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When Billy Joel managed to persuade supermodel Christie Brinkley to come back to his New York apartment for the first time, he tried to act cool.
Secretly, the teenager inside him was screaming 'Yes', but when he got to the building which overlooked Central Park, he was confronted with a problem part of him wished his friends could have seen.
For as he opened the door, a 19-year-old Elle Macpherson was already stood there, waiting for him.
A new biography by Fred Schruers reveals that Brinkley left the pair that night, but she ended up marrying The Piano Man in 1985, and would inspire his album 'An Innocent Man'.In 'Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography,' the singer lays bare his history of suicide attempts, his tumultuous marriages — including one to supermodel Brinkley — and how he's now trying to keep his life together.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee travelled to the Caribbean island of St. Barts after he split with his first wife Elizabeth Weber in 1982.
It was there, while playing in a piano bar, that he met Elle Macpherson, then just 19, and Christie Brinkley, 28.
The pair were standing alongside him with the then undiscovered Whitney Houston. All of them at the time were trying to woo Joel for his attention.Brinkley, who starred in Joel's music video for Uptown Girl, told Schurers that Whitney was telling him 'I can sing', while Macpherson 'draped herself on the piano like Michelle Pfeiffer [in The Fabulous Baker Boys].'
When they returned to New York, Brinkley and Macpherson competed. Joel said that he 'felt like a teenager again' as he dated the pair at the same time.
The first time Brinkley went home with Joel, the child inside him from Hicksville, Long Island was screaming 'Yes', but when he saw Mcpherson inside, the other side of said: 'Even as part of me thought, "Oh, God, no," another part of me was going, "If my friends could see me now." '
Brinkley who didn't seem phased by the situation left, but she was the one Joel loved.
They married in 1985, and they conceived their daughter, Alexa Ray, on their wedding night.
Joel met his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, in 1970 and was smitten from the start.
'She wasn’t like a lot of the other girls I knew at that time who had taken home ec and cooking classes,' he recounted. 'She was intelligent and not afraid to speak her mind, but could also be seductive.'
Joel began a relationship with her, in spite of the fact that Weber was married to Jon Small, the drummer of Joel's short-lived duo Attila, with whom she had a young son named Sean.
When Small uncovered the infidelity, Weber split, leaving both him and Joel. While her husband was left alone, it was Joel who took her disappearance the hardest.
One day, Joel took a fatal dose of the anesthetic Nembutal and phoned Small to apologize. 'The next thing I remember, I woke up in the hospital and learned that they had pumped my stomach,' he told Schruers.
It was Small who saved Joel's life, rushing to Joel's mother's Long Island home, finding Joel lying on the floor and getting him medical attention.
Another suicide attempt ended with Joel checking into a mental health center, where he found himself surrounded by others who were not as lucky.
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Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook'The people I was locked up with were never going to be able to overcome their problems, whereas mine were all self-made. I can fix this, I thought.'
Weber returned, to Joel this time, not Small, and began to manage the songwriter's career, which began to take off even as he medicated his depression with a steady stream of alcohol.
Though friends found Weber controlling and brusque, Joel was enchanted, writing singles such as 'She's Got A Way' and 'She’s Always a Woman' for her.
Joel describes the relationship now as a transaction. He says when he debuted 'Just the Way You Are' for her on her birthday, she asked him deadpan 'Do I get the publishing, too?'
The relationship entangled Weber's brother Frank in the finances as well, and years after she and Joel finally divorced, the songwriter found Frank had siphoned $30million out of his fortune.
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