![]() The song also shares some similarities to " I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, due to the keyboard and background vocal tape loops Joel and Ramone used. However, the album's producer, Phil Ramone, later contradicted Joel's claim, stating in an interview that they could not afford to exclude the song because Joel did not have that much material from which to choose for the album. The song, which Joel had written for his first wife (and also his business manager at the time) Elizabeth Weber, was not liked by either Joel or his band, and Joel had originally decided against making the track a part of The Stranger, but at the request of both Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow (both were recording in other studios in the same building at the time), he agreed to put the song on the final mix. In an interview on the Howard Stern Radio Show on November 16, 2010, Joel revealed that the inspiration for writing the name of the song and how it sounds in the chorus was directly taken from the last line in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song " Rag Doll", which incidentally was also a larger inspiration for Joel's later song " Uptown Girl". Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming. "Just the Way You Are" garnered two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1979. The song also topped the Billboard Easy Listening Chart for the entire month of January 1978. ![]() 19 respectively), as well as Joel's first gold single in the US. It became both Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single (reaching No. It was released in September 1977 as the album's lead single. " Just the Way You Are" is a song by Billy Joel from his fifth studio album The Stranger (1977). Problems playing this file? See media help.
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