The disturbing 1973 song Billy Joel concedes “didn’t age well”Back in the early 1970s, before Billy Joel became a major musical player in 1977, thanks to ‘Just The Way You Are’, he didn’t dream that these songs he was writing would be talking points more than 50 years later. However, if a Genie granted him three wishes, I’d bet a fiver that he’d use one to delete his 1973 song ‘Captain Jack’, which appeared on Piano Man. When I’m doing the song, I feel kinda dreary and I don’t like doing the song anymore, although we’ll probably do it again.” As Joel suspected, ‘Captain Jack’ eventually sprang back into his setlist but only as a one-off in 2023. He’s no longer the same person who penned ‘Captain Jack’ in the ’70s, and it was put to rest for good reason.