Billy Joel was also sincere in saying that he no longer releases new songs because he has lost inspiration.
About to complete 60 years of career, Billy Joel owns one of the most successful careers in music history. The singer and pianist is the seventh best-selling artist in the United States of all time, with 85 million copies in his native country alone – among those in a solo career, he is the fourth, behind only garth brooks (1st), Elvis Presley (2nd) and Michael Jackson (3rd).
To build such an acclaimed trajectory in this area, it is necessary, above all, to have good music. And there’s no denying thatJoelhas a neat catalog, full of hits released in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
However, during an interview with Los Angeles Times, the artist was sincere in saying that he does not like several songs that he himself chose to release on the discs. He’s so aware of this that he even mentions some examples of less inspired tracks.
I’ve done some pretty bad things that I wish I could take back. As ‘When in Rome’ (from the 1989 album Storm Front) and ‘C’était Toi (You Were the One)’ (from the 1980 album Glass Houses). I don’t even speak French, I don’t know what I was doing there.”
But why, in the end, Joel ended up releasing these songs? He answers himself:
“Sometimes I would come up with six or seven songs that I thought were really good, but in the end I had to get a few songs together just to complete the record.”
Billy Joel no new songs
Another point raised in the interview was the fact that Billy Joel to be years without releasing unpublished songs. Your latest singles, “All My Life” It is “Christmas in Fallujah”are from 2007. The last album with his voice, River of Dreamscame out in 1993 – he even released an album in 2001 called Fantasies & Delusionsbut the material features only erudite compositions created by Joel and performed on the piano by Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
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And this is not the case for an artist who is practically retired: Billy performs frequently and is even on a tour of the United States. Again sincere, the artist said he lost the inspiration to create new music.
“I no longer had the same motivation. You need inspiration to create good music and if you don’t have it, don’t worry: stop pushing. It became excruciating to compose, the pleasure in doing it is gone.”
Source: Rollingstone
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