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Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’ still has Christie Brinkley dancing | |
By Lisa Respers France, CNN | |
Updated: | |
10:45 AM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
While Billy Joel may not have written his 1983 hit “Uptown Girl” | |
about his ex-wife Christie Brinkley, she’s the woman most associated | |
with the tune. | |
Which is why the internet has gone wild for a video showing Brinkley | |
dancing to the song at the piano man’s recent concert. | |
shows the former model, now 70, grooving to the song with a huge smile | |
on her face as Joel, 74, performs. | |
Brinkley starred in the music video for the song two years before she | |
and Joel married in 1985, the same year they welcomed their daughter | |
Alexa Ray Joel. Brinkley and Joel divorced in 1994. | |
In 2018, model Elle Macpherson said that she had actually been dating | |
Joel when he was writing the song, but they broke up in the midst. | |
Macpherson said she believed the song was about “all the uptown | |
girls” given the singer’s penchant for “tall girls.” | |
Joel appeared to confirm that in 2014’s “Billy Joel: The Definitive | |
Biography,” where he shared that the original title had been a plural | |
“Uptown Girls,” but he made it singular after falling for Brinkley. | |
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