Posted on 12/05/2009 1:42:47 PM PST by Justaham
Billy Joels 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincents Hospital in Manhattan today after allegedly ingesting a large number of sleeping pills in what police consider a suicide attempt, The Post has learned.
Medics were called to Alexa Ray Joels apartment at 19 Bethune St. apartment in the West Village at approximately 12:21 p.m. this afternoon, sources told The Post. The 911 call came from a roommate who reported that Joel had taken too many sleeping pills, sources said.
Joel was conscious at St. Vincents Hospital, and is expected to survive. Joel is the only daughter of piano man Billy Joel and his supermodel wife, Christie Brinkley. Brinkley and Joel married in 1984, and divorced in 1994.
A prolific songwriter since her young teens, Alexa Joel is also a talented pianist and singer. Shes among several celebrities scheduled to appear in a tree-lighting ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange this Thursday.
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LOL! Got Kid Rock’s All Summer Long?
Thanks. I so enjoy Billy Joel’s Only The Good Die Young.
You know, this is really easy.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOV78Pi358
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAP8hpx7E0
Hmmm. I don’t understand my Faith. Interesting. You really have no clue.
This song, Billy Joel’s Only the Good Die Young, was one of the songs I really related to as a teen/college student. I wasn’t some geek or loser or any of the other terms that could describe those without a social life that never had the opportunity to have sex or be in a relationship. I was a good student, athlete, social butterfly, popular in high school and college, who chose to not have sex before marriage. All the jokes about Catholic girls, I got that, since I was a Catholic girl who practiced the faith.
If you’re honest, you’d see that the words to this song are pretty on target in the general sense.
The song isn’t Anti- Catholic at all.
It’s not easy for me.
Thanks for those videos.
Especially the second one. It’s been a while since I saw that.
You are either willfully ignorant or just not sharp enough to understand when someone is putting down your faith. Your admission that you like Kid Rock makes me think you are not sharp enough.
I don’t like the Howard film either (didn’t bother with the books or 2nd film).
“Don’t forget your second wind”
Clever you...
"Happy birthday honey I love you."But istead I woke her up with the sad news that her best friend had just died and I had to get to the Hospital to be with Gary, her husband. Needless to say my wife had a terrible birthday, compounded by the fact that just two weeks earlier she lost another close friend an older woman she had really gotten close to.
Oh man, that’s a bad one. I’m sorry.
Then I guess it’s a good thing that your opinion doesn’t matter to me.
I like quite a few of Billy Joel’s songs. When I read about his daughter’s overdose, first song that came to my mind was Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel). I recall him writing it for her years ago (not sure how accurate that is) and I always thought it was such a beautiful song.
I like what I like when it comes to music, movies, tv, etc.
Yesterday, we were discussing Pearl Harbor, and a few of my students immediately brought up the movie “Pearl Harbor” and I didn’t enjoy that movie, lol.
He’s the closest thing the Rock Era has had to an Irving Berlin/ George M Cohan type. He’d be famous even if he didn’t sing at all. He’s written dozens of hit songs.
I remember when Joel played a concert in St Louis, the local Arch Bishop urged Joel not to play “Only The Good Die Young.”
Joel performed it twice.
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