{"id":2324878,"date":"2026-03-12T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2324878"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:26:38","slug":"ahead-of-billy-joel-tribute-performers-rob-thomas-pat-monahan-and-matt-nathanson-share-how-the-singer-shaped-their-lives-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ahead-of-billy-joel-tribute-performers-rob-thomas-pat-monahan-and-matt-nathanson-share-how-the-singer-shaped-their-lives-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Billy Joel Tribute, Performers Rob Thomas, Pat Monahan and Matt Nathanson Share How the Singer Shaped Their Lives and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a classic Billy Joel<\/a> moment. After finding himself seated with the music legend at Howard Stern<\/a>\u2019s wedding, Train frontman Pat Monahan<\/a> was so struck by Joel\u2019s down-to-earth nature that he boldly asked him to get up and sing. Monahan<\/a>\u2019s request? \u201cShe\u2019s Always a Woman<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was such a modest, humble, awesome guy that I asked him to sing a Billy Joel song,\u201d Monahan, 57, recalls. \u201cAnd he went up and sang a James Taylor<\/a> song because he doesn\u2019t have it in him to be presumptuous enough to think people would want to hear a Billy Joel song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDad\u2019s really self-deprecating!\u201d confirms his musician daughter Alexa Ray Joel<\/a>, 40. \u201cHe\u2019s always poking fun at himself and doesn\u2019t lean into his fame or celebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd So It Goes<\/a>\u201d that 18 years later, Monahan will take the stage, alongside Joel\u2019s band, to perform \u201cShe\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was a classic Billy Joel moment. After finding himself seated with the music legend at Howard Stern\u2019s wedding, Train frontman Pat Monahan was so struck by Joel\u2019s down-to-earth nature that he boldly asked him to get up and sing. Monahan\u2019s request? \u201cShe\u2019s Always a Woman.\u201d \u201cHe was such a modest, humble, awesome guy that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2324878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ahead-of-Billy-Joel-Tribute-Performers-Rob-Thomas-Pat-Monahan.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324880,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324878\/revisions\/2324880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}