#JUST THE WAY YOU ARE LYRICS BILLY JOEL FULL#

The saxophone solo was played by Phil Woods, a well-known jazz performer and Grammy award winner.

#JUST THE WAY YOU ARE LYRICS BILLY JOEL FULL#

The single version (fading 8 seconds later) was included in the first release of Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, but the full album version was restored for the remastered release of that compilation. On February 18, 1978, the song peaked at #3, and Joel performed a shorter version of the song as the musical guest that day on Saturday Night Live (along with ' Only the Good Die Young'). A live performance of the song was also used as a music video. The differences are the removal of the second verse and an earlier fade.

When 'Just the Way You Are' was released as a single, it was shortened by over a minute. He noted that during performances of the song around the time of his first divorce, his drummer Liberty DeVitto would jokingly parody the lyrics in the chorus as 'She got the house. ДЄfter Joel and Weber divorced in 1982, Joel rarely performed the song live after 1986 until the 2000s, and Joel has publicly stated that he disliked playing the song live in the wake of his divorce from his first wife. The song also shares some similarities to ' I'm Not in Love' by 10cc, due to the keyboard and background vocal tape loops Joel and Ramone used.

However, the album's producer, Phil Ramone, later contradicted Joel's claim, stating in an interview that they could not afford to exclude the song because Joel did not have that much material from which to choose for the album. The song, which Joel had written for his first wife (and also his business manager at the time) Elizabeth Weber, was not liked by either Joel or his band, and Joel had originally decided against making the track a part of The Stranger, but at the request of both Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow (both were recording in other studios in the same building at the time), he agreed to put the song on the final mix. In an interview on the Howard Stern Radio Show on November 16, 2010, Joel revealed that the inspiration for writing the name of the song and how it sounds in the chorus was directly taken from the last line in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song ' Rag Doll' which incidentally was also a larger inspiration for Joel's later song, ' Uptown Girl'. The rest is history.Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming. In the end, he made the song singular, and by the time the music video rolled around, he was dating Brinkley. Originally, the song was called 'Uptown Girls,' which encompassed his experience dating not only MacPherson and Brinkley but also another woman who preceded them. But in fact, the song was about Joel's love affair with MacPherson - and then some. 'Uptown Girl' and 'And So It Goes' were inspired by Elle MacPhersonД«rinkley famously appeared as the love interest in Joel's 'Uptown Girl' music video, so everyone naturally assumed the song was inspired by her. After rumors spread that Joel was cheating, which Joel denied, the marriage fell apart, and the couple called it quits in 1994. Because the Piano Man had suffered a huge financial setback from his legal battle with Frank, he was forced to go on tour nonstop, which created distance between him and his supermodel wife. However, Joel and Brinkley's marriage had major challenges. He also wrote 'This Is the Time' for her - a song that imagines a couple reminiscing about their best days together. The couple married in 1985 and Joel's album An Innocent Man was inspired by his relationship with Brinkley. вЂњWhat a family to pick.вЂќ Supermodel Christie Brinkley inspired 'This Is the Time' and the album 'An Innocent Man' вЂњI hooked up with the Borgias!вЂќ Joel said in his official biography. Later, the singer discovered Frank that had secretly stolen tens of millions from him, causing Joel to sue Weber for $30 million in compensatory damages and $60 million in punitive damages, according to the Los Angeles Times. One year, for Weber's birthday, Joel wrote her the songВ вЂњJust the Way You Are,вЂќ and after he played it for her she said, 'Do I get the publishing, too?'Д«efore the couple divorced in 1982, Joel made the grave mistake of allowing Weber's brother, Frank, also work for him. While Joel was madly in love with Weber and wrote the songs вЂњSheвЂ™s Got a WayвЂќ and вЂњSheвЂ™s Always a Woman' for her, Weber had no shame in directly asking him if she'd receive earnings on the backend for being his muse. She convinced him to let her manage him, and the couple married in 1973.

Just the way you are lyrics billy joel