Rachael Ray Campaigns For Hall & Oates' Rock Hall Induction

Hall & Oates were not among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2010. In fact, the Philadelphia duo has never been nominated for the Rock Hall. Talk show host and celebrity chef Rachael Ray believes this is an injustice, and has started a petition to get Hall & Oates into the Hall. The pair appeared on an episode of her show that won't air until November 6th, but Ray's Hall & Oates petition — or the comments section of her blog — has attracted 465 votes.

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Will the support of Ray be enough to get the "Maneater" dudes into the Rock Hall? Some would argue John Oates' moustache alone is worthy of its own wing in the Cleveland museum dubbed the Rock Hall & Oates. Have your say in our own comments section, and check out a preview of Hall & Oates on the Rachael Ray Show here.

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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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