Piano Man

~ Song

Relationships

lyricist and composer:Billy Joel
publisher:April Music Ltd.
Blackwood Music Inc.
EMI Songs Australia Pty. Ltd.
Home Grown Music, Inc.
Impulsive Music
Tinker Street Tunes
ヤマハミュージックEH(CM)
ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
CBS Songs Ltd. (in 1973)
Joelsongs (in 1973)
other databases:https://www.whosampled.com/Billy-Joel/Piano-Man/ [info]
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/24153 [info]
Songfacts:http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1079 [info]
Wikidata:Q1813850 [info]
later parody versions:[John Barrowman]
Ode to a Superhero
Piano Colt
Piano Dick
Synthesizer Man
later translated versions:Barpianisten
El hombre del piano
is the basis for:Drummer Boy

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1973Piano ManBilly Joel5:39
1973Piano Man (demo, never released)Billy Joel2:50
1977-11-12Piano Man (live, 1977-11-12: Long Island, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel5:57
1977Piano Man (Long Island ’77)liveBilly Joel5:52
1983-11-13Piano Man (live, 1993-11-13: Carrier Dome, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel5:46
1987Piano Man (live, 1987: Bridge Tour, U.S.S.R.)liveBilly Joel4:26
1990-06-22 – 1990-06-23Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:07
1990-06-22 – 1990-06-23Piano Man (live, 1990-06-22/3: Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel5:30
1990-06-22 – 1990-06-23Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:15
1990-06-22 – 1990-06-23Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:12
1990-06-22 – 1990-06-23Piano Man (live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY – June 1990)liveBilly Joel5:50
1993-12-29Piano Man (live unreleased version)liveBilly Joel6:32
1994-06-18Piano ManliveBilly Joel8:27
1994-10-03Piano Barlive and partialBilly Joel7:47
1996-10-23Piano Man (live, 1996‐10‐23: Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada)cover, live and partialWeen2:05
1998-03-31Piano Man (live, 1998-03-31: Tokyo Dome, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan)liveElton John & Billy Joel7:05
1998-03Piano Man (live, 1998-03: Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan)liveElton John & Billy Joel7:47
1998-06-02Piano Man (live, 1998-06-02: Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland)liveElton John & Billy Joel?:??
1999-08-18Piano Man (live, 1999‐08‐18: Club Apocalypse, Memphis, TN, USA)cover and liveWeen3:10
2003-03-14Piano Man (live, 2003-03-14: Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, SC, USA)liveElton John & Billy Joel?:??
2006-01 – 2006-05Piano Man (live, 2006: Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel5:44
2008-01-21Piano Mancover and liveStephen Kellogg and the Sixers6:03
2008-07-16 – 2008-07-18Finale (Piano Man / Let It Be)live and medleyBilly Joel?:??
2008-07-16 – 2008-07-18Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel6:49
2008-07-16 – 2008-07-18Piano Man (live, 2008-07: Shea Stadium, New York, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel6:48
2008-07-16 – 2008-07-18Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel5:53
2013-03Piano Mancover and live林一峰?:??
2014-07-15Piano ManWolfgang Haffner5:05
Piano MancoverBaby Blanket Music4:27
Piano Mancoverコロムビアオルゴール5:54
Piano ManliveBilly Joel?:??
Piano Man (live, 1982-12-29: Long Island, NY, USA)liveBilly Joel6:06
Piano ManBilly Joel3:44
Piano Man (live, 1990: USA)liveBilly Joel5:48
Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel5:36
Piano Man (live)liveElton John & Billy Joel6:19
Piano Man (live, 1994)liveBilly Joel5:22
Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:23
Piano Mancover and instrumentalVitamin String Quartet5:06
Piano MancoverAri Koivunen4:39
Piano MancoverBerlin Voices6:14
Piano Mancover and livePaddy Schmidt5:49
Piano MancoverPaddy Goes to Holyhead5:58
Piano MancoverBilly Joel Tribute Band2:56
Piano MancoverBrendan Jones5:08
Piano MancoverDarin McDonald6:36
Piano Mancover and liveStony?:??
Piano Mancover and instrumentalThe Songrise Orchestra4:52
Piano MancoverJim Witter5:51
Piano ManBilly Joel5:30
Piano MancoverSowelu5:54
Piano MancoverDave Stewart4:42
Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:29
Piano ManBilly Joel?:??
Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:02
Piano ManBilly Joel5:39
Piano ManliveBilly Joel?:??
Piano ManBilly Joel?:??
Piano ManliveBilly Joel5:49
Piano MancoverNeal Morse7:46
Piano Mancover and instrumentalTwinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star6:06
Piano MancoverGlee Cast3:15
Piano ManinstrumentalJeff Lass1:19
Piano MancoverFoxes & Fossils5:38
Piano ManBilly Joel5:39
Piano Mancover, instrumental and partialBessler / Opgenoorth1:01
Piano ManBilly Joel5:58
Piano MancoverAttila Fias5:49
Piano ManBilly Joel4:35
Piano ManinstrumentalPatrick James5:24
Piano ManBilly Joel?:??
Piano ManBilly Joel4:35
Piano Mancover and liveTomás Jackman6:08
Piano ManliveBilly Joel3:39
Piano ManliveElton John & Billy Joel?:??
Piano ManBilly Joel4:35
Piano ManliveBilly Joel6:03
Piano ManliveBilly Joel & Elton John?:??
Piano ManliveBilly Joel?:??
Piano ManBilly Joel5:05
Piano ManliveBilly Joel5:33
Piano Man (acoustic)Billy Joel5:36
Piano Man (Bossa version)coverMarcelo Rezende5:39
Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel5:29
Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel5:29
Piano Man (live)liveBilly Joel?:??
Piano Man (live)cover and liveThe Bergamot?:??
Piano Man (River of Dreams Tour, 1994)liveBilly Joel5:23
PianomanmedleyThe Academy11:30
Time in a Bottle / Piano Man Concertocover, instrumental and medleyDavid Osborne3:51