Billy Joel’s hit song ‘Only the Good Die Young’ was released in 1977 off his platinum selling album ‘The Stranger’, and went on to become one of the star’s biggest and most beloved hits. ‘I would rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints’ was one of the songs most endearing lyrics, and Keith was – for some inexplicable reason – singing that tune just after midnight while he was walking along the wooden riverwalk near the train bridge.

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