To this day, you vividly remember that Sunday evening twenty years ago. You were out to dinner when your Motorola RAZR V3 rang. You politely…
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, which is the time of the week I get particularly randy. My name is Bob Powell, and I have…
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“River of Dreams” was released on August 10, 1993, but The Hard Times is looking back at Billy Joel’s final studio album a few months…
The attacks on September 11, 2001 forever changed the United States, and American popular culture was not immune, particularly music. In the days following the…
In an age when even hard copy media is a luxury, one benevolent corporation continues its sacred mission to preserve the physical artifacts of music…
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. — Legendary singer/songwriter Billy Joel’s classic song “Piano Man” was originally crafted to be a pitch for a “Mega Man 2” character,…
Next to living way too long, avoiding blame seems to be the primary skill of the baby boomer generation. From them we’ve inherited a dying…
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Singer-songwriter Billy Joel via social media that he has quit Green Day, and will no longer have associations with the band going…