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"'Piano Man' Still Hasn't Found A Buyer For His Sagaponack Estate" By: Nick Leighton (June 6th, 2011) Billy Joel has just slashed the price of his Sagaponack estate again, this time from $18.5 million to $16.8 million (he had originally wanted $22.5 million for it when it first came onto the market in 2009). Joel bought the oceanfront home in 2007 from the late Roy Scheider for his then-wife Katie Lee and had designer Nate Berkus redo the interiors. With so many names to drop (and so many feet of ocean frontage), it's a wonder this one is still on the market. "Billy Joel's 'Allentown' Reprised In 'The Hangover (Part II)'" The 1982 Song Is Comically & Profanely Rewritten For A Scene In The Hit Comedy By: John Moser (June 7th, 2011) Billy Joel's "Allentown," the song that briefly put the Queen City on the lips of people nationwide in 1982, is getting the city another shot of attention for its use in a critical scene of the new movie "The Hangover (Part II)." A profanely rewritten version of the song is included on the film's soundtrack on Warner Bros. records, and various versions of it on YouTube have gotten more than 300,000 views. That's almost half the number of views for the official video of Joel's "Allentown." In the movie, which opened #1 at the box office last week, the main character, Stu, played by Ed Helms, sings the song to Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they are riding on a boat in Thailand. It's used to vent Stu's anger and disgust at how Alan has ruined his impending wedding and gotten them and their friends Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Doug (Justin Bartha) involved in international intrigue. "Billy Joel Inducts Garth Brooks Into Songwriters Hall of Fame" (June 7th, 2011) The Songwriters Hall of Fame has honored the likes of Garth Brooks, Leon Russell and Allen Toussaint at its annual gala in New York City. Amid the famous faces, some of Thursday night's inductees weren't so familiar - that is, until you heard the songs they penned. Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly might be able to walk the streets in anonymity, but they've written some famously catchy hits, including Madonna's "Like a Virgin," Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors," Whitney Houston's "So Emotional," and The Pretenders "I'll Stand By You." "It
was pretty risque at the time," Kelly said of the Madonna song.
"It took us about a month to finally, accidentally fall into what
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