it's an anthem it's an anthem for those guys that you lost it's an anthem for those buddies those
pals that you don't see anymore and I know Billy Joel's lyrics don't reflect that but I have to
think somewhere deep in my mind that if Billy Joel didn't mean for it to be an anthem he soon realized
that it would forever be an anthem for guys that you're never going to see again yet when you close
your eyes you [G] see them every day.
Only the Good [F] Die Young.
Billy Joel is a writer as a performer
he's unequaled.
I wonder sometimes with artists that perform so well and sing so well if maybe
their writing gets overlooked.
Billy Joel's writing is nothing short of phenomenal one of the greatest
song men of our lives past and future.
So when people ask me about a song called Shameless
which was a huge huge song for our career written by one of the greatest writers ever I always tell
them that the Garth Brooks version is my second favorite version the original version of Shameless
just kills me off one of the greatest Billy Joel records ever Stormfront.
Here's Shameless.
When you talk about uh Billy Joel and the music and how it kind of sets you in certain moods
there's a million different Billy Joel records for a million different moods
but Stiletto oh my gosh Stiletto is just it's its own mood and you know you can play these you
used to assemble when we were kids you know you'd assemble songs that all kind of fit together for
certain moods you were in all through college and your young adult life and it's funny man Stiletto
fit in all of them [E] and nothing else fit around it.
On everybody's top 10 list is going to be Piano Man
it [N] just is and you know I played it in the bars when I was 17 18 years old when they'd let you
play in there and it's funny you played for however many people it didn't matter if it was 10 it was
100 if it was a packed house if it was empty the response is all the same to Billy Joel's Piano Man
now so many years later so many tours later I can promise you this and guarantee you this if you've
seen a Garth Brooks show in the last month you've heard Piano Man the song is timeless the artist is
Key:
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This song is called The Entertainer and it's Billy's commentary on the music business.
Now the Eagles had put out an album in 1973 called Desperado which was our commentary on
the music business but Billy sums it all up in one song.
Back then in those days both radio
and record companies didn't like it if a song was longer than two minutes and 50 seconds
or [Db] maybe three minutes if you were lucky [Eb] you could stretch it to three.
[C] So even though Bob Dylan had broken that rule way back in 1965 with a song called
Like a Rolling Stone which was six minutes and [E] 13 seconds long even then the radio stations
wouldn't play the whole song until public outcry forced them to play it but in 1973 and 74 that
two minute and 50 second rule was still in place.
So Billy says in a couple of lines here in The
[Eb] Entertainer if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit so they cut it down to 305.
And I know exactly what he's talking about because somebody at our record company took
Best of My Love and cut a piece of it [C] out one night in the studio without even telling us
about it we were on tour and imagine our surprise when we heard it on the radio
and it was a terrible clumsy edit.
So we found out who did it and we made a plaque for him we took a
45 rpm record and mounted it on a gold plaque with a hacksaw and put a [Dbm] nice piece of glass
in [D] it in a frame and snuck into the record company [B] offices one night and bolted it to the wall.
It was [Eb] called the Golden Hacksaw Award and so _ here's Billy Joel commenting on that kind of
stuff in the record business with his song The [F] Entertainer.
This next song is the last song that
Billy wrote and recorded during his illustrious career and at this point in time he was sick of
music business his marriage [Eb] was on the rocks and this is him just saying I'm done and I can
certainly understand the sentiment sometimes but [Db] there are millions of us who hope Billy that you're
not done we hope [D] for more songs from you [Db] and I hope to write some of [Eb] those songs with you but anyway
this song gets right to the point and it's called Famous Last Words.
One of the greatest things
that Billy Joel is the master of is entertainment.
I've [F] seen him live in Long Island I've seen that
feature I've seen live from Yankee [A] Stadium the last play in Shea and then of course his trip
to Russia [Eb] and the whole Leningrad song [N] just kills me.
_ This guy is a songwriter that wrote from his
heart when he was 18 he wrote from his heart when he was 30, 40, 50 as a father as a husband
I'm not sure you're going to get a better look into Billy Joel as a mature adult a father
and a lover of his children more than you will in Leningrad.
The thing with Only the Good Die Young
I think it was written and I think people hear it as a teenage song about this guy trying to
convince this girlfriend to you know to kind of break the rules that she was raised on because
this guy's kind of a hoodlum in the in the in the song and you know it's the it's the super sweet
girl and the hoodlum that doesn't deserve her getting together it's the classic story.
Where Only the Good Die Young comes into my life and to all my guys around me
it's an anthem it's an anthem for those guys that you lost it's an anthem for those buddies those
pals that you don't see anymore and I know Billy Joel's lyrics don't reflect that but I have to
think somewhere deep in my mind that if Billy Joel didn't mean for it to be an anthem he soon realized
that it would forever be an anthem for guys that you're never going to see again yet when you close
your eyes you [G] see them every day.
Only the Good [F] Die Young.
Billy Joel is a writer as a performer
he's unequaled. _
I wonder sometimes with artists that perform so well and sing so well if maybe
their writing gets overlooked.
Billy Joel's writing is nothing short of phenomenal one of the greatest
song men of our lives past and future.
So when people ask me about a song called Shameless
which was a huge huge song for our career written by one of the greatest writers ever I always tell
them that the Garth Brooks version is my second favorite version the original version of Shameless
just kills me off one of the greatest Billy Joel records ever Stormfront.
Here's Shameless.
When you talk about uh Billy Joel and the music and how it kind of sets you in certain moods
there's a million different Billy Joel records for a million different moods
but Stiletto oh my gosh Stiletto is just it's its own mood and you know you can play these you
used to assemble when we were kids you know you'd assemble songs that all kind of fit together for
certain moods you were in all through college and your young adult life and it's funny man Stiletto
fit in all of them [E] and nothing else fit around it.
On everybody's top 10 list is going to be Piano Man
it [N] just is and you know I played it in the bars when I was 17 18 years old when they'd let you
play in there and it's funny you played for however many people it didn't matter if it was 10 it was
100 if it was a packed house if it was empty the response is all the same to Billy Joel's Piano Man
now so many years later so many tours later I can promise you this and guarantee you this if you've
seen a Garth Brooks show in the last month you've heard Piano Man the song is timeless the artist is
Now the Eagles had put out an album in 1973 called Desperado which was our commentary on
the music business but Billy sums it all up in one song.
Back then in those days both radio
and record companies didn't like it if a song was longer than two minutes and 50 seconds
or [Db] maybe three minutes if you were lucky [Eb] you could stretch it to three.
[C] So even though Bob Dylan had broken that rule way back in 1965 with a song called
Like a Rolling Stone which was six minutes and [E] 13 seconds long even then the radio stations
wouldn't play the whole song until public outcry forced them to play it but in 1973 and 74 that
two minute and 50 second rule was still in place.
So Billy says in a couple of lines here in The
[Eb] Entertainer if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit so they cut it down to 305.
And I know exactly what he's talking about because somebody at our record company took
Best of My Love and cut a piece of it [C] out one night in the studio without even telling us
about it we were on tour and imagine our surprise when we heard it on the radio
and it was a terrible clumsy edit.
So we found out who did it and we made a plaque for him we took a
45 rpm record and mounted it on a gold plaque with a hacksaw and put a [Dbm] nice piece of glass
in [D] it in a frame and snuck into the record company [B] offices one night and bolted it to the wall.
It was [Eb] called the Golden Hacksaw Award and so _ here's Billy Joel commenting on that kind of
stuff in the record business with his song The [F] Entertainer.
This next song is the last song that
Billy wrote and recorded during his illustrious career and at this point in time he was sick of
music business his marriage [Eb] was on the rocks and this is him just saying I'm done and I can
certainly understand the sentiment sometimes but [Db] there are millions of us who hope Billy that you're
not done we hope [D] for more songs from you [Db] and I hope to write some of [Eb] those songs with you but anyway
this song gets right to the point and it's called Famous Last Words.
One of the greatest things
that Billy Joel is the master of is entertainment.
I've [F] seen him live in Long Island I've seen that
feature I've seen live from Yankee [A] Stadium the last play in Shea and then of course his trip
to Russia [Eb] and the whole Leningrad song [N] just kills me.
_ This guy is a songwriter that wrote from his
heart when he was 18 he wrote from his heart when he was 30, 40, 50 as a father as a husband
I'm not sure you're going to get a better look into Billy Joel as a mature adult a father
and a lover of his children more than you will in Leningrad.
The thing with Only the Good Die Young
I think it was written and I think people hear it as a teenage song about this guy trying to
convince this girlfriend to you know to kind of break the rules that she was raised on because
this guy's kind of a hoodlum in the in the in the song and you know it's the it's the super sweet
girl and the hoodlum that doesn't deserve her getting together it's the classic story.
Where Only the Good Die Young comes into my life and to all my guys around me
it's an anthem it's an anthem for those guys that you lost it's an anthem for those buddies those
pals that you don't see anymore and I know Billy Joel's lyrics don't reflect that but I have to
think somewhere deep in my mind that if Billy Joel didn't mean for it to be an anthem he soon realized
that it would forever be an anthem for guys that you're never going to see again yet when you close
your eyes you [G] see them every day.
Only the Good [F] Die Young.
Billy Joel is a writer as a performer
he's unequaled. _
I wonder sometimes with artists that perform so well and sing so well if maybe
their writing gets overlooked.
Billy Joel's writing is nothing short of phenomenal one of the greatest
song men of our lives past and future.
So when people ask me about a song called Shameless
which was a huge huge song for our career written by one of the greatest writers ever I always tell
them that the Garth Brooks version is my second favorite version the original version of Shameless
just kills me off one of the greatest Billy Joel records ever Stormfront.
Here's Shameless.
When you talk about uh Billy Joel and the music and how it kind of sets you in certain moods
there's a million different Billy Joel records for a million different moods
but Stiletto oh my gosh Stiletto is just it's its own mood and you know you can play these you
used to assemble when we were kids you know you'd assemble songs that all kind of fit together for
certain moods you were in all through college and your young adult life and it's funny man Stiletto
fit in all of them [E] and nothing else fit around it.
On everybody's top 10 list is going to be Piano Man
it [N] just is and you know I played it in the bars when I was 17 18 years old when they'd let you
play in there and it's funny you played for however many people it didn't matter if it was 10 it was
100 if it was a packed house if it was empty the response is all the same to Billy Joel's Piano Man
now so many years later so many tours later I can promise you this and guarantee you this if you've
seen a Garth Brooks show in the last month you've heard Piano Man the song is timeless the artist is