[bold].... but didn't know.[/bold]Per the lyrics, the bar seems to be exclively occupied by dly prsed gay men but Billy is obliv. He jt thks they "never had time for a wife" or will ...
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- BILLY JOEL'S PIANO MAN WORKED AT A GAY BAR....
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HE LATER BEGAN GIVG NCERTS FLAMBOYANT STUM WH ORNATE PIANOS AND NLABRA, PLAYG PRIMARILY POPULAR MIC. VERY SUCCSFUL, HE HOSTED HIS OWN TV VARIETY SERI, THE LIBERACE SHOW (1952–55, 1969), AND APPEARED FILMS SUCH AS SCERELY YOURS (1955). WH HIS UNIQUE BLEND OF CLASSIL TRAG AND OVER-THE-TOP SHOWMANSHIP, LIBERACE WAS ONE OF THE MOST FAMO PERFORMERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. IN LATER YEARS HE PERFORMED EQUENTLY LAS VEGAS.EARLY LIFELIBERACE WAS BORN WLADZIU VALENTO LIBERACE ON MAY 16, 1919, WT ALLIS, WISNS, HIS MIDDLE NAME WAS TAKEN OM ONE OF HIS MOTHER'S FAVORE FILM STARS—RUDOLPH VALENTO. LTLE DID SHE KNOW THAT HER SON WOULD VELOP A VOTED FOLLOWG OF HIS OWN ONE DAY. BOTH OF LIBERACE'S PARENTS WERE TERTED MIC, AND HE BEGAN PIANO LSONS VERY EARLY ON HIS LIFE. A CHILD PRODIGY, HE BEGAN HIS STUDI AT THE WISNS COLLEGE OF MIC WHEN HE WAS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD. LIBERACE STARTED PERFORMG WH ORCHTRAS HIS EARLY TEENS.MIL SENSATNTO MAKE A LIVG, LIBERACE PLAYED MOVIE THEATERS AND NIGHT CLUBS. HE EVEN ADOPTED THE STAGE NAME "WALTER BTERKEYS" FOR A TIME. BEFORE LONG LIBERACE FOUND SOME SUCCS MIXG HIS LOVE OF CLASSIL MIC WH MORE NTEMPORARY TUN. HIS REAL REER BREAKTHROUGH, HOWEVER, ME 1951 WH THE PREMIERE OF THE LIBERACE SHOW. THE MIL PROGRAM FIRST AIRED LOLLY LOS ANGEL BEFORE GOG NATNAL A FEW YEARS LATER. VIEWERS—35 LN OF THEM AT THE PROGRAM'S HEIGHT—ULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF LIBERACE'S PIANO PROWS AND HIS CHEBIC CHARMS. WH HIS TRAMARK NLABRA RTG ATOP HIS PIANO, LIBERACE PLAYED WH GREAT EASE AND GLEE. HIS LARGELY FEMALE DIENCE ALSO ADMIRED LIBERACE'S GREAT VOTN TO HIS MOTHER FRANC. HIS BROTHER GEE PLAYED THE VL ON THE PROGRAM AND ACTED AS HIS ORCHTRAL ARRANGER. IN ADDN TO HIS TELEVISN SHOW, LIBERACE SOLD OUT MANY OF HIS LIVE NCERTS AND SOLD LNS OF RERDS. HE EVEN STARRED THE 1955 FILM SCERELY YOURS, WHICH SERVED AS A SHOWSE FOR HIS TALENTS. IN LAS VEGAS, LIBERACE BEME ONE OF THE CY'S MOST POPULAR PERFORMERS AND ONE OF S TOP-PAID STARS. HE BEME EQUALLY FAMO FOR THE GLZ AND GLAMOUR OF HIS SHOWS AND STUM AS HE WAS FOR HIS MIC. IN 1956, LIBERACE WAS JOED ON STAGE BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ELVIS PRLEY. AROUND THIS TIME, HOWEVER, LIBERACE'S PERSONAL LIFE WAS TURNED TO A LEGAL DRAMA. HE HAD LONG BEEN RID FOR HIS EFFEMATE WAYS, AND HE END UP SUG A BRISH PUBLITN FOR LIBEL AFTER THE MAGAZE IMPLIED THAT HE WAS GAY. LIBERACE LATER WON ANOTHER URT BATTLE AGAST A BRISH LUMNIST OVER HIS MENTS. WHILE HE WAS LATER REVEALED TO BE GAY, LIBERACE WORKED HARD TO NCEAL THIS FACT TO MATA HIS DOMANTLY FEMALE FOLLOWG. WHILE TERT HIS TELEVISN SHOW EVENTUALLY FAD, LIBERACE REMAED POPULAR WH NCERT-GOERS. HIS SHOWS AND STUM SEEMED TO GET MORE ELABORATE AND OSTENTAT WH THE YEARS. HIS HANDS SHOWSED A NUMBER OF ORNATE, PIANO-SHAPED RGS, AND HE DRAPED HIMSELF LONG, HEAVY FUR P. HE EVEN DROVE TO HIS PIANO ON STAGE ONE OF HIS MANY LUXURY TOMOBIL. IN THE MID-1970S, LIBERACE CID TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A PEEK TO HIS LAVISH LIFTYLE. HE TRANSFORMED HIS HOLLYWOOD HOME TO A MM. HE LATER DISPLAYED HIS LLECTN OF STUM, RS AND OTHER TREASUR AT HIS OWN MM LAS VEGAS.FAL YEARS AND DEATHONCE AGA, LIBERACE FOUND HIMSELF A LEGAL STGGLE. HE WAS SUED BY HIS FORMER BODYGUARD AND CHFFR STT THORSON 1982. THORSON CLAIMED THAT HE HAD BEEN A RELATNSHIP WH LIBERACE AND THAT LIBERACE HAD PROMISED TO TAKE RE OF HIM AND SUPPORT HIM. THE SE WAS LATER SETTLED OUT OF URT. SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ATH, STORI CIRCULATED THAT LIBERACE HAD AIDS. HE AND HIS STAFF, HOWEVER, VEHEMENTLY NIED THAT THE ENTERTAER HAD THE DISEASE. LIBERACE PASSED AWAY ON FEBARY 4, 1987, AT HIS HOME PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA. INIALLY, HIS DOCTOR REPORTED THAT THE SHOWMAN DIED OF RDIAC ARRT. 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BILLY JOEL'S PIANO MAN WORKED AT A GAY BAR....
Why do some people thk the piano sounds "gay"? * gay term playing piano *
There are actually three kds of pianists: homosexual pianists, Jewish pianists, and bad RamseyI'm a bad pianist. (read Mills, Fsto-Sterlg, Warner, Halper)Culturally there's a bias to nsir homosexualy as a sort of femy of the male.
So a strong lk between homosexualy and femy has been created (aga the homosexual culture self ternalized the role). (read Buthler, Fouult, Derrida)This has reached nowadays such an high gree that whatever is not herently mysogenist, solely terted fartg, burpg, watchg sport televisn while drkg lers of beer is nsired to a more or lser extent "feme" fact many practic that are rooted the cultur of certa populatns like medatn, walkg for the pleasure of havg a ntact wh nature, poetry, ruals (cludg those where nakedns is a factor) n be nsired by the wtern mentaly a form of femy or gayns or whatever. I won't even ment on how retard is the wtern mentaly this 's pretty easy to make 2 + 2 and lk whatever activy which volv strong feelgs, passns, emotns and actually enurag by s very nature the dishibn of those sensatns feme hence, whe lked wh mal, homosexual.
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HE LATER BEGAN GIVG NCERTS FLAMBOYANT STUM WH ORNATE PIANOS AND NLABRA, PLAYG PRIMARILY POPULAR MIC. VERY SUCCSFUL, HE HOSTED HIS OWN TV VARIETY SERI, THE LIBERACE SHOW (1952–55, 1969), AND APPEARED FILMS SUCH AS SCERELY YOURS (1955). WH HIS UNIQUE BLEND OF CLASSIL TRAG AND OVER-THE-TOP SHOWMANSHIP, LIBERACE WAS ONE OF THE MOST FAMO PERFORMERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. IN LATER YEARS HE PERFORMED EQUENTLY LAS VEGAS.EARLY LIFELIBERACE WAS BORN WLADZIU VALENTO LIBERACE ON MAY 16, 1919, WT ALLIS, WISNS, HIS MIDDLE NAME WAS TAKEN OM ONE OF HIS MOTHER'S FAVORE FILM STARS—RUDOLPH VALENTO. LTLE DID SHE KNOW THAT HER SON WOULD VELOP A VOTED FOLLOWG OF HIS OWN ONE DAY. BOTH OF LIBERACE'S PARENTS WERE TERTED MIC, AND HE BEGAN PIANO LSONS VERY EARLY ON HIS LIFE. A CHILD PRODIGY, HE BEGAN HIS STUDI AT THE WISNS COLLEGE OF MIC WHEN HE WAS ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD. LIBERACE STARTED PERFORMG WH ORCHTRAS HIS EARLY TEENS.MIL SENSATNTO MAKE A LIVG, LIBERACE PLAYED MOVIE THEATERS AND NIGHT CLUBS. HE EVEN ADOPTED THE STAGE NAME "WALTER BTERKEYS" FOR A TIME. BEFORE LONG LIBERACE FOUND SOME SUCCS MIXG HIS LOVE OF CLASSIL MIC WH MORE NTEMPORARY TUN. HIS REAL REER BREAKTHROUGH, HOWEVER, ME 1951 WH THE PREMIERE OF THE LIBERACE SHOW. THE MIL PROGRAM FIRST AIRED LOLLY LOS ANGEL BEFORE GOG NATNAL A FEW YEARS LATER. VIEWERS—35 LN OF THEM AT THE PROGRAM'S HEIGHT—ULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF LIBERACE'S PIANO PROWS AND HIS CHEBIC CHARMS. WH HIS TRAMARK NLABRA RTG ATOP HIS PIANO, LIBERACE PLAYED WH GREAT EASE AND GLEE. HIS LARGELY FEMALE DIENCE ALSO ADMIRED LIBERACE'S GREAT VOTN TO HIS MOTHER FRANC. HIS BROTHER GEE PLAYED THE VL ON THE PROGRAM AND ACTED AS HIS ORCHTRAL ARRANGER. IN ADDN TO HIS TELEVISN SHOW, LIBERACE SOLD OUT MANY OF HIS LIVE NCERTS AND SOLD LNS OF RERDS. HE EVEN STARRED THE 1955 FILM SCERELY YOURS, WHICH SERVED AS A SHOWSE FOR HIS TALENTS. IN LAS VEGAS, LIBERACE BEME ONE OF THE CY'S MOST POPULAR PERFORMERS AND ONE OF S TOP-PAID STARS. HE BEME EQUALLY FAMO FOR THE GLZ AND GLAMOUR OF HIS SHOWS AND STUM AS HE WAS FOR HIS MIC. IN 1956, LIBERACE WAS JOED ON STAGE BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}ELVIS PRLEY. AROUND THIS TIME, HOWEVER, LIBERACE'S PERSONAL LIFE WAS TURNED TO A LEGAL DRAMA. HE HAD LONG BEEN RID FOR HIS EFFEMATE WAYS, AND HE END UP SUG A BRISH PUBLITN FOR LIBEL AFTER THE MAGAZE IMPLIED THAT HE WAS GAY. LIBERACE LATER WON ANOTHER URT BATTLE AGAST A BRISH LUMNIST OVER HIS MENTS. WHILE HE WAS LATER REVEALED TO BE GAY, LIBERACE WORKED HARD TO NCEAL THIS FACT TO MATA HIS DOMANTLY FEMALE FOLLOWG. WHILE TERT HIS TELEVISN SHOW EVENTUALLY FAD, LIBERACE REMAED POPULAR WH NCERT-GOERS. HIS SHOWS AND STUM SEEMED TO GET MORE ELABORATE AND OSTENTAT WH THE YEARS. HIS HANDS SHOWSED A NUMBER OF ORNATE, PIANO-SHAPED RGS, AND HE DRAPED HIMSELF LONG, HEAVY FUR P. HE EVEN DROVE TO HIS PIANO ON STAGE ONE OF HIS MANY LUXURY TOMOBIL. IN THE MID-1970S, LIBERACE CID TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A PEEK TO HIS LAVISH LIFTYLE. HE TRANSFORMED HIS HOLLYWOOD HOME TO A MM. HE LATER DISPLAYED HIS LLECTN OF STUM, RS AND OTHER TREASUR AT HIS OWN MM LAS VEGAS.FAL YEARS AND DEATHONCE AGA, LIBERACE FOUND HIMSELF A LEGAL STGGLE. HE WAS SUED BY HIS FORMER BODYGUARD AND CHFFR STT THORSON 1982. THORSON CLAIMED THAT HE HAD BEEN A RELATNSHIP WH LIBERACE AND THAT LIBERACE HAD PROMISED TO TAKE RE OF HIM AND SUPPORT HIM. THE SE WAS LATER SETTLED OUT OF URT. SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ATH, STORI CIRCULATED THAT LIBERACE HAD AIDS. HE AND HIS STAFF, HOWEVER, VEHEMENTLY NIED THAT THE ENTERTAER HAD THE DISEASE. LIBERACE PASSED AWAY ON FEBARY 4, 1987, AT HIS HOME PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA. INIALLY, HIS DOCTOR REPORTED THAT THE SHOWMAN DIED OF RDIAC ARRT. LATER, AN TOPSY BY THE RIVERSI COUNTY RONER NCLUD THAT LIBERACE HAD ACTUALLY DIED OF AIDS-RELATED PNMONIA.LEGACY AND MOVIE WHILE SOME CRICS HAVE DISMISSED HIM FOR BEG OVERLY SENTIMENTAL, LIBERACE HAS LEFT A LASTG IMPACT ON THE WORLD OF ENTERTAMENT. HIS ELABORATE AND SOMETIM GARISH STYLE HAS FLUENCED THE LIK OF PRLEY, ELTON JOHN AND DAVID BOWIE TO NAME A FEW. A FILM CELEBRATG LIBERACE'S WAS RELEASED 2013, WH MICHAEL DOUGLAS PLAYG THE LEGENDARY {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
I spent 6 years at a nservatory, and the one thg I disvered was that the pianist=gay stereotype ONLY ONLY ONLY appli Ameri. In Rsia and elsewhere, the arts general are NOT thought of as gay and they nnot believe we amerins are silly enough to thk that. I also had iends om Bulgaria and Israel and Lhuania--many of whom played Carnegie Hall several tim, performed wh artists like Gidon Kremer and Hilary Hahn, released CDs--and they were all, you're namg a lot of "gay" pianists--but why don't you try namg some straight pianists or posers.
I have iends who studied wh the jt LOOKS like there are a lot of gay pianists bee people PRY to famo people's liv. You'd be SHOCKED how many gay profsnal football and hockey players there are, but no one ever talks about or they really keep hidn. It's none of my bs, anyway and, as I have had e to remark on any number of past ocsns, the importance of any poser's sexual preferenc is tth of nstctive tert only to his/her sexual partner/s; if one listens to any mic by homosexual posers whout knowg advance that they are/were homosexual, nothg the mic self would give that sexual preference might arguably be rather more tertg to ponr on why so many posers are/were homosexual (the very length of your list is que stctive this rpect), if anyone wanted to try to form some kd of ncln as to whether there might be some fable and explible relatnship between the act of posn and homosexual preference; that said, however, I believe that even this would be on a hidg to nothg much sce, as one uld jt as easily pile an equally long list of non-homosexual posers, that particular p seems not to, Alistair.