Perhaps the song's real-life inspiration, Joel's new relationship with then-wife Christie Brinkley, was behind its bubbly good vibes. It was released on September 29, 1983, on his ninth studio album, An Innocent Man (1983). Since the 1970s, he is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The lyrics describe a working-class 'downtown man' attempting to woo a wealthy 'uptown girl'. Always his Uptown Girl Twenty years after they called it quits, Billy Joel is still serenading his ex-wife Christie Brinkley. Billy Joel is an American singer-songwriter, nicknamed the Piano Man after his first signature song of the same name. Uptown girl SheвЂ™s been living in her uptown world I bet sheвЂ™s never had a backstreet guy I bet her momma never told her why. Watch the official music video for вЂUptown GirlвЂ™, which became a Top 10 hit in the US that year. It's a sheer delight from start to finish, one of the most musically successful songs not only on the album but of Joel's entire career he's clearly going for a genre piece here, but unlike some of the tracks on An Innocent Man that are a little studied in the way they re-create sounds from the past (first single 'Tell Her About It,' for example), there is nothing but giddy enjoyment to be found here. 'Uptown Girl' is a song written and performed by the American musician Billy Joel. Billy Joel Uptown Girl In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces JoelвЂ™s musical history through his teenage years in the late вЂ™50s and early вЂ™60s. Most of An Innocent Man is fairly nonspecific in its homages to the sound of Billy Joel's musical adolescence, but 'Uptown Girl' is full-on, 100 percent Four Seasons, from its soaring intro, with its perfect evocation of those classic New York City harmonies, to Joel's valiant attempt to get his gruff singing voice up into Frankie Valli's falsetto register on the fade.

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