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Speaker 1: So that is new music from Billy Joel, the legend

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Speaker 1: Billy Joel, one of the architects of rock and roll,

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Speaker 1: one of two point seven Kiss FM. So this kind

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Speaker 1: of music history that we got this and this song

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Speaker 1: being played all over the world right now as we

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Speaker 1: just got it. It was co written. Billy Joel is

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Speaker 1: an artist that said he'll sort of never do new music,

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Speaker 1: never release new music. He's performed with Elton John I

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Speaker 1: mean just like he is a he's a god in

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Speaker 1: the music business. And Freddie Wexler, who's going to come

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Speaker 1: on with us here in a second. He produced that

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Speaker 1: song and he talked Billy into coming back to do

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Speaker 1: new music. And Freddy has written songs for Ariana Grande,

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Speaker 1: Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber Black, Pink Pink, Selene Dion. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the dude's stud and he goes up to Billy and

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Speaker 1: he's like, you need to do more music. I think, oh, look,

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Speaker 1: Freddy Rexler and Billy Joel. I didn't know Billy Joel

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Speaker 1: was joining us right now. Billy, I didn't know you

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Speaker 1: were listening in on that. It's an honor to have

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Speaker 1: you here. But I thought, in my role in this job,

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Speaker 1: I was never going to get the opportunity to have

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Speaker 1: this moment because I thought I heard you say you

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Speaker 1: aren't going to do this anymore, that you aren't going

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Speaker 1: to release new music.

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Speaker 2: I thought so too. I was convinced of it.

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Speaker 1: What changed your mind, Billy? He did for so Freddy

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Speaker 1: you got to give the backs because I literally when

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Speaker 1: I heard this was happening on the calendar and I

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Speaker 1: heard there was a song, I didn't really understand it.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people are going, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is a blessing. But how and if you're so convincing,

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Speaker 1: we want to know what you did to convince this legend,

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Speaker 1: this man to release new music.

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Speaker 3: For me, I became a songwriter because of Billy Joel

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Speaker 3: and I always wanted to meet Billy. He was really

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Speaker 3: my greatest inspiration as a songwriter. And ultimately it happened.

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Speaker 3: It was not like a quick meeting and Okay, great,

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Speaker 3: let's write a song by any stretch you tell him,

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Speaker 3: You tell him from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Look in my mind thirty years ago, that was it.

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Speaker 2: I was done and I didn't want to get back

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Speaker 2: in harness again. I was done writing songs. Although I've

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Speaker 2: been continuing to write music, instrumental music, and a number

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Speaker 2: of people have tried to talk me into writing new songs,

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Speaker 2: going into the studio, making a new recording, going through

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Speaker 2: the whole process again, YadA, YadA, YadA. And I was

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Speaker 2: kind of burned out on the music business. The fun

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Speaker 2: had gone out of it, and the whole reason I

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Speaker 2: got into music in the first place because it was fun.

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Speaker 2: I loved rock and roll. I loved the fun aspect

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Speaker 2: of it, the performance of it, the crowd, noise, the

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Speaker 2: girl screaming, the whole nine yards. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: And I had to try to rediscover the fun.

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Speaker 3: So I put on a wig and I.

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Speaker 2: Right, well, I just think if it's not fun, it's yeah,

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Speaker 2: what's the point. I mean, because you can hear if

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Speaker 2: somebody's having a good time or not. It comes through

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Speaker 2: in the music.

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Speaker 3: And I said to Billy, look, I don't believe you

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Speaker 3: can't write songs anymore. You don't, you you're because i'd

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Speaker 3: heard these different things where you won't write songs. And

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Speaker 3: he kind of said, you know, well, believe whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: I don't care what you believe. And I don't know

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Speaker 3: what came over me, but I know, you kind of

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Speaker 3: got to take your shot when you have it. I say, well,

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Speaker 3: do you have any unfinished songs, any songs you started

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Speaker 3: in the seventies or eighties that you never finished? He said, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 3: I've unfinished songs. And I said, well, why don't you

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Speaker 3: let me finish them?

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Speaker 1: So, Billy, I just I'm so curious to know. Was

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Speaker 1: it just a feeling, it was just an instinct? Was

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Speaker 1: just a I mean, were you in a good mood?

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Speaker 1: Was it a gut thing?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What was it? Because this actually alternates the history of

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Speaker 1: rock and roll by you releasing new music today.

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Speaker 2: This was a guy who was a songwriter in his

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Speaker 2: own right, and when we started talking about the craft

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Speaker 2: of songwriting, the actual job of it, the work, I

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Speaker 2: recognize he knows what he's called talking about. And he

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Speaker 2: had asked me a key question. He goes, let me

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Speaker 2: ask you something. When you're recording and you are singing

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Speaker 2: one of your own songs, are you ever thinking of

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Speaker 2: somebody else doing it? And I said always, I'm always

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Speaker 2: thinking of somebody else. I got into this to be

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Speaker 2: a songwriter, not to be a pop star. I was

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Speaker 2: thinking of writing songs for other people. And he keyed

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Speaker 2: in on that and he goes, well, that's how I

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Speaker 2: do it. And I did a performance of this song

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Speaker 2: in a recording studio. Well, Freddie was in the control room.

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Speaker 2: I came back in the control room. I listened back

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Speaker 2: and I said, I don't hate that.

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Speaker 1: I don't, which is a great compliment exactly. Co writer

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Speaker 1: producer Billy Joel's new single, turn the Lights Back on

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Speaker 1: Freddie Weser and of course I one and only Billy

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Speaker 1: Joel will look for a tour. Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations both of you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, gentleman, say