I know I've already featured this song at some point before, but just the other day I was reading the wiki on this song and I came across this:
"During the fadeout the interlude repeats
five times with the backup vocalists singing, 'Keep it to yourself,
it's my life,' over the last eight intervals.
Also as the song fades out, Billy Joel can be heard making a puking
noise. It is possible that his ex-girlfriend (who he sings about in the
song) made him sick to his stomach by smothering him."
I just about puked with laughter upon reading this, but puking is never really kosher at the workplace, so I just kept it to myself ("it's my life").
While it is true that you can hear him making a "puking noise" during the end fadeout, it was fairly obvious that some fool just added the supposition that Billy Joel was puking in response to an oppressive girlfriend.
The comment has since been ammended on Wikipedia and is no longer written on the entry Not bad--it had only been a day or two since I had read that and gone back to harvest the quote for this entry. Consequently I had to dig around in the wiki history archives for said quote. But it was definitely worth it. Now, everytime I hear this song (which is quite often these days since I am laboring through it on the piano now), I will imagine Billy Joel hurling his guts out at the end of the song.
It's a very Billy-Joel-esque thing to do.
Other old puking songs:
"Science Fiction Double Feature" by Me First and the Gimee Gimees
Sadly, as far as other songs that have puking noises in them is concerned, this is the only one that I can think of off the top of my head.
