A New York guy wrote this at a piano bar while serving drinks

This isn’t just a ballad—it’s the story of a man and the lonely souls in a bar.
Back in 1973, Billy Joel was stuck in a bad record deal and played under the name “Bill Martin” at a piano bar in L.A.
The people he met there?
A Navy guy, a bartender, a struggling writer...
They all ended up in the lyrics of Piano Man.

The song didn’t take off right away.
But once radio stations picked it up, it became the song that changed his life.

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Next time you hear Piano Man, don’t just listen to the melody—
listen for the real people behind the words.

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