Talk:Piano Man (song)

message: It seems Billy Joel plays this song in a lower key in the recent years. Could someone confirm which key is it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.57.176.82 (talk) 21:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower key 

message: This needs NPOVing to all hell. Djbrianuk 22:48, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The current version says the song is a slow 6/8 time.  However, anyone listening to the song will notice it has a strong beat every 3 beats, more characteristic of 3/4 time. Technically this is original research, so i wont edit it, but if anyone wants to cite a reliable source for it, go ahead 70.48.0.59 (talk) 07:38, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time signature inaccuracy 

message: "Joel's early career was as a piano player in bars." I don't think this is the case. Joel only played at the Executive Room for six months while he was sitting out a bad record company contract. Otherwise, there's no mention of him being a piano player in bars, though that's certainly his reputation.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.86.23.99 (talk) 15:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that by now all the puffery has been edited out... -- PKtm 19:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Very Accurate 

message: I know it's not there yet, but I added an infobox, updated a link, and added more material
jj 19:57, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well, It's a start 

message: While reading the overview of this song, I couldn't help but see that it says "Piano Man" was created during the time of Billy Joel's "lounge singing in Los Angeles".  Being a native of the city of Troy, NY, I find it hard not to state where this song actually came from.  It was made about a bar called the "Hendrick Hudson Hotel Bar" in Troy, NY.  Look it up.  Ask Billy Joel.  My older relatives are friends with many of the people mentioned in the song and they would have no problem telling anyone their real last names. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lilmick7 (talk • contribs) 00:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check the History 

message: This song was written LONG before he went over to the west coast, my aunt's good friend dated joel's bass guitarist and it is said that the song is written about an English pub in Huntington, NY near Cold Spring Harbor. The name of the pub is "Canerbury Ales" and it was located (when the song was written) on New York Avenue just south of Main Street.
I think that the notion that the song was written about a bar in LA is highly inaccurate. I would enjoy to see hard evidence of that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FloppyDiskMan (talk • contribs) 14:48, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Los Angeles!? 

message: "Now Paul is a real estate novelist"
Anybody knows what the expression "real estate novelist" means? hey i'm doing a asyment on can simeone help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phoenix7731 (talk • contribs) 07:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real estate novelist 

message: i'm am stuck on the queston why did he writtte it and what is the main message?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.67.216.59 (talk) 05:59, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  don't know  

message: I added in composition that there's also a mandolin in the song. I think, very lightly, there is an acoustic guitar, but that could be the piano playing softly.
Those Kids (talk) 09:38, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composition

message: In one section of the article it says
"Piano Man" is a fictionalized retelling of real people Joel met during his days as a piano-lounge(etc)
BUT
in another section it says
Joel admitted on Inside the Actors Studio that each of the characters in the song is based on a real person, either a friend of his or another stranger at the bar.
If it is based on a real person it can not be fictionalized  --Kopicz (talk) 01:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure it can. People write fiction based upon real people all the time. Jpcohen (talk) 00:28, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bit Confusing 

message: When I say, "performed the song in the original key for the first time in approximately a decade" (referring to when Joel received the Gershwin Prize in November 2014" I am unsure exactly when the last time before that was that he performed it in the original key. He performed it in the original key until 2003, when that leg of his F2F tours with Elton John completed. I don't believe Joel performed regularly again until 2006, and by then he had changed the key of Piano Man from C to B flat. So the key was lowered sometime between 2003 and 2006. So that's why I say "approximately a decade" because I'm unsure exactly what year.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.252.228.2 (talk) 15:23, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance in the original key a few years back 

message: Citations 6 and 11, the URL given is Youtube's home page. I believe 6 is supposed to point to How Billy Joel became the "Piano Man", but I can't find 11. —131.191.63.59 (talk) 05:44, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insufficiently specific citations