It was a classic Billy Joel moment. After finding himself seated with the music legend at Howard Stern’s wedding, Train frontman Pat Monahan was so struck by Joel’s down-to-earth nature that he boldly asked him to get up and sing. Monahan’s request? “She’s Always a Woman.”
“He was such a modest, humble, awesome guy that I asked him to sing a Billy Joel song,” Monahan, 57, recalls. “And he went up and sang a James Taylor song because he doesn’t have it in him to be presumptuous enough to think people would want to hear a Billy Joel song.”
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“And So It Goes” that 18 years later, Monahan will take the stage, alongside Joel’s band, to
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