Billy Joel: "Big Shot"

It's so fun to watch Billy Joel sing. He's been writing Top 40 hits for almost forty years; "Big Shot" peaked at #14 in 1979 and was written about Mick Jagger's wife, Bianca, who paved the way for party girls like Paris Hilton and Lindsay (just Lindsay) to pass out in fancy hotel suites and the backseats of limos all over town.

Joel has been nominated for 23 Grammys and has won six, but I doubt he's crying into his coffee. Joel is an artist with whom every musician and even tacit music lover should be familiar. In every sense of the word, he's a big shot. Enjoy.

P.S. I know this is a music video but I'll take them at their word that it was recorded live.

"Big Shot," performed by Billy Joel.
Original on Joel's "52nd Street" (1978).