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Billy Joel reveals 'We Didn't Start the Fire' was "terrible" at first and started out as a "country song"
13 July 2023, 10:58
The Piano Man may be one of the greatest songwriters of all time, but he's the first to say some of his songs are 'real stinkers'.
Billy Joel is a songwriting genius with a string of smash hits to his name.
The 74-year-old from New York is responsible for ‘Piano Man’, ‘Uptown Girl’ and ‘Moving Out’ to name just a few, but in an interview, he once admitted some of his songs are 'real stinkers'.
Speaking to The Los Angeles Times in March 2023, Joel said: "I’ve written some real stinkers I wish I could take back,” he said, mentioning 1989 hit 'When in Rome' and 'C’était Toi'.
“I don’t even speak French,” he said of the latter, “so I don’t know what I was doing.
Sometimes I’d get six or seven songs I thought were pretty damn good, then there’d be a couple of squeeze-out