![]() ![]() But it’s become beloved, not just by Joel. When Billy Joel is asked to name his favorites of his own songs, “Vienna” is often cited. “He was never really happy because he didn’t become a musician,” Joel said the year after his dad died. Howard would live out the rest of his days in Vienna. “Because he left Germany in the first place because of this guy named Hitler - and he ends up going to the same place where Hitler hung out all those years.” But Howard loved his new life - he had remarried and had another son - and seemed happy to leave America and Billy behind. The two men lost touch until Joel was in his early 20s, discovering that his father was living in Austria, “which I thought was kinda bizarre,” Joel later told an audience. Joel’s parents split up when he was eight, his dad moving back to Europe. He said, ‘I’m a hack, I can’t play, I’m just doing it for me.’ And he’d say, ‘This is how I make my living in America: I work for G.E., and everything is plastic, American plastic.’” But he thought he was never good enough he never gave himself any slack. ![]() He could interpret them and make them sound as good as anything that was being played on WQXR radio or the records. “He would come home from work at General Electric and take Chopin and Bartok pieces and work through them laboriously this was his entertainment. “My father was my idol as a pianist as a kid, because he was classically trained and could read music,” Joel once said. Billy was born in 1949, growing up in a household filled with music. Born in Nuremberg in 1923, Howard fled Europe with his family to escape the Nazis, marrying Billy’s mother Rosalind after they first met while working on a production of The Pirates of Penzeance in New York in 1942. Read the full lyrics to Billy Joel’s “Vienna” below, courtesy of Genius.Billy Joel didn’t have the easiest relationship with his father. But how, exactly, does the show deliver what it promises (" everything")? To start, it features not-so-subtle jabs at our current administration, plus stellar music, a handsome cast, Gwyneth Paltrow in outrageously luxe gowns, and ridiculous lines such as the following: “It’s a pandemic of over-communication that’s led to an absence of intimacy.” Starring Ben Platt as Payton Hobart, the new dark comedy follows a neurotic teen fixated on becoming high school president. That’s the marketing slogan the Netflix folks have used all summer long to promote Ryan Murphy’s The Politician-and it makes sense. Warning: This story is riddled with spoilers.Which is why we’ve dug up what’s worth knowing about the final Billy Joel "Vienna" cover from episode eight. Other reasons we love the show? In addition to its spot-on campy humor, the music-from the opening credits “Chicago” theme song to Platt’s piano-accompanied “River” ballad-will make you emotional.They're just part of the reason we can't wait for for season 2. Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix show, The Politician, not only has an A-list ensemble (hello, Gwyneth Paltrow), but it’s also making stars out of newcomers like Theo Germaine, David Corenswet, Natasha Ofili, Rahne Jones, and Laura Dreyfuss.
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