Anne Valerie Ter sat on the short black bench in her piano teacher’s basement ... As the dynamics in the sheet music escalated, demanding louder and sharper tones, so did the intensity pulsating ...

On the day of his performance, train company Great Western Railway (GWR) wrote on X that it took Joel to his gig, by referencing his 1983 song “Uptown Girl” and 1973 track “Piano Man”.