Posted on 12/05/2009 1:42:47 PM PST by Justaham
Billy Joel’s 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincent’s 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 Joel’s 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. Vincent’s 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. She’s among several celebrities scheduled to appear in a tree-lighting ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange this Thursday.
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Even a mentally diminished Brian Wilson is more talented than Billy Joel ever was.
I'll agree that McCartney and Lennon were better together than apart.
That’s your criteria? Joel’s best known songs can be hummed by multiple generations even if they don’t know who the artist is. They pop up in jazz bars all the time.
That’s too bad. I’m sure every morning when she looked in the mirror and then looked at her mom and then looked her dad and just said... Damn!....
DNA can be so cruel sometimes.
She sounds like a lot of the “nice” girls, including my 23 yo daughters, out there trying so hard to find a “nice” guy.
I think that Paul McCartney and Leonard Bernstein would never openly criticize another artist whom they had no quarrel with. It would be bad manners and lead to negative publicity not all publicity is good publicity). They were probably just being nice. Were they on the same record label?
My comments about Brian Wilson related to Clemente claiming that he was overrated. The staying power of his music is an argument that not only his older fans, but young people today know and love his music. Music that will be remembered as something special for generations.
Billy Joel's "music" will be forgotten within a generation. In another five or ten years they won't even play it on oldies stations.
No they were not on the same label. And Bernstein called pop music garbage all the time. Joel has actually been denigrated as “A Classical musician’s idea of a Rock and Roller.” I take that as a compliment. I couldn’t care less about ‘authentic’ or ‘inauthentic’ rock.
That slate article was a piece of junk with glaring factual and logical errors. Rosenbaum does nothing but go over ‘lyrical attitudes’ and doesn’t seem to understand what actually makes Joel’s work worthwhile (a sense of melody and song structure after Irving Berlin and Burt Bacharach). Also, the guy seems to think that all of Joel’s songs were written at about the same time by a Rich Rock Star. Up until the late 1970s, Joel was basically a struggling musician. If not for Barbara Streisand’s timely cover of ‘NY State of Mind’ he may actually have been dropped from Columbia records.
He’s basically a writer of Broadway showtunes. If you don’t like that aesthetic fine. You’ve obviously disliked Joel’s music for a long time but the qualities I went over are there. Most of his boomer contemporaries are playing county fairs these days. Joel is still huge with multiple age groups for a reason.
Didn’t say he was. Jazzbos incorpoate pop tunes into their repertiore all the time. Well, NY State of Mind is a Jazz standard. What music from Joel’s generation WILL be played on Oldies stations in 10 years?
They don't even have to suffer from depression, just living alone even tho you might have siblings who traditionally invite you over for Christmas Eve dinner then Christmas day.........
You still go to bed alone on Christmas eve and spend Christmas morning and afternoon alone.........
yes it was, especially if you lived in a small town and your dad was several hundred miles away.
The mother ... well, the mother seems to like her drama and attention, too. Poor kid really never had a chance. I’ve come to see Brinkley as despicable. So now it sounds like her dad is, too. She looks more like dad than mom, which had to be difficult.
I would pray that she find peace in her heart. It has to be a terrible thing living in that bubble, despite the worldly possessions and celebrity, and even the talent.
Just another reason to hate Babs.
Seriously, if you want to admit that Billy Joel's music is a guilty pleasure of yours, I can go along with that. We all have guilty pleasures. He is not however, a musical genius.
I would pray that she find peace in her heart. It has to be a terrible thing living in that bubble, despite the worldly possessions and celebrity, and even the talent.
Yeah, I feel her pain too!
Mansions, private schools, tons of money, people treating her like royalty because of her famous parents, God it must be awful! Does you empathy know no bounds? She has more of a "chance" than most people will ever have.
Her butt ugly father was able to score Christie Brinkley, so looks don't count for everything.
or to light up your smoke, but there's someplace that he'd rather be.
There’s nothing guilty about it. Joel is a melodic genius. Even his critics admit it. Look over his list of hits and you’d be shocked by how many you can hum. Benny Anderson is a melodic genius as well. So is Andrew Lloyd Webber among various other unhip personae.
I don't know. I mean, she IS his daughter. I thought of her as Christie's daughter... Just dumb thinking on my part.
Didn’t he once smash his car around a tree and Christie wanted him to not have partial custody of Alexa because of it?
“He said it in a documentary about ‘The Stranger’ record.”
Well, of course, if he says that’s what he meant, he may have meant it, I guess.
However, if I had ever written a song that even seemed to carry a hateful message about millions of people, and then got publicly questioned about it, I surely would want to have a good answer too! (LOL)
Actually, I did write a song that insulted a religion once... but I could get beheaded for it if it ever got famous! Catholics don’t do that, They might just stop buying records if someone offends them and doesn’t apologize.
“well, the mother seems to like her drama and attention, “
Yes (sigh) there is a lot of this in show business, unfortunately.
I do pray for peace in the young lady’ heart.
Also for Billy. (Not to sound like Counsellor Troi) but I sense a lot of anger in his music.
I was speaking of a chance at inner peace and serenity. A suicide attempt doesn’t reflect inner peace, imo.
With two self-centered celebrity parents, a kid gets left in the dust. Maybe I have whacked out values, but I think a kid is better off with caring, attentive parents than with mansions, private schools, nannies, and the other accouterments of wealth. Having both would be nice, tho.
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