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Billy Joel of Hicksville
1964
Hicksville, New York
Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
He grew up in a Levittown-era tract house here, quit high school to play piano in a bar, and spent a career writing the specific geography of this island into songs the whole country sang, the working towns, the bay men, the diners on the way out east. The high school gave him his diploma in 1992, once he was famous, on the strength of the songs.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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