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Christie Brinkley Details Falling ‘Hopelessly in Love' With Billy Joel

Christie Brinkley recalls falling 'hopelessly in love' with Billy Joel in her memoir 'Uptown Girl,' sharing their love story from 1983

While describing their first meeting at a St. Barts’ dive motel bar in 1983, Brinkley, 71, noted Joel, 75, “definitely didn’t look like a rock star” in People ’s except of the book. “The man was sunburned to a crisp, his face the same color as cranberries and unctuous with oil, which he’d undoubtedly slathered on to soothe the burn, topped by what I like to call ‘the Long Island bubble:’ a carapace of curly shellacked hair popular in the 1980s in parts of suburban New York,” she wrote. The model, 70, was all smiles as she watched Joel, 74, perform “Uptown Girl” during his residency at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday, April 26.

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