Steely Dan's engineer, Roger Nichols, built one of the first drum machines, which they used on "Hey Nineteen." Meshell Ndegeocello talks about recording "Wild Night" with John Mellencamp, and explains why she shied away from the spotlight. My father lives in Vienna now. Lipton told the audience of drama students that "Vienna waits for you".

This century started out with this Assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo and that begat World War I which begat the Russian Revolution, then you had the Depression then that begat World War II and then that begat the Cold War and all that’s over but they’re still blowing each other to smithereens in Sarajevo. "This song plays in a scene where a chastened Jennifer Garner returns to her childhood home in the 2004 film The song grew in popularity in the '00s and '10s. We tend to put older people away, and it's all about young people. So the metaphor of Vienna has the meaning of a crossroad. In a July 2008 New York Times article, Joel cited this as one of his two favorite songs, along with “Summer, Highland Falls”. We are seeing the result of it in this ethnic warfare in the Balkans which is a tragedy. His father said something like, "No, it isn't. McCartney wrote his duet with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory," after a marital tiff with Linda. Vienna is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger, released as the B-side to his "Just the Way You Are" single. He commented that is was awful to have an old woman doing that kind of work. It was a place where cultures co-mingled.There is also a lot of inside stuff on the song. Joel realized how American culture can push aside the elderly and strip them of their purpose and worth. I had to track him down.

"The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs.As a 5-year-old, Brandi was writing lyrics to instrumental versions lullabies. You get great beer in Vienna but you also get brandy from Armenia. The beginning and the end is very Kurt Weill. The lyrics, 'slow down you crazy child' - in other words, you have a whole life. The four previous chart-toppers from her Teenage Dream set were "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework"; and, "E.T." she's being useful and she's doing a service that benefits everyone. When Billy appeared on On another Howard Stern appearance Joel said that the song came to him very quickly, in what he called "a Promethean moment."

Slow down, you're going to be fine. What's the point of it? Joel does a bit during concerts where he lets the audience choose among two songs; he often offers up "Vienna," and it usually wins, often beating out a hit.Speaking with Stephen Colbert in 2017, Joel listed "Vienna" among his Top 5 songs. there’s a lot of crazy stuff going on. Some people will get there sooner, and some people will get there later.