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Description: Billy Joel: The Office Episode That Got Him To License His Music To Rock Band SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: bit.ly/3vVPAEF Check out our Top 25 Favourite Albums Here rockandrolltruestories.com Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! bit.ly/3stnXlN -----CONNECT ON SOCIAL----- Instagram: instagram.com/rocknrolltruestories Facebook: facebook.com/RNRTrueStories Twitter: twitter.com/rocktruestories Blog: rockandrolltruestories.com #theoffice #michaelscott #billyjoel #rockband3 I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. I had previously done a video about how one rock n’ roll joke cost the office 60,000 the link is down below. But today i want to talk about how a critics’ review of one episode of the office made billy joel do something he’s never done in his career. Stay tuned for the full story. I always felt like the first five seasons’s of the office were really good. Season 6 while still good and having some great episodes it just feels uneven. The whole jim becoming a co-manager and the will they won’t they romance between Erin and Andy just didn’t work. As Gary would say, it was a bit of a stumble. season 6 episode 25 titled the chump we see jim and pam struggling to stay awake in the office after not getting enough sleep after becoming new parents. Meanwhile michael has learned that he is in a relationship with a married woman named Donna. It’s thought that Michael has dumped Donna upon learning the news. Pam famously says during the episode “When Michael has a broken heart, the whole place comes to a halt.” As a result, she tries to rally the office to help lift michael’s spirits post-breakup, but Michael seems in a surprisingly positive mood. Pam and Jim who try always to avoid hanging out with michael outside of work invite their boss over for dinner telling him they can order hooters and play billy joel rock band Michael responds: “That exists” to which Pam says “yes” Following the episode entertainment weekly would publish a review of the episode that read Pam who tried to choreograph the whole office into a post-breakup support group for Michael…But Michael was curiously unresponsive. He liked the ice cream, of course, but he didn’t like it enough to drown his sorrows in it. Nor did he respond when Jim and Pam invited him over for dinner and Rock Band: Billy Joel, which let’s hope never actually exists ever. It would be the last sentence that caught the attention of Billy Joel. While yes there were band specific rock bands like beatles rock band and green day rock band there wasn’t an actual billy joel version. This review was published on May 14, 2010 a day after the episode aired. Later that year in October Billy Joel gave an interview to USA Today where he stated the following “I’ve never allowed my music to be used in a game before,” he’d say but an entertainment weekly review of NBC’s the office changed his mind. Alluding to an episode in which the characters mention a rock band featuring billy joel (joel would add in the same interview “the critic wrote something like god forbid that should ever happen so i called my people and said get me on that rock band game. Then i wrote the critic saying every time i get a cheque i’ll give him a little nod. The story doesn’t end there though. The timing of everything seemed perfect because Harmonix the developer behind rock band franchise would release my favourite game in the series rock band 3 in october of 2010. One of the new features was the introduction of keyboards and 3 part harmonies. You could use the new plastic keyboard instrument or your own midi keyboard and it opened up so many new artists we maybe wouldn’t have seen before in rock band or at least allow us to properly experience songs. You could play with up to 7 people now and coming out the same year was Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, which lets face it really had no real new features. Both games featured Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Who would want to play bohemian rhapsody in guitar hero when you could play the same song in rock band 3 with keys and vocal harmonies. Another great feature of the rock band franchise was that they had weekly downloadable content. Nearly two months after rock band 3 launched it was announced that 12 songs from billy joel would be released as downloadable content. In the spring of 2011 another 6 pack of billy joel songs called the piano challenge pack would follow. Darren Franich would be the reviewer who wrote the office episode review for entertainment weekly. He would write a follow up article on October 2