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Friday, May 23, 2008

Something to ponder - comparative music edition

As I was eating breakfast and listening to the radio this morning, the DJ played back-to-back songs by Billy Joel and Elton John. There was something about them that struck me as similar. Hence...


Something to ponder, #2: Is Billy Joel America's Elton John?

2 comments:

Greg Wise said...

Depends on what you mean by "Elton John". As purveyor of ballads, perhaps. But I don't recall Billy Joel ever performing in a duck suit
:)

Ted Striphas said...

...good point. I suppose I was thinking more in terms of content rather than form when I posed the question!