Linda Stein's Personal Assistant Arrested for Her Murder

Ten days after former Ramones manager and New York real estate tycoon Linda Stein was found bludgeoned to death in her 5th Avenue apartment, the police have made an arrest. Twenty-six-year-old Natavia Lowery, who worked as Stein's personal assistant, has seemingly all but confessed to the crime, telling officials they had an acrimonious relationship. "It was that Linda just kept yelling at her, over everything" a law enforcement official told The New York Times. "They fought. It was like a continuous thing, like a buildup." Last December Lowery was charged with identity theft.

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Song Stories

“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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