It also reached number one in the United Kingdom for five weeks, his only number-one hit in the country. "Uptown Girl" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks from November 12 to December 10, 1983. At the end of the video Joel and Brinkley ride off on a motorcycle. A poster of Brinkley can be seen in the garage as well as on a billboard above the garage advertising "Uptown cosmetics". Brinkley arrives in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce as Joel and the mechanics dance with her. The video depicts Joel and his backup singers working as auto mechanics. The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along.Christie Brinkley appears as the main character of the video and later married Joel. We invite you to click on the video of Joel’s 1984 live performance of “Uptown Girl” in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Wembley Stadium in London. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. The 64-year-old Joel, who was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island, is one of the most prolific and successful recording artists of all time, with more than 150 million records sold worldwide.
at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted in 11 other countries. Brinkley famously appeared in Joel’s music video as the “uptown girl” and the couple would eventually marry in 1985. The song was to be called “Uptown Girls” (plural).Īfter breaking up with Macpherson, he began dating Brinkley and changed the name of the song to “Uptown Girl” (singular). Joel began dating Macpherson and wrote the song with her and her girlfriends in mind. While it is widely believed that the subject of the song is Joel’s ex-wife and supermodel Christie Brinkley, Brit writers Michael Heatley and Frank Hopkinson revealed in The Girl in the Song: The True Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics, that Joel actually penned “Uptown Girl” about an earlier love interest, supermodel Elle Macpherson.Īccording to the authors, Joel drew his inspiration for the song while encountering Brinkley, Macpherson and singer Whitney Houston while on vacation in the Caribbean. He sings, “Uptown girl / You know I can’t afford to buy her pearls / But maybe someday when my ship comes in / She’ll understand what kind of guy I’ve been / And then I’ll win.” In this 1983 song from his album An Innocent Man, Joel struggles with the fact that he can’t keep up with the rich guys - at least when it comes to lavishing gifts upon the uptown girl. Today we have rock legend Billy Joel performing “Uptown Girl,” his international hit about a “backstreet guy” trying to romance a privileged girl from the high-class part of town.
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you awesome songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics.
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