Weekend Video Theatre: Christmas In Fallujah

Coming from NY, I am a huge Billy Joel fan (seen him play MSG several times, with and without Elton John). I'm also a big supporter of his decision after 'River of Dreams' to quit while he was ahead.

Now he has written a new song called 'Christmas in Fallujah', inspired by letters from soldiers in Iraq. Joel doesn't sing the song... he outsourced that part to a local Long Island musician named Cass Dillon. It's available on iTunes, with proceeds going to Homes for Our Troops (they build homes for wounded Iraq/Afghanistan veterans).

Here, Joel and Dillon perform the song live in Chicago-



Not his best song ever, but it has a good message and cause. I am also amused by all the angry (likely conservative) comments on iTunes complaining that Billy Joel shouldn't get political. Yes, god forbid "Cold war kid" Billy Joel-- writer of 'We Didn't Start The Fire', 'Leningrad', 'Allentown', 'Goodnight Saigon', and 'No Man's Land'-- should ever engage in social/political commentary. Of course, these are probably the same type of conservatives who thought Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" or John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" made great campaign anthems until somebody showed them the lyrics.

Maybe they prefer Toby Keith ass-kicking music, but even he apparently opposes this war.