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The song was also released as the fifth single for the European Special Edition and Asian Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc of the group's second album, Coast to Coast (2000). It was also the 2001 Comic Relief charity single. It was released on March 5, 2001, as the first single from the album. " Uptown Girl" (rereleased as double A-side with " Angels Wings" in 2002) was recorded by Irish boy band Westlife for their third studio album, World of Our Own. Westlife international singles chronology " Queen of My Heart" / " When You're Looking Like That" Olivia Rodrigo mentioned the song and Joel in her hit single " deja vu", which became a Top 3 U.S. Mark Rivera – percussion, backing vocals.Russell Javors – rhythm electric guitar.Billy Joel – Baldwin SF-10 acoustic piano, lead and background vocals.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. It has sold over 1.06 million copies as of 2017. The song was the 19th biggest-selling single of the 1980s in the United Kingdom, selling 975,000 copies. It was the second biggest-selling single of 1983 in the United Kingdom behind only Culture Club's " Karma Chameleon", which Joel had knocked off the number-one position on November 1, 1983. It also reached number one in the United Kingdom for five weeks, his only number-one hit in the country. "Uptown Girl" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks from November 12 to December 10, 1983. At the end of the video Joel and Brinkley ride off on a motorcycle. A poster of Brinkley can be seen in the garage as well as on a billboard above the garage advertising "Uptown cosmetics". Brinkley arrives in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce as Joel and the mechanics dance with her.
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The video depicts Joel and his backup singers working as auto mechanics. Claudia Schiffer plays the "uptown girl" and actors Robert Bathurst, James Wilby, Ioan Gruffudd, Crispin Bonham-Carter and Tim McInnerny are seen as customers of the diner.Christie Brinkley appears as the main character of the video and later married Joel. In the music video, the members of the group work as busboys in a diner. In the Netherlands it took third place in the Top 40 and second place in the Mega Top 100, while in Flanders it took fifth place in the Ultratop 50. It became a number 1 hit in the UK and Ireland and was the biggest selling single of the year. In 2001, "Uptown Girl" was covered by the boy band Westlife for their album World of Our Own it also served as a single on the occasion of the Comic Relief charity. This woman is played by Christie Brinkley, who would marry Joel two years later. In the song's music video, Joel plays a car mechanic who, with three other mechanics, tries to hit on an upper-class woman ("uptown girl") whose car has just stopped at the gas station. In the Netherlands it came to eighth place in the Top 40 and tenth place in the National Hitparade, while in Flanders it came in third place in the Ultratop 50. In the United States it peaked at number three, while it even became a number 1 hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia. Like all songs on An Innocent Man, the song was an ode to an artist important in Joel's childhood in this case Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.Īlthough "Uptown Girl" managed to match the success of predecessor "Tell Her About It", it became a worldwide hit. According to Joel, it was originally about his relationship with Macpherson, but eventually it would also be about Brinkley, whom he would marry a short time later.
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The song was originally titled "Uptown Girls" and was conceived during an occasion when Joel was with Christie Brinkley, Whitney Houston and his then-girlfriend Elle Macpherson. Written by Joel himself, "Uptown Girl" is about a simple laborer who wants to arrange a date with an upper-class woman. In 2001 it was covered by Irish boy band Westlife, who released it on March 6 of that year as the lead single from their album World of Our Own. On September 29 of that year, the song was released as the second single from the album. The song appeared on his 1983 album An Innocent Man. "Uptown Girl" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel.