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Only the Good Die Young
"Only the Good Die Young" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 pop rock album, ''The Stranger''. The song was controversial for its time, with the lyrics written from the perspective of a young man determined to deflower a Catholic girl who is a virgin.
==Song information==
The song was inspired by a high school crush of Billy Joel's, Virginia Callahan. The boy/narrator believes that the girl is refusing him because she comes from a religious Catholic family and that she believes sex before marriage is sinful.〔 He sings,
You Catholic girls start much too late,
but sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well be the one.
Attempts to censor the song only made it more popular, after religious groups considered it anti-Catholic,〔The Story Behind Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young". (PerformerSongwriter.com archive ). Retrieved April 24, 2013〕 and pressured radio stations to remove it from their playlists. "When I wrote 'Only the Good Die Young', the point of the song wasn't so much anti-Catholic as pro-lust," Joel told ''Performing Songwriter'' magazine. "The minute they banned it, the album started shooting up the charts." In a 2008 interview, Joel also pointed out one part of the lyrics that virtually all the song's critics missed – the man in the song failed to get anywhere with the girl, and she kept her chastity.〔Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', 2008〕
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