What Billy Joel song is VH1 always saying is about Christie Brinkley?

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I know it's actually "Uptown Girl" and half the other songs on An Innocent Man but I swear to god I have these vivid memories of a bunch of talking heads on VH1 going on about how he wrote either "She's Always a Woman" or "Just the Way You Are" about her and how funny that is because then he divorced her. Anyone? I know this makes no sense since those two songs are from like 5 years before he met her but is there another one I'm forgetting that's in this vein?

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Was this show on VH-1 the Four on the Floor show?

I think they were talking about "Just the Way You Are," and that Joel wrote the song about his first wife (Brinkley was #2).

God help me for knowing this.

― James, Friday, 27 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Did he write a song about the time he broke her arm too?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

"for the longest time"?

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

uh xpost

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

He wrote those aforementioned songs from The Stranger as well as "She's Got A Way" for his first wife, Elizabeth.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

uptown grill, the one with paul wall

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Thanks y'all!

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

"That's Not Her Style"

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

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