Phoenix Singer Thomas Mars Weds Sofia Coppola

Sophia Coppola and Thomas Mars leaving their wedding ceremony

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Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars married his longtime girlfriend, Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola, on Saturday in Italy. Mars and Coppola were engaged in May, but have two daughters, Romy, 4, and Cosima, 15 months.

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The couple were wed on a 19th-century estate belonging to Coppola's family. The bride's father, director Francis Ford Coppola, walked her down the aisle in a garden ceremony, and several famous family members and friends, such as Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman, George Lucas and Johnny Depp, are said to have been on hand for the festivities.

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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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