Parks and Recreation
2009
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Apr 29, 2024 · Billy Joel's ex-wife Christie Brinkley danced along as he performed "Uptown Girl," the song he wrote about her, during a recent show at Madison Square Garden, according to a video shared on TikTok ...
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- Brendan Morrow
- Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel First Meet
- Christie Brinkley Stars in Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" Music Video
- March 23, 1985: Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Get Married
- December 29, 1985: Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Welcome A Daughter
- Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel Divorce
In true celebrity style, Joel and Brinkley met in St. Bart's. Both parties were vacationing on the Caribbean island in early 1983. To get Brinkley's attention, Joel did what he called "an album cover." "I tried to look like me on an album cover. I gave it every angle I could." Recreating the album cover didn't work, but Joel ran across some luck la...
Joel began writing the song "Uptown Girl" while dating Macpherson. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Livein 2018, Macpherson weighed in on an anecdote from Joel's canceled 2011 memoir. Joel claimed that Macpherson had been waiting for him in his apartment when he came home with Brinkley one night. As Macpherson remembered, she was living w...
In 1985, the couple wed in New York Harbor while aboard a 147-foot yacht before buying a home on Long Island, per People. "When you start to get famous, you need a backyard, a place where you can get away from it all," Brinkley told Sports Illustratedin 1989. "I told Joe one day that the second-worst thing I could think of would be to be famous and...
Brinkley and Joel welcomed daughter Alexa Ray in 1985. Although Alexa is their only child, Joel and Brinkley have kids from other relationships — Brinkley shares daughter Sailorand son Jack Paris with ex-husband Peter Cook. Meanwhile, Joel and his wife, Alexis Roderick, share two daughters, Della Rose (born August 2015) and daughter Remy Anne (born...
In April 1994, Joel and Brinkley decided to split after nine years of marriage. People reported the two had been separated since Thanksgiving, with the outlet attributing the cause of the divorceto many factors — including Brinkley's desire to move to the West Coast and her frustrations with Joel's touring schedule. However, Brinkley hinted at anot...
Apr 30, 2024 · CNN —. While Billy Joel may not have written his 1983 hit “Uptown Girl” about his ex-wife Christie Brinkley, she’s the woman most associated with the tune. Which is why the internet has ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Christie Brinkley danced and sang along to ex-husband Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl," which was written about her, at his concert at Madison Square Garden. The supermodel showed her love of the song ...
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- Drew Weisholtz
Apr 29, 2024 · All these years later, Billy Joel is still singing to his Uptown Girl. In videos captured at his April 26 Madison Square Garden performance, Joel’s ex-wife Christie Brinkley was having a blast ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley on the set of the music video for Joel's song "Uptown Girl" in 1983. Vinnie Zuffante / Getty Images file “I feel like it’s the kind of song that, I don’t ...
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Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley married in March 1985. Billy and Christie met in 1983 while both of them were vacationing on the Caribbean islands, according to InStyle. Christie worked as a ...
