Katy Perry Visits Occupy Wall Street

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Katy Perry made an appearance at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan on Saturday. The singer, who went to the site along with her husband, Russell Brand, and music mogul Russell Simmons, documented the visit and promoted the Occupy Wall Street live stream on her Twitter feed. The duo downplayed their flashy images for the occasion, bundling up and wearing sunglasses and beanie caps.

Brand had already visited the protest earlier in the week, and he published his thoughts on the movement on his website. Simmons, clearly a fan of the protest, previously brought Kanye West down to Zuccotti Park to take in the scene.

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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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