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Permalink Reply by N.Steiger on February 3, 2015 at 10:36am

I hate it, this was not signed by paul in my opinion. BUT when he does personalize he does it similar in that he does not lift the pen up to form letters. But his wife or tour manager would know this and clearly they do cause that isn't Pauls signature IMO

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on February 3, 2015 at 12:47pm

Have to agree it is not his signature. I tried to get him here last week in NZ and he was not signing at all

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Permalink Reply by John Carpenter on February 3, 2015 at 1:18pm

Yes, unfort No Good.  Its hard to believe a guy who hardly ever signs IP is honoring free TTM requests.  One of the toughest autographs in the music business to obtain.

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Permalink Reply by Surfin82 on February 3, 2015 at 2:37pm

I knew it was too good to be true. It just didn't look quite right.

 While I have you guys here, can you please check out this Billy Joel I received from a venue a couple weeks ago?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on February 4, 2015 at 11:16am

I dont think thats close at all, sorry.

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Permalink Reply by Surfin82 on February 4, 2015 at 1:18pm

Thanks, Steve. Is that is reference to the Paul Simon, Billy Joel, or both?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on February 4, 2015 at 4:41pm

Both, sorry

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Permalink Reply by Surfin82 on February 5, 2015 at 7:09pm

I'm really torn on the Billy Joel. While he rarely signs his full name, here are a couple examples (one from a CharityBuzz.com auction and another from an in-person encounter) that look similar.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on February 6, 2015 at 5:18am

Maybe he did at one time, and I apologize for lack of knowledge on that.  I am not an expert on Joel, but have gotten him IP 3 times, first being 1986 and last being about 5 years ago.  None of them were full name sigs like the ones shown here.  Perhaps some Joel experts on here would know more.

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Permalink Reply by Surfin82 on February 6, 2015 at 7:03am

I do appreciate your input, Steve. Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Steverino on February 5, 2015 at 12:03pm

I posted this a while ago..   as there are some here familiar with his signature perhaps someone might comment....   I got this from some dealer in the late '70s or early '80s.  What do you think?

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