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We are seeing the result of it in this ethnic warfare in the Balkans which is a tragedy. That kind of sick, middle-European, kinky decadent thing. The beginning and the end is very Kurt Weill. I thought “Vienna waits for you…There is also a lot of inside stuff on the song. In a lot of these older places in the world, they value their older people and their older people feel they can still be a part of the community and I thought ‘This is a terrific idea – that old people are useful -and that means I don’t have to worry so much about getting old because I can still have a use in this world in my old age. We put them in rest homes, we kinda kick them under the rug and make believe they don’t exist. We treat old people in this country pretty badly. I say to my father “What’s this nice old lady doing sweeping the street?” He says “She’s got a job, she feels useful, she’s happy, she’s making the street clean, she’s not put out to pasture”.

She must have been about 90 years old and she is sweeping the street. So I go to visit my father in Vienna, I’m walking around this town and I see this old lady. It was a place where cultures co-mingled. You get great beer in Vienna but you also get brandy from Armenia.

It’s a place of inter…course, of exchange – it’s the place where cultures co-mingle. So the metaphor of Vienna has the meaning of a crossroad. During the Cold War, between the Eastern Bloc, the Warsaw Pact nations and the NATO countries was the city of Vienna… Vienna was always the crossroads – between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. He lives in Vienna, Austria which I thought was rather bizarre because he left Germany in the first place because of this guy named Hitler and he ends up going to the same place that Hitler hung out all those years! Vienna, for a long time was the crossroads. I didn’t see him from the time I was 8 ‘till I was about 23-24 years old. “Why did I pick Vienna to use as a metaphor for the rest of your life? My father lives in Vienna now. In an July 2008 New York Times article, Joel spoke about the track and how it was one of his two favourite songs (as well as “Summer, Highland Falls”): “Vienna” is a soft rock track about not being too quick to grow up and to enjoy your life while you can. The track was written by Joel and produced by Phil Ramone. B en Platt also sang Vienna on an episode of The Politician.Īnd here is a short article on what 'Vienna' meant to fashion industry CEO Sophia Amuroso after her divorce, from The Wall Street Journal (2016).“Vienna” is the fifth track from American composer, singer and songwriter Billy Joel and his fifth studio album “The Stranger”, which was released in 1977.

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'Vienna' was also the main song for the 2004 movie 13 Going On 30 (YouTube fan video), and seems to have become a favorite of emo teenage girls and there are many covers on YouTube. You can read a good article about the Taxi episode by Noel Murray on AV Club, here.

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The song was used in an episode of the popular 1970s television series Taxi (YouTube fan video) in a seminal episode of the series. Īfter 1978, Billy rarely played the song live in concert, until resurrecting it in the 2000's. You can tell that she really feels it, her phrasing and tone is spot on for the message of the song. Recently, I saw that Grace VanderWaal also covers 'Vienna' in concert, and she does a great job with the song. It is better than the somewhat bombastic version by Arianna Grande which lacks nuance and subtlety. Eugenie uses some unique phrasing and gives the song a new perspective.

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'Vienna' has been covered by many amateur and some professional singers, but the only version I really like is this understated cover by Eugenie Thompson (or go to Videos page and scroll down) (Update: see also this great ukelele cover by Hannah Mac at the Videos page that I posted several years ago). When will you realize.Vienna waits for you. Why don't you realize.Vienna waits for you It's alright you can afford to lose a day or two You know you can't always see when you're right, you're rightīut don't you know that only fools are satisfied?ĭream on but don't imagine they'll all come trueĪnd take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while You can't be everything you want to be before your timeĪlthough it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight When will you realize.Vienna waits for you You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through You better cool it off before you burn it out Where's the fire, what's the hurry about? Only The Good Die Young (alternate version)

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