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Sending a Pop Star Flowers
He's touring. Yeah, he's playing little clubs, little clubs. And he's like, I'm gonna find my father while I'm here, blah blah blah blah blah. He's about to leave, he's about to get in the airport, he gets a telegram. We found your father. His father had moved to Vienna, has a 5-year-old and a wife. And Billy Joel's like, what the fuck? Like, you never did any of this shit with me. And so, um, he said Vienna has multiple layers and meanings. It's, it's, it's not only that his father was in Vienna, but that Vienna is the capital of music in Billy's eyes. It's classical music comes from Vienna.
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Thank you so much. No. So Vienna, I think it's about his dad was like walking him around Vienna, and he was— and basically they saw an old woman working, right?
No, that's not what's in the doc. Maybe there's probably a million stories. His dad left him when he was 8, never saw him. He's in Europe when he's like 22, and he's like—
he puts— he's there on— he's there for a show.
He's touring. Yeah, he's playing little clubs, little clubs. And he's like, I'm gonna find my father while I'm here, blah blah blah blah blah. He's about to leave, he's about to get in the airport, he gets a telegram. We found your father. His father had moved to Vienna, has a 5-year-old and a wife. And Billy Joel's like, what the fuck? Like, you never did any of this shit with me. And so, um, he…
Um, but I, I, there was a version that I heard that they were walking— he was walking around with his dad once he like re— yes, re-got together with him. Yeah. And there was like an old woman sweeping the street, and Billy was like, this is so sad that she st…
Yeah. And he's been interviewed so many times, he probably has said— he's probably changed different things.
Yeah.