![]() ![]() Joel won his first career GRAMMYs at the 21st GRAMMY Awards for 1978 for Record and Song Of The Year for "Just The Way You Are" from his album The Stranger.Early in Billy Joel's career, Philadelphia radio station WMMR began playing a live recording of Joel's ballad "Captain Jack." The growing airplay helped Joel sign to a major label, where he recorded his successful 1973 album Piano Man, which reached No.Born William Martin Joel May 9, 1949, in the Bronx, New York.I actually write music and I set words to that. And it's the backwards way of writing because traditional songwriting is you take words or a poem and you set it to music. "I started writing music and then later on in life, I started writing words to the music. ![]()
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