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- Joel wrote the song for his daughter Alexa Ray Joel. The singer-songwriter explained, “Alexa, who’s my oldest and who’s now 34, was about seven years old. Her mom [Christie Brinkley] and I were going to be breaking up, and she knew that was going to happen. During that time, she asked me, ‘What happens when you die?'”
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"The Downeaster 'Alexa'" is a song by Billy Joel from his eleventh studio album Storm Front (1989), released as the album's fourth single. It peaked at No. 57 in the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on Joel's Greatest Hits Vol. 3 album in 1997.
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Billy Joel wrote and dedicated this song to the fisherman, clammers and crabbers of The Great South an Peconic Bays. Actually despite the personality of a wild pig he has been rather generous to numerous causes.
Jul 6, 2022 · Billy Joel recently took part in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia where he touched on one of the tenderest tunes in his catalog: “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” from 1993’s River of Dreams. Joel wrote the song for his daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Joel wrote this as a lullaby for his 7-year-old daughter Alexa Ray in response to her question, "Where do we go when we die?" In 2016, Joel told Sirius XM what he told Alexa when she first asked him about life after death: "What I told her was, 'After you die, you go into other people's hearts and they take you with them through their lives ...
Feb 15, 2012 · During a Q&A at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Billy was asked about the song “The Downeaster ‘Alexa,'” just before some technical difficulties at the venue. Billy has always filled any disruptive downtime in his shows with an impromptu riff. In this one, he filled the void with a song that could be called “You Can Kiss My %&S ...
Apr 28, 2021 · When Billy Joel's eldest daughter Alexa Ray released her new song "Seven Years," he could hardly contain his excitement, the 35-year-old singer told PEOPLE (The TV Show!).
At one point Billy had underwritten a plan by his young boat captain to use his boat (Alexa Ray, a 46' custom downeaster) as a commercial operation. As the two developed the plan, it became increasingly clear that the challenges facing a small commercial operation were greater than he had imagined.
