Lollapalooza 2007 Video Wrap-Up: Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, TV On the Radio, Ben Harper, Lupe Fiasco and More

This year's Lollapalooza lineup featured some of today's best live bands and Rock Daily sweated it out in the front row to document every last guitar solo, impassioned vocal and stage dive. Check out our on-the-scene video which showcases live performance footage from Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, TV On the Radio, Daft Punk, Muse, the Roots and Amy Winehouse, plus backstage interviews with everyone from Lupe Fiasco and Ben Harper to Paolo Nutini and Jack's Mannequin's Andrew McMahon.

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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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