{"id":4506,"date":"2014-07-22T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/library-of-congress-honoring-billy-joel-with-gershwin-prize\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:55:11","slug":"library-of-congress-honoring-billy-joel-with-gershwin-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/library-of-congress-honoring-billy-joel-with-gershwin-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Honoring Billy Joel With Gershwin Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/19\/Billy_Joel_Shankbone_NYC_2009.jpg\/220px-Billy_Joel_Shankbone_NYC_2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>The Library of Congress is honoring Billy Joel with its Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Librarian James Billington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/today\/pr\/2014\/14-122.html\" target=\"_blank\">said Tuesday<\/a> the singer-songwriter, whose hits include &#8220;Piano Man&#8221; and &#8220;Uptown Girl,&#8221; will receive the prize in Washington in November. &#8220;Billy Joel is a storyteller of the highest order,&#8221;  Billington said. &#8220;There is an intimacy to his songwriting that bridges  the gap between the listener and the worlds he shares through music.  When you listen to a Billy Joel song, you know about the people and the  place and what happened there. And while there may be pain, despair and  loss, there is ultimately a resilience to it that makes you want to go  to these places again and again.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Gershwin Prize honors a living artist&#8217;s lifetime  achievement in music. Previous recipients include Paul Simon, Stevie  Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and  the late Hal David, and Carole King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Joel is among the world&#8217;s most popular recording artists.  He has said his piano-driven compositions spring from personal  experiences, and that he strives to write songs that capture and  transcend those moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With a career spanning 50 years in the entertainment industry, Joel is the sixth top-selling artist of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard Biz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress is honoring Billy Joel with its Gershwin Prize for Popular Song&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}