Today’s Theme Music

I don’t think times were ever simpler in my lifetime. They were complicated and busy, and got more complicated and busy. But I nostalgically remember a time when I was younger and matters were simpler for me. They were most likely because I was young and not burdened with a life of personal history and adult choices. That doesn’t matter; I still enjoy remembering them.

That brings out the young Billy Joel for me. He seemed to come out of nowhere in 1973, and was definitely not the sort of music I usually listened to, which was dominated by Pink Floyd, the Who, Frank Zappa, the Stones, ZZ Top…you get it. But a zeitgeist of folk rock seemed to sweep pop-culture in that, my high school junior year, and Billy Joel became entrenched on the airwaves.

Here is ‘Piano Man’.