August 22, 2021 Records of the Day

After Billy Joel played “Just the Way You Are” for his then wife Elizabeth, she asked “Do I get the publishing too?” Later Billy would say, “In retrospect, I probably should have known right then and there that the relationship was doomed. I had written ‘Just the Way You Are’ for someone who had changed.” The 45, “Just the Way You Are,” with picture sleeve is worth no more than $10.00. Maybe she should have asked for a mono copy of the Billy Joel album, “The Stranger.” That could get her and you up to $2,000.00.

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