Billy Joel, 1993: What did he know?

🫧 Open on Bubbles In the opening track “No Man’s Land” on Billy Joel’s last album, River of Dreams, is the line: I've seen the children with their boredom and their vacant stares This immediately brought to mind people staring at their smartphones and scrolling endlessly through social media (which admittedly is a problem not just affecting The Youths, but everyone). The thing is, the album and song came out in 1993, which is 33 years ago as I write this. 1993 effectively predates the internet (as the publi