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Vienna - Videos Page
(The Stranger) (1977) |
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Words and Music by Billy Joel
Slow down you crazy child You're so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you're so smart tell me why Are you still so afraid? Where's the fire, what's the hurry about? You better cool it off before you burn it out You got so much to do and only So many hours in a day But you know that when the truth is told That you can get what you want Or you can just get old You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through When will you realize...Vienna waits for you Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forgot what you need Though you can see when you're wrong You know you can't always see when you're right, you're right You got your passion you got your pride But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true When will you realize Vienna waits for you Slow down you crazy child And take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while It's alright you can afford to lose a day or two When will you realize... Vienna waits for you. And you know that when the truth is told That you can get what you want Or you can just get old You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through Why don't you realize...Vienna waits for you When will you realize...Vienna waits for you. |
Studio and Live Versions
Lyrics video for "Vienna" from Megan Smith. The fan video for "Vienna" by Victoria Gómez Peláez is no longer on YouTube. There are other fan videos that often use images of sad or lonely teens, like this.
Great live version from a 1977 concert at Nassau Coliseum (audio only).
"Vienna" from a 1978 concert (audio only) at the Sonesta in the Netherlands.
Live version from a 1986 concert in Philadelphia.
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Billy dedicates this performance of "Vienna" to his father Howard Joel at a Q&A session held in Nuremberg, Germany in 1995. They do an impromptu performance together too of "I've Got Music," watch it here.
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Billy performs the song on the Conan O'Brien show in 2005.
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Live from the 12 Gardens album (2006) (audio only)
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Billy sings "Vienna" at the Library of Congress at the Gershwin Prize ceremony and concert in 2014.
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The Making of "Vienna"
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Billy explains why he chose Vienna as a metaphor for growing old and taking it easy, from a Q&A session which is on The Complete Hits boxed set from 1997.
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Phil Ramone discusses "Vienna" in this 2008 interview.
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Billy on "Vienna" from a Town Hall Masterclass with Howard Stern on SiriusXM Radio in 2014 (audio only)
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Billy discusses "Vienna" on SiriusXM Radio in 2016; starting at 11:22 (audio only)
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Billy discusses his love of classical music and visiting Vienna, in this clip from 2020.
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Covers and Fan Videos
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Eugenie Thompson does a nice and nuanced cover of "Vienna." The videography on this is also very well done.
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Great cover of "Vienna" on the ukelele, by Hannah Mac. Nice voice and phrasing.
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Austrian band Grenada covers "Vienna" (Wien wort aud di) in an Austrian dialect of German I believe. (2015). The studio version is no longer available in the US on YouTube but is here for those of you outside the US: https://www.youtube.com/embed/WqqE1sUPxlI
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Saxophone cover of "Vienna" by James E. Green
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Nice fan video set to scenes from the television show "Taxi." The song was featured on the episode "Vienna Waits.
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On the television program Smash, performed by Christian Borle in The Phenomenon (audio only)
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This is a well-done video for "Vienna" featuring clips from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starring Audrey Hepburn.
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"Vienna" was the featured song in the 2004 movie "13 Going on 30."
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Figure skater Ashley Wagner does a beautiful routine to "Vienna" at the 2013 World Championships.
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Ariana Grande's cover of "Vienna." I really don't like this, too bombastic, too contrived, and the piano accompaniment has the subtlety of a hammer. Stop yelling.
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Ben Platt sings "Vienna" in an episode of the Netflix program, The Politician.
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Live performance of "Vienna" by Grace VanderWaal at YouTube in 2019. She does a great job.
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