Pretty obsessed with this profile of Billy Joel. One of many amazing excerpts: They’d met in a hotel bar on the island of St. Bart’s. He was fooling around on the piano, and Brinkley, along with the model Elle Macpherson and a nineteen-year-old Whitney Houston, gravitated to the little sunburned dynamo on the keys who was hamming it up for the girls. Brinkley sang the Portuguese lyrics of “The Girl from Ipanema.” Macpherson draped herself over the piano. Joel quietly thanked his mother for forcing him to take piano lessons. Houston said, “I’d like to sing,” but Joel, focussed on the supermodels, didn’t pay her much mind. Eventually, she persuaded him to play “Respect.” “She knocked it out of the park,” Brinkley recalled.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:41:30 +0000
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