There are plenty of reasons to become a pop star (free drugs, high-profile arrests, your mug plastered in insensitively snide blogs), but one of the foremost is being able to marry a totally hot young wife, then 20 years later, marry another totally hot young wife.

Let’s face it, Billy Joel was a great pop writer in his day, but he hasn’t put out anything memorable since he “retired from pop music” with River of Dreams in 1993…(and between you and I, that album wasn’t all that stellar). But still, he’s Billy Joel. He freaking wrote “The Piano Man.” In 1985 he married Christie Brinkley (former swimsuit model, current MILF). Let’s take a look of what Billy Joel looked like in the mid ’80s.

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Okay, a bit pudgy. Plus that leather jacket really makes his natural wimpiness shine through. Alright, now Brinkley?

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Yow. 1983 makeup and hairdo aside, that’s a legitimately good looking woman. Looking down the track list of Billy Joels’ Greatest Hits Vol 1, you see what she might have found initially attractive in him.

Brinkley and Joel divorced in 1994. Back in the Feudal age, kings had to chop off some heads and, well, break ties with the Catholic Church to pull off that kind of coup. Nowadays, all you have to do is write “She’s Got A Way” and look something like this:

Billy Joel, stop looking at me

Yet he’s married to television personality and chef Katie Lee:

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Keep in mind he hasn’t released a hit single since 1989 (”We Didn’t Start The Fire” which was way rad and heavy as hell when you were like 11 years old), yet he still gets to marry hot, talented young women (in Katie lee’s case, 32 years his junior) once he divorces formerly young, currently still hot, talented women. The freaking nerve…

They were on Oprah yesterday, and well, here’s the damn stupid clip:

Billy Joel, I am officially jealous.

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