Hang Out With Jay-Z at a Knicks Game

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Jay-Z has teamed up with the high-end charity auction site charitybuzz.com to give two fans the chance to hang out with him at an upcoming Knicks game at New York's Madison Square Garden. The courtside seats are being valued at $20,000 but the current bid is $16,000. The auction will end on March 30th.

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The money raised from this auction will benefit Manhattan's Stephen Gaynor School for children with learning disabilities. Since Jay-Z is part owner of the New Jersey Nets, the fact that the school happens to be a Manhattan institution may explain why he has chosen to do this at a Knicks game rather than at a Nets match.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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