Billy Joel serenades ex-wife Christie Brinkley with Uptown Girl... before their daughter Alexa Ray joins him on 行う／開催する／段階 for 業績／成果 during Madison Square Garden residency in NYC
Billy Joel's 最新の 業績／成果 for his longtime-running Madison Square Garden residency turned out to be a family 事件／事情／状勢 of sorts.
Not only did the Piano Man 攻撃する，衝突する the 行う／開催する／段階 of 'The World's Most Famous 円形競技場' on Friday, April 26, for the 147th time of his illustrious career, he also got to 株 the moment with his daughter Alexa Ray Joel by 成し遂げるing together, as 報告（する）／憶測d by Us 週刊誌.
And in a walk 負かす／撃墜する memory 小道／航路, the festive evening also saw the New York City native serenade his ex-wife Christie Brinkley during the point in the show when he sang his 攻撃する，衝突する Uptown Girl (1983).?
While 最初 written about his 関係 with supermodel Elle?Macpherson, the song ended up becoming a story about his soon-to-be wife, Brinkley.
During the 業績／成果, the 1980s 初めの supermodel could be seen swaying and dancing along as her ex-husband belted out the catchy melodies and lyrics, which ended up 存在 shown on the 大規模な, 総計費 監視する, which elicited and even bigger smile from the Uptown Girl, herself.
Billy Joel, 74, serenaded his ex-wife Christie Brinkley with a 見解／翻訳／版 of his 1983 攻撃する，衝突する song Uptown Girl, which was written about his soon-to-be wife, during his residency show at Madison Square Garden on Friday, April 26
The New York City native 最初 肩書を与えるd his song Uptown Girls but ended up changing it to just be about Brinkley after 会合 her in 1983; the former couple are seen in late 1983, not long after they began to start dating
Joel, 74, had 初めは 肩書を与えるd the song Uptown Girls, which was conceived on an occasion when he was surrounded by then girlfriend?Macpherson, Brinkley and Whitney Houston.
支援する in 2010, Joel 明らかにする／漏らすd told Howard 厳しい that he decided to make changes to the tune and made it?特に about Brinkley and 改名するd it Uptown Girl after he?stopped dating fellow 最高の，を越す model Elle Macpherson.
'Rather than it be about all these different girls, she became the Uptown Girl. I started 令状ing it about one person,' he explained during the interview.
The lyrics of the tune, off his ninth studio album An Innocent Man (1983), 述べる a working class downtown man 試みる／企てるing to 支持を得ようと努める a 豊富な uptown girl.?
Brinkley, 70, was even brought in to appear in the music ビデオ that 描写するs Joel and his backup singers working as 自動車 mechanics. The covergirl arrives in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce as Joel and the mechanics dance with her around the garage.?
A poster of Brinkley can be seen in the garage of the ビデオ 同様に as on a billboard above the garage advertising 'Uptown Cosmetics'.?
The music ビデオ has a storybook ending, showing Joel ride off with Brinkley on a motorcycle.???
Uptown Girl 頂点（に達する）d at number three on the?Billboard Hot 100 for five 連続した weeks the last two months of 1983. It also reached number one in the 部隊 ed Kingdom for five weeks, his only number-one 攻撃する，衝突する in the country.
After 令状ing about the 1980s supermodel, Joel got Brinkley to 星／主役にする in the music ビデオ for Uptown Girl,?
'Rather than it be about all these different girls, she became the Uptown Girl. I started 令状ing it about one person,' Joel explained to Howard 厳しい in 2010
The music ビデオ 描写するs Joel and his backup singers working as 自動車 mechanics, and Brinkley as the adored uptown girl who' chauffeured to the garage in a Rolls-Royce
The song, 奮起させるd by the 1950's sound of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, was the second-best-selling 選び出す／独身 of 1983 in the UK behind only Culture Club's?Karma Chameleon.
In his real life, Joel would tie-the-knot with Brinkley in March 1985, about a year-and-a-half after the 解放（する） of Uptown Girl, いっそう少なく than two years after 会合 on the Island of St. Barts in the Caribbean.?
They would welcome their daughter nine months after their nuptials, but 最終的に they got 離婚d in 1994.
Alexa Ray, now 38, got up on 行う／開催する／段階 with her father and 成し遂げるd two songs: To Sir, With Love (1967), which is the 主題 song to the 演劇 film of the same 指名する, and Say Goodbye To Hollywood, off her dad's fourth album?Turnstiles (1976).
Joel's show at MSG on Friday also featured the proud dad 成し遂げるing with his daughter Alexa Ray, 38, whom she 株 with Brinkley
While the Piano Man banged on the 重要なs, his daughter 成し遂げるd the songs To Sir, With Love (1967), which is the 主題 song to the 演劇 film of the same 指名する, and Say Goodbye To Hollywood, off her dad's fourth album Turnstiles (1976)
Father and daughter 株d a 甘い moment at the end of their 業績／成果 together
Starting his MSG residency by 成し遂げるing one show a month, 無期限に／不明確に, Billy Joel is now 予定するd to end the １０年間-long run this July, which will 示す his 104th 業績／成果 in the series, and his 150th show at the famed 発生地 in his lifetime
Billy Joel is 現在／一般に winding 負かす／撃墜する his MSG residency that started way 支援する in January 2014 when he committed to playing one concert a month at the famous 円形競技場, 無期限に／不明確に.
But then in June 2023, the six-time Grammy 勝利者 発表するd the run of the residency would end in July 2024 with his 104th 業績／成果 in the series, which will 示す his 150th show at MSG in his lifetime.
With Friday 存在 his 147th show at the famed 発生地, that translates to just three more concerts left for Joel and his Madison Square Garden residency.
At the beginning of the run 10 years ago, Joel was 収入 about $2 million per show, によれば Parade.?But that 人物／姿／数字 has since jumped to about $3 million per show.
