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Who is the model on the poster in the Billy Joel 'Uptown Girl' video? (At the 20-30 second mark.)

Question #143496. Asked by serpa.
Last updated May 24 2021.
Originally posted Nov 05 2016 12:19 AM.

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Elle Macpherson

This is the video: link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E
and this is a still picture of the model in the poster at 0:20 to 0:30 link https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/443714664_640.jpg

When you enter the jpg into a google img search link https://images.google.com/ (using the camera icon)
their best guess is Elle Macpherson: link http://tinyurl.com/uptowngirl-googleimages


Nov 05 2016, 6:44 AM
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It's Christie Brinkley. She and Joel were married about two years after this video was made, in which she also appears as the "Uptown Girl". I can't link to any of the sites that have the poster because my FunTrivia account would be immediately terminated, but a quick google image search of "Christie Brinkley poster" shows the poster as the 17th result.

Nov 05 2016, 5:22 PM
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In an Australian TV interview in 2006, Billy Joel said: "The song was originally called 'Uptown Girls' not 'Uptown Girl.' I know it's associated with Christie, but when I started to write that song I had recently divorced prior to meeting her, all the sudden I'm a rock star and divorced. All these women were going to go out with me."

And in a 2010 interview with Howard Stern, he explained he was in the Caribbean on holiday and while playing piano one day he saw Elle McPherson, Christie Brinkley and Whitney Houston watching. Soon after he began dating McPherson - who was 19 at the time. Eventually, he reworked the song so it was about Brinkley and she was in the video. They married, but later divorced.

link https://www.songfacts.com/facts/billy-joel/uptown-girl


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 24 2021.
Nov 06 2016, 12:26 AM
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Link for the 17th result in the google search "Christie Brinkley poster":

link https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e8/de/2b/e8de2b65ba516a249ce4c9e399c8c586.jpg

It is much clearer than the jpg still picture from the video; and shows it's not Elle MacPherson.




Nov 06 2016, 4:15 AM
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