Old City Bar and Piano Man

[DarkMacek]

There's definitely the same progression going on but I would think that's entirely coincidental. The chorus of Believe is your standard "Axis of Awesome 4 chord song", yet I wouldn't say it stole from Don't Stop Believin'. And of course, the lyrics/themes/melodies are way different.

Oh, I totally agree, I don't think there was any intentional borrowing from Billy when Savatage wrote "Believe," I just noticed the connection when I was trying to learn to play Believe on the piano and it occurred to me that I was hitting the same chords as I did when I was trying to learn "Worse Comes To Worst."  But that's pretty typical of popular music.  I just mentioned it here because we were talking about Billy Joel / TSO connections.  Incidentally, they both have songs named "Vienna," too.

... now I can't stop imagining Kayla Reeves singing Billy Joel's Vienna. Thanks, lol.