LEN AUDSLEY with a cover of Billy Joel's "THIS NIGHT" from his 1983 LP, "An Innocent Man"

"Who other than Billy Joel could wrap a 50's style Doo Wop song around a Ludwig Van Beethoven movement and make a hit with it? The chorus: styled from the L.V.B. second movement of Pathetique Sonata, and given proper credit on Billy's album "An Innocent Man". The song is said to have been written about his brief relationship with model Elle Macpherson. A subscriber and friend, recommended I listen to this and possibly do a cover. Thanks Liz, Great Choice!....... I hope you ALL enjoy, AND REMEMBER, if you subscribe, you just might get your request honored!!!" ~~~Len Audsley from the description area of his YouTube Channel.

I have known Len Audsley ever since he started his channel on YouTube in about 2011. He is blessed with an incrediby versatile voice and he has tackled everything you can imagine, from Billy Joel's songs to Led Zeppelin's Black Dog. Considering that Robert Plant was 23 years old when Led Zeppelin did Black Dog, nobody was more shocked than I was when Len tackled "BLack Dog" in his late 60s fairly recently, and nailed it! Robert Plant could not possibly have tackled "Black Dog" in his later years. His voice was too damaged by then. In the same way, I am of the humble opinion that Billy Joel had to bow to Len when it came to "This Night" as well. Here is a link to Len doing Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7h_1mXTxOw

Len Audsley: Life long musician and singer.. Got started in High School.. Always loved the songs of the 60’s and learned at an early age how to sing along! After joining in several local bands throughout the years, he decided to go solo on YouTube covering all those great songs he loved so much! Around 2016 he took his solo show out to the public venues and still has great success.. but mostly loves performing on YouTube and has thousands of followers..
You can check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/justsingit72

The song Len is doing on this video, is called "This Night" and it is a cover of Billy Joel's song of the same name from his 1983 album, "An Innocent Man".
Billy Joel based his song on Ludwig van Beethhoven's three piece Piano Sonata Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. It has remained one of his most celebrated compositions. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities.

Prominent musicologists debate whether or not the Pathétique may have been inspired by Mozart's piano sonata K. 457, since both compositions are in C minor and have three very similar movements. The second movement, "Adagio cantabile", especially, makes use of a theme remarkably similar to one in the spacious second movement of Mozart's sonata. Close similarities have also been noted with Bach's Partita no. 2 in C minor. Both works open with a declamatory fanfare marked Grave, sharing a distinct combination of dotted rhythms, melodic contour, and texture. Furthermore, the first four notes of the Partita's Andante (G–C–D–E♭, prominently repeated throughout the work) are found in the Pathétique as the first notes of important themes – first in the hand-crossing second subject of its first movement (initially transposed), then in the main theme of the Rondo. It is known that Beethoven was familiar with the works of Bach, studying The Well-Tempered Clavier as a youth and returning to his predecessor's compositional styles later in life.

The sonata consists of three movements:

Grave: (Slowly, with solemnity) – Allegro di molto e con brio (Very quickly, with vigour)
Adagio cantabile: (Slowly, in a singing style)
Rondo: Allegro (Quickly)

The chorus in Billy Joels song, "This Night" is based on the 2nd Movement, namely the Adagio Cantabile.

For more information on this Sonata, please go to the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._8_(Beethoven)