In a recent interview with Rick Beato, @BillyJoel cited "Wichita Lineman" as "one of the best written songs ever" Rick Beato

@billyjoel @rickbeato Absolutely true. Wichita Lineman is amazing on so many levels.

@billyjoel @rickbeato Billy Joel was correct. It’s such a beautiful song. Hats off to you Mr. Webb.

@billyjoel @rickbeato Wichita Lineman was also one of Bob Dylan's favorite songs.

@billyjoel @rickbeato “And I need you more than want you. And I want you for all time.” The best lyrics ever.

@billyjoel @rickbeato “Wichita Linemen” is as about as perfect as a song can be. It should be used in music theory classes as an example of excellence. One of your best @realjimmywebb !

I believe Bob Dylan has said something quite similar. It is gorgeous! #WichitaLineman

@billyjoel @rickbeato Glenn Campbell mastered that song, especially his guitar riffs, they are mesmerizing.

@billyjoel @rickbeato That’s a true statement for sure. I love that song. It’s my favorite. ❤️ Glen Campbell gave a brilliant rendition of it. Takes me back to my childhood. 😊 “And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time” 🎶

@billyjoel @rickbeato Listening to any Jimmy Webb album is like going to songwriting school. "Wichita Lineman", of course, deserves the accolades, but "If These Walls Could Speak" is right up there in the same vicinity. His "Ten Easy Pieces" version is the definitive one for me!

@billyjoel @rickbeato He’s not wrong!

@billyjoel @rickbeato They cancelled all this great music, and forced us to listen to the modern crap they call: "music".

@billyjoel @rickbeato Awesome. I was lucky enough to see/hear Jimmy at a church concert near Morristown NJ about 2016 or thereabouts. What a towering giant of American music.

@billyjoel @rickbeato And I'd have to agree. Such a sumptuous melody, mind transporting lyrics. When you hear those strings you are on the open highway, looking down from the wires across a gorgeous landscape.

@billyjoel @rickbeato I agree. I would also include “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

@billyjoel @rickbeato Hard to disagree. Wichita Lineman is such a great song, exquisitely performed by Glen Campbell and the Wrecking Crew. Takes me back to a particular moment and feeling. Excellent interview with Billy Joel by Rick Beato - laid back yet knowing.

@billyjoel @rickbeato It most definitely is. And the Glen Campbell version is the only hit song I know with a Fender Bass VI solo.❤️❤️❤️

@billyjoel @rickbeato I agree. The best is.... " If you could read my mind,,love.""

@billyjoel @rickbeato As a non-song writer but someone who’s listened to a ton of music I concur.

@billyjoel @rickbeato Cool! Praise well earned sir. It’s nuts to think how that song is kind of just the tip of the iceberg in your incredible career.

@billyjoel @rickbeato Jimmy Webb, along with Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Carole King are our generation’s greatest songwriters, hands down. 🏆🎼🎹🎸

@billyjoel @rickbeato I just started watching the Beato/Joel interview yesterday, and I haven’t gotten to the part where your work comes up, but I have to agree. “Wichita Lineman” is a masterpiece, so full of yearning, still able to surprise me musically and emotionally when I hear it.

@billyjoel @rickbeato After listening to Rock/Pop for over 70 yrs ! I have to agree with him. Galveston is a close second>

@billyjoel @rickbeato Witchita Lineman, Amarillo by Morning and Pancho and Lefty are top tier.

@billyjoel @rickbeato @ADALAWEXPERT I watched my Oklahoma/Arkansas friend Glen Campbell sing this song. Ass kickin' music. Glen was always nice to me. Roy Clark was setting beside me and Crystal Gail. Very cool. Rock on. Bear

@billyjoel @rickbeato The Worlds Greatest Entertainer - SDJ -

@billyjoel @rickbeato He’s right maestro

@billyjoel @rickbeato If only the producer weren't as fast on the draw, we may have gotten the third verse of the song. Jimmy Webb went on a brief vacation and they've already cut the track.

@billyjoel I’m in 100% agreement with Billy on “Wichita Lineman” being one of the greatest songs ever written🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 It was a huge honor to interview you @realjimmywebb

@billyjoel @rickbeato Familiar enough to feel eternal, unresolved enough to keep aching. The song seems as though it could continue forever beyond the fade—another pole, another chord, another mile.

@billyjoel @rickbeato My dad's favorite song. He was a career lineman...

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@billyjoel @rickbeato He's not wrong!

@billyjoel @rickbeato That's not the half of it:

@billyjoel @rickbeato Wow! Is this recent?! Billy looks great! I know he had some health issues. It looks like he is really taking care of himself. So glad to see this. Sending him lots and lots of ❤️