Billy Joel SERENADES Ex Christie Brinkley With Uptown Girl
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00:00♪ Uptown, uptown girl, uptown, uptown girl ♪
00:08♪ Look like a pretty boy, uptown, uptown girl ♪
00:13Billy Joel serenading the uptown girl herself,
00:16Christy Brinkley.
00:17Where?
00:18Really?
00:19Can I see?
00:20Yeah, that's the piano man singing his 1983 hit
00:23to his ex-wife at his sold out
00:25Madison Square Garden residency show in NYC on Friday.
00:29Christy all smiles in the crowd
00:30as Billy belts out the song,
00:32which he wrote for her back in 1983.
00:35♪ Oh, uptown, uptown, uptown girl, uptown, uptown girl ♪
00:45♪ And when she's talking, she's talking so my, my, my, my ♪
00:53♪ And when she's talking, she's saying I, I, I, I ♪
00:59Billy Joel's fantastic, wasn't it?
01:01The former couple was married from 1985 to 1994.
01:05And 30 years later, it's all good vibes.
01:08♪ I'm the kind of man you don't want to talk down to man ♪
01:16♪ And when she knows what she wants from her, I ask her ♪
01:23I think that the reason that Billy and I
01:25were able to maintain our friendship
01:27was because of Alexa.
01:30You know, we made a conscious effort to say,
01:33you know, we've got a daughter
01:34that's going to hold us together forever.
01:37And so we were respectful of each other.
01:42And, you know, you can't find either one of us
01:46saying a bad word about the other, you know?
01:49We just never went there.
01:50I feel like it's the kind of song that,
01:54I don't know, one should sing to their hero.
01:56And so it seems fitting.
02:00You are my hero, dad.
02:02I believe it.
02:03We love you, Alexa!
02:04Billy and Christy's daughter, 38-year-old Alexa,
02:07made an appearance at the sold-out show,
02:09singing a few songs with her dad on stage.
02:12♪ Say goodbye to my world ♪
02:16♪ Say goodbye my baby ♪
02:19Proud mama Christy documenting the whole thing
02:22on her Instagram stories.
02:24♪ Say goodbye my baby ♪
02:31Good energy, good vibes.
02:33Also at the show, Christy's daughter with ex,
02:35Peter Cook, 25-year-old Sailor.
02:38The two singing along to Billy's most famous hits.
02:41♪ It's five o'clock on a Saturday ♪
02:46♪ When you have trouble sleeping ♪
02:49♪ You teach the newbie to make a word clearly ♪
02:52♪ You try to change the cycle ♪
02:54♪ Don't you see it now? ♪
02:55♪ No, it ain't the start of the world ♪
02:58Like, we just had so much fun.
02:59Billy's decade-long residency at MSG
03:02ends in July after his 150th show.
03:05But the singer told ET earlier this year
03:07it doesn't mean it's goodbye forever.
03:09Well, I never said I'm never gonna play The Garden again.
03:12It was just in this particular run of the residency,
03:16that's the end of that for now.
03:18We could do The Garden again.
03:19I could play other venues in New York
03:21where I haven't played for the last 10 years.
03:23So it opens up a whole new world.
03:26♪ And when she knows what she wants ♪
03:30♪ On Earth, I am smart ♪