Loretta Lynn Hospitalized with Pneumonia

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn postponed her show  in Ashland, Ky., Saturday because she is hospitalized with pneumonia.

An announcement on the Paramount Arts Center's website said the show would be rescheduled at a later, unspecified date.

The country singer and songwriter has been touring in celebration of 50 years in the music business and is scheduled to perform in Durham, N.C., tomorrow night. According to the box office of the Durham Performing Arts Center, that performance had not yet been canceled.

TMZ reported that the country singer and songwriter had knee surgery replacement last month.

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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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