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Just the Way You Areby Billy Joel
Just the Way You Are
Billy Joel
First Spin
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- Jan 12, 2024
3:38 AMGuess who got tickets to Billy Joel at T-Mobile Park in May??Atticus - Feb 15, 2023
23:43 PMA '77 classic sampled by Pete Rock, Brand Nubian and Daft Punk. - Oct 21, 2021
15:03 PMDaft Punk sampled this song from Billy Joel's "The Stranger" in their song "High Fidelity." -- This won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 1979 ceremony. It was a breakthrough for Joel, whose biggest hit to this point was "Piano Man," which reached #25 in the US Joel told USA Today July 9, 2008: "I was absolutely surprised it won a Grammy. It wasn't even rock 'n' roll, it was like a standard with a little bit of R&B in it. It reminded me of an old Stevie Wonder recording." -- Joel's longtime drummer Liberty DeVitto considers his work on this track his greatest contribution to a Billy Joel song. In an interview, DeVitto said: "Me and [producer] Phil Ramone came up with that kind of crazy rhythm that started out as a samba beat, like a bossa nova with a brush and a stick." Phil Woods played the alto saxophone for this song.