Newsday reports.Cellphone video sneakily taken of Joel shows the 71-year-old, five-time Grammy winner casually performing a complicated song — identified by fans as Shelton Brooks’ 1917 ragtime roll “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” — in a helmet with a backpack last month.“Not bad!” the music titan and writer of “Uptown Girl” exclaimed in the viral clip posted June 26 on YouTube. “The action is good.
It just needs tuning.”Joel then insisted that the discarded instrument is “a perfectly good piano,” and, “It’s a shame to throw it out.”Distraught to see the piano so heartlessly thrown away, Joel added that it “should at least be donated to St.
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