What has Billy Joel ever said about politics?
It’s subtle.
Again, he means well. He thinks he is for the “common man”. He won’t let the tickets for his concerts be scalped because he doesn’t want his common fans gauged. We can appreciate that.
Watch the video for Allentown. He doesn’t understand what caused the loss of manufacturing jobs and the middle class lifestyle...he just reports on the outcome...but he plays a great piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT65C7ywLs
The Dean of Admissions at Muhlenberg in Allentown didn’t appreciate me referencing the song at our interview in 1986. How am I gonna make a living without a Muhlenberg education?
Now, if anyone can find the original Nylon Curtain back sleeve of the album cover showing Billy smoking a cigarette, I’ll believe he is not part of the liberal conspiracy.
The Ministry of Truth on google has deleted it from history.
Last year, Billy Joel did an anti-Iraq war Christmas song. And this year, he played with Springsteen at an ACORN hopenchange rally for B. Hussein in New York City.
Before that, he never really said or did anything overtly political.