Billy Joel Has Forgotten The Old Maxim About Glass Houses
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the junket yesterday:
The crabby Billy Joel told reporters that singing of the national anthem is kind of a slog.
“It’s not the greatest song ever written,” he said, complaining he shoudn’t have to meet with reporters at a Thursday press conference, as required by the NFL.
“I’m just doin’ the anthem period. I ain’t doin’ the half-time show. Prince is doing that.”
Joel dissed the national anthem, saying “‘America the Beautiful’ is actually a better song.” And when a reporter for WBBM-Radio asked Joel to sing a “Chicago song” at the news conference, Joel snidely refused. “Nah, I’m just giving a press conference. I’m not here to entertain anybody.”
Aw, c’mon, Billy–we know that you made your bones as an angry young man, but really, after foisting that an aural sleeping pill on the world earlier this week, you should probably be laying low, at least on the “lobbing potshots at any other piece of music ever” front.
Prince takes questions! [Ellen Warren’s Shopping Blog (?!), via Can’t Stop The Bleeding] Earlier: Leak Of The Day: Billy Joel No Longer Goes To Extremes
