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The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
"The Ballad of Billy the Kid" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel from the album '' Piano Man''. It was also issued as a single in the UK backed with "If I Only Had The Words (To Tell You)". Artistic license The song is Joel's fictionalized version of the story of Billy the Kid. In an interview from 1975, Joel admitted, "Basically he songwas an experiment with an impressionist type of lyric. It was historically totally inaccurate as a story." Examples of these inaccuracies include when Joel sings that Billy the Kid was "from a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia" and that "he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma". The real Billy the Kid never robbed a bank and although his birthplace is uncertain, no account suggests that he was from West Virginia. The song also says that Billy the Kid was captured and hanged, with many people attending the hanging; in reality, he was shot and killed by Pat Garrett. Background In the last verse of the song, the lyrics switch fro ...
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Billy Joel
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Piano Man" after his Signature song, signature 1973 song Piano Man (song), of the same name, Joel has had a successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s. From 1971 to 1993, he released 12 studio albums spanning the genres of pop and rock, and in 2001 released a one-off studio album of classical compositions. With over 160 million records sold worldwide, Joel is one of the world's List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists and is the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States. His 1985 compilation album, ''Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II'', is one of the List of best-selling albums in the United States, best-selling albums in the United States. Joel was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Hicksville, New York, Hicksville on Long Island, where he began taking piano lessons at his mothe ...
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Attila (rock Band)
Attila was an American rock duo from New York City, most notable for having featured a young Billy Joel. History Billy Joel and Jon Small broke away from their band the Hassles and formed Attila in 1969. The instrumentation was organ and drums, with Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, similar to the Doors' Ray Manzarek. Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth, whom he later married, although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's 1987 '' Концерт'' video and the 2011 '' Live at Shea Stadium'' performance. Small became a music video director for artists such as Run DMC, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and Travis Tritt. ''Attila'' album Their only album, ''Attila'', was released on July 27, 1970. No singles were released from the album and it did not chart. Joel himself has described the album as "psychedelic bullshit". The track "Amplifier Fire, Part 1 (Godzilla)" would later appear o ...
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The Seattle Times
''The Seattle Times'' is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891, ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region. The Seattle Times Company, which owns and publishes the paper, is mostly owned by the Blethen family, which holds 50.5% of the company; the other 49.5% is owned by the McClatchy Company. The Blethen family has owned and operated the newspaper since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' had a longstanding rivalry with the '' Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' until the latter ceased print publication in 2009. ''The Seattle Times'' has received 11 Pulitzer Prizes and is widely renowned for its investigative journalism. History ''The Seattle Times'' originated as the ''Seattle Press-Times'', a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the ''Seattle Daily Times'', it ...
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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The Vindicator
''The Vindicator'' is a daily newspaper serving Youngstown, Ohio, United States and the Mahoning County region as well as southern Trumbull County and northern Columbiana County. ''The Vindicator'' was established in 1869. As of September 1, 2019, ''The Vindicator'' is owned by Ogden Newspapers Inc. of Wheeling, West Virginia. The '' Tribune Chronicle'' and ''The Vindicator'' are published by Charles Jarvis, with Brenda Linert as editor. The new owners of ''The Vindicator'' announced a welcome to the new version of the Vindicator. History (1869–1984) The paper began in 1869 when it launched as ''The Mahoning Vindicator''. The paper became the ''Youngstown Vindicator'' shortly after. During the 1920s, Ku Klux Klan members began protesting outside of then owner William F. Maag, Jr.'s house in response to the paper's reporting of local KKK activities. Its reporting on the KKK, the mafia, political corruption, and big business matters garnered the paper a reputation of fearless ...
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The Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United States, the paper's readership has declined since 2010. It has also been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff ...
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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'', previously known as ''The Rolling Stone Record Guide'', is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. Its first edition was published in 1979 and its last in 2004. First edition (1979) ''The Rolling Stone Record Guide'' was the first edition of what would later become ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide''. It was edited by Dave Marsh (who wrote a large majority of the reviews) and John Swenson, and included contributions from 34 other music critics. It is divided into sections by musical genre and then lists artists alphabetically within their respective genres. Albums are also listed alphabetically by artist although some of the artists have their careers divided into chronological periods. Dave Marsh, in his Introduction, cites as precedents Leonard Maltin's book '' TV movies'' and Robert Christgau's review column in the '' Village Voice''. He gives '' Phonolog'' and ''Schwan ...
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12 Gardens Live
''12 Gardens Live'' is the fourth live album by American singer/songwriter Billy Joel, recorded during a former record run of 12 sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City in early 2006. It was released on June 13, 2006. Although some of the singer's best known hits are on the album, several are transposed into a lower key to accommodate Joel's maturing vocal range. This is also the first time Joel's signature song " Piano Man" has appeared on a live CD. Track listing All songs written by Billy Joel. Disc one # " Prelude/Angry Young Man"  – 5:21 † # " My Life" – 4:59 † # " Everybody Loves You Now" – 3:04 † # " The Ballad of Billy the Kid" – 5:30 † # " The Entertainer" – 4:01 † # "Vienna" – 3:35 † # " New York State of Mind" – 7:05 † # " The Night Is Still Young" – 5:13 # "Zanzibar" – 5:57 † # " Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" – 5:03 † # "The Great Wall of ...
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Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ...
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The Concert
A concert is a form of musical performance. Concert may also refer to: Books * ''The Concert'' (play), 1909 play and basis for later films * ''The Concert'' (Kadare), 1988 novel ' by Ismail Kadare Film and television * ''The Concert'' (1921 film), a lost 1921 silent comedy film * ''The Concert'' (1931 film), a 1931 German comedy film * ''The Concert'' (1961 film), an Australian film *'' Le Concert'', a 2009 film directed by Radu Mihăileanu Music *House concert, a private live music event * ''The Concert'' (ballet), a 1956 ballet by Jerome Robbins Albums * ''The Concert'' (Creedence Clearwater Revival album), 1980 * ''The Concert'' (Barbra Streisand album), 1994 *'' Concert: The Cure Live'', a 1984 album by The Cure *'' Kontsert'' or ''Концерт'', a 1987 album by Billy Joel * ''Concerts'' (Keith Jarrett album), a 1981 album by Keith Jarrett * ''Concerts'' (Henry Cow album), a 1976 album by Henry Cow * ''Le concert'' (Alain Souchon and Laurent Voulzy album), 2016 * ''Le c ...
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She's Got A Way
She or S.H.E. may refer to: Language * She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English Places * She County, Anhui ** She Prefecture, 589-1121 * She County, Hebei * She River, or Sheshui, Hubei * Shetland Islands, IIGA country code People * She people ** She Chinese, a Sinitic language ** She language, a Hmong–Mien language, Guangdong * She (surname) * She (Qi) (died 613 BC), ruler * Empress She (died 397), Later Qin dynasty Literature and films * '' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard, and its film adaptations ** ''She'' (1911 film), a silent short film featuring Marguerite Snow ** ''She'' (1916 film), a silent film produced in the UK ** ''She'' (1917 film), a silent film starring Valeska Suratt ** ''She'' (1925 film), a silent film starring Betty Blythe ** ''She'' (1935 film), featuring Helen Gahagan ** ''She'' (1965 film), starring Ursula Andress ** ''She'' (1984 film), starring San ...
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