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Billy Joel serenades ex-wife Christie Brinkley with Uptown Girl... before their daughter Alexa Ray joins him on stage for performance during Madison Square Garden residency in NYC


Billy Joel's Madison Square Garden residency on Friday turned out to be a family affair with the musician singing Uptown Girl for ex-wide Christie Brinkley and their daughter joining him on stage.

During the performance, the 1980s original supermodel could be seen swaying and dancing along as her ex-husband belted out the catchy melodies and lyrics, which ended up being shown on the massive, overhead monitor, which elicited and even bigger smile from the Uptown Girl, herself. Billy Joel, 74, serenaded his ex-wife Christie Brinkley with a version of his 1983 hit song Uptown Girl, which was written about his soon-to-be wife, during his residency show at Madison Square Garden on Friday, April 26 Back in 2010, Joel revealed told Howard Stern that he decided to make changes to the tune and made it specifically about Brinkley and renamed it Uptown Girl after he stopped dating fellow top model Elle Macpherson.

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