Billy Joel went out with the models she Macpherson and Christie Brinkley at the same time
The three stars met the same night, then their relationships overflowed.
Singer-songwriter Billy Joel and model Christie Brinkley Made for one of the most discussed Pays of the 80s . While many were surprised to find the cover model with a "downtown guy" like Joel, which may have surprised them was to learn that when they started to see each other, Joel was already involved with Another famous beauty :: She Macpherson . Read the rest for more details on its simultaneous relationships with fashion icons and the truth on the model inspired one of its greatest successes.
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He met them the same evening.
Biography 2014 The final Billy Joel by Fred Schrurs revealed how the singer of "Piano Man" had visited the island of Saint-Barts for a little rest and relaxation in 1983 and ended up meeting the two models, which visited the island during a shooting. Newly divorced from the first wife Elizabeth Weber , the 34 -year -old man played in the hotel bar when the models approached him.
"I just had to eliminate a few songs, and after a few minutes, I looked up, and there, standing on the other side, she was she Macpherson and Christie Brinkley - looking directly at me," he recalls, sharing that he Quickly thanked her piano for making the moment possible.
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He went out with Macpherson first.
At the time, Brinkley was involved in heir champagne Olivier Chandon , lead Joel and the 19 -year -old Macpherson to associate. ("Not that I contained myself," he added the future model, 15, his junior, according to Schrurs' book.) While Macpherson's career flourished in parallel with their relationship, she Started to travel more frequently who, with age gap, with age gap, led Joel to doubt their future together and write the theme of rupture "and it goes" about 'She, according to her biography. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I had a strategy for this song - almost all agreements had a dissonant note, which for me was to transmit what is right in words: a kind of pessimism and resignation, because I knew it was was really not going to work, "he explained.
He brought back to Macpherson one night to Brinkley.
When Macpherson went to Europe for work, Joel began to see other women. After reading in the newspaper that Chandon had been killed In a racing accident, he phoned Brinkley to offer a friendly shoulder on which cry, according to his biography. However, their friendship took a tour of a night after attending a Beach Boys concert together before returning to Joel's. Going up in the elevator to his Pentral Park West penthouse, the pair was a surprise, as he told. "The doors opened directly on my hall, and just beyond, waiting for us, the perfect view of Central Park and the city beyond, everything enlightened-with the exception of the one standing in the hall, blocking This view was, back in town with all her luggage and apparently planning to spend the night, "Joel told Schrurs.
Although Joel recalled that Brinkley "bowed" in front of his nearby apartment, Macpherson then told the night in an appearance in 2018 Look at what's going on live , saying that She was expelled in favor of Brinkley.
"We lived together. I had the floor ... at Central Park West," Macpherson said to the host Andy Cohen , as indicated by Entertainment tonight . "We were friendly, and I think he was going out with Christie at the time, just starting. So yes, I outed myself."
Joel and Brinkley were married in 1985 and have a daughter, Alexa Ray Joel , before divorcing in 1994.
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"Uptown Girl" does not only concern Brinkley.
Although Brinkley left with Joel, Macpherson could claim another of his greatest successes. During Whhl , Cohen spoke of rumors that Joel's single in 1983 "Uptown Girl" may have been written on Macpherson and not Brinkley, who played in the video. According to The final Billy Joel , The artist first wrote the melody, entitled "Uptown Girls", during his Macpherson era. The Australian model, however, refused to take all the credit.
"I think it was all the girls of Uptown, which said it that way," she told Cohen. "I don't need to appropriate on this subject. He loved great girls."
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