I'm not the kind of person who blogs because I always thought a blog was the blues you get when you are in a fog. Billy has a way of getting rid of the blogs or just make them feel better when I hear his music. Like a lot of fans I became one after hearing "Just the Way You Are". I'm an Asperger's advocate and poet who can say she has been Billy Joel Psychic since around 1981/82. I dreampt him singing his song Laura to me before it was released. I thought it would have been nice for him to have been on the Ed Sullivan show. He then made an Ed Sullivan like parody. I imagined him hanging out with Marlyn Matlin. Sure enough they were soon hanging out together. Did I want him to record "When You Wish Upon a Star" before he recorded it. Sure no problem. Before the US Soviet cultural exchange I thought he would play the Soviet Union and the press would have a big to do about it. When he was making Stormfront I thought it might sound like a John Denver album. He soon said in an interview that the East End (or what I call the East Beginning) was so nice he didn't want it to sound like a John Denver album. A couple of years before he wrote "We Didn't Start the Fire" I had imagined he would write a timeline song that would list historic events. I thought it would be about ancient history and not the last part of the 20th century. For a while before River of Dreams I thought Christie would do cover art for him sooner or later. I imagined him doing a lot of concerts and saw the image in my head of him at a stadium with a wrecking ball behind it. Last play at Shea prohapsThe title for Fantasis and Delusions also came to me in a dream back in 95. My latest prediction was the next face to face tour. I hope I can get floor seats like I imagined. There are some things I predicted that have not come true, a Broadway musical of new material, an album of Jazz piano, and maybe some more recordings of his classical music. I have a feeling he might write an album of pop songs with others singing on them. But what is important is what makes an artist happy. And of course I adore his eclecticism, sweeping melodies and existential lyrics. They really are good for the blogs. Sorry for the spelling errors.

Laura,. .