Billy Joel Shes Always A Woman HD

She s Always a Woman is a song from Billy Joel s 1977 album The Stranger. Billy Joel wrote this song about his first wife, Elizabeth, whom he was married to from 19731982. When they first got together, she was still married to Joel s drummer Jon Small. Billy was so tormented by his affair that he made a halfhearted attempt to kill himself by drinking furniture polish. Ironically, the rocker was saved by the very man he was betraying when Jon Small rushed him to hospital. Joel s thenwife Elizabeth was also his manager and worked in the music industry at a time when very few women did. Billy saw her take a lot of gruff in the working world and get called a lot of names, which led to him writing this song to defend her, in a way. He explained: If you look at the structure of the song, it says, she can do this to you, she can do that to you, but she s always a woman to That was the point of the song: they re bitching about her, and I m saying, you can bitch all you want, she s great at business and she