It was the second biggest-selling single of 1983 in the UK, and was the 19th biggest-selling single of the 1980s, selling 975,000 copies. Flashback circa 1980s: (people still wore baggy pants and teased their hair. Billy Joel Posed to Look Like the Cover of His Album so Christie Brinkley Would Recognize Him TBT : Check in every Thursday as we throw it back to some of our favorite celebrity couples of all time. Joel sang the 1983 hit song during his Madison Square Garden concert last Thursday, where Brinkley was among the audience in the front row. It was a number three record in the US, and reached number one in the UK, his only number one in the country. Christie Brinkley will always be Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. The couple have remained good friends over the years while raising Alexa. They had one child together: Alexa Ray Joel, born December 29, 1985. However, the marriage ended in August 1994. Guests at the wedding included singer Paul Simon and members of the band Stray Cats. They first met in 1983 on the Island of St Barts, in the Caribbean, and were married on a yacht on the Hudson River, the second marriage for both of them. Are Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley still together?Ĭhristie Brinkley, Alexa Ray Joel and Billy Joel in 2010.
As Gwyneth says, "I adore the contrast of the dark chocolate and the cherries - heaven." Enjoy.The song's video shows Billy and his backup singers working as car mechanics.Ĭhristie arrives in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, as Billy and his mates dance around her.Ī poster of Brinkley can also be seen in the garage, as well as on a billboard above the garage advertising 'Uptown cosmetics'.īy the end of the video, Billy and Christie ride off on a motorcycle. In honor of her father’s surprise July 4 th wedding, Alexa Ray Joel wrote her father Billy Joel and new wife Alexis Roderick a touching poem, publishing it on her Instagram. Remy Anne Joel was born at New York University Hospital and weighed in at 7 lbs. You will find it on Gwyneth Paltrow's website ( - more than just biscuit recipes, it's a virtual clearing-house for all manner of mumbo-jumbo). Who is Billy Joels girlfriend Billy Joel married girlfriend Alexis Roderick in a surprise ceremony at the couples annual Fourth of July party. Billy Joel became a father for third time on Sunday (October 22nd, 2017). In the end, the heart wants what it wants.īut just in case you feel that the Joels' five-year marriage - I know, time flies, right? - has passed you by without you managing to take anything from it, this column is happy to present you with a parting gift in the form of the outgoing Mrs Joel's recipe for Dark Chocolate Chunk and Dried Cherry Cookies. It's unclear whether the wives felt that day-to-day life with Billy failed to match up to the promise of his lyrics, or whether they were only in it for the song in the first place. ITS AN (UPTOWN) GIRL Billy Joel, 68, and wife Alexis Roderick, 35, welcome baby girl Remy Anne as he becomes a father for the third time. There was also the height difference, which was similarly considerable, and the non-traditional way round.Ī theory is doing the rounds to the effect that all Billy Joel's marriages have expired shortly after he penned a song about his wife: Just The Way You Are did for the first Uptown Girl saw off Christie Brinkley, and, just possibly, the recent (well, 2006) All My Life could have triggered this most recent split. Inspired by Frankie Valli’s Rag Doll, its lyrics find a downtown boy (lower class) waxing. 26, show at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, about his ex-wife Christie Brinkley dating John. Billy Joel jokingly griped onstage during his Saturday, Sept. Some folk are speculating that the age difference between Joel and his wife, Katie Lee, might have figured in the split (she's 27, he's 60 if the age difference were a person, it would arguably still be too old for her). Uptown Girl is a Billy Joel classic that can be found on 1983’s An Innocent Man. Midtown complaints about his Uptown Girl. If you missed the news that Billy Joel got married for the third time, fear not, for he is shortly to divorce for the third time.
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