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Yep, sure do...

Make Me Smile - Chicago
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Harmony - Elton John
Rocket Man - Elton John
Daniel - Elton John
Your Song - Elton John
Annie's Song - John Denver
Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Sarah Smile - Hall & Oates
Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
Mandy - Barry Manilow
I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow
Ready To Take a Chance Again - Barry Manilow
All I Know - Art Garfunkle
I Only Have Eyes for You - Art Garfunkle
My Little Town - Simon & Garfunkle
Haven't Got Time for the Pain - Carly Simon
NoBody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Aubrey - Bread
Everything I Own - Bread
If - Bread
Without You - Nilsson
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Laughter in the Rain - Neil Sedaka
I'm Not Lisa - Jessie Coulter
For All We Know - Carpenters
Top of the World - Carpenters
The Way of Love - Cher
Sometime When We Touch - Dan Hill
Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester
Night are Forever - England Dan & John Ford Coley
I Don't Know How to Love Him - Helen Ready
I Feel the Earth Move - Carol King
Sweet Seasons - Carol King
Do You Know - Diana Ross
It's My Turn - Diana Ross
A Little Good News - Anne Murray
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
This is for all the Lonely People - America
Daisy Jane - America
Beth - Kiss
I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Barry Gibb
Living Inside Myself - Gino Vanelli
Midnight Confessions - Grass Roots
The Air That I Breath - The Hollies
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Greatest American Hero (Theme) - Joey Scarbury
Please Don't Go - KC and the Sunshine Band
Eres Tu - Mocedadas
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
Can You Read My Mind - Maureen McGovern
Cracklin' Rose - Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Send In The Clowns - Judy Collins

I play them all, they all work very well on the piano. I can't think anymore... but I could go on and on and on...

I'm surprised no one mentioned Billy Preston yet. The Top 40 hits I remember best were "Nothing From Nothing" and "Will It Go Round In Circles."

Billy Preston and Serita - With You I'm Born Again. Sucky song. All the girls love it, so I play it - but I hate it.

Actually no....


I don't remember much of the seventies...

lungfish, I can play "Martha My Dear." Very fun song.

What a great thread! I'd like to add:

Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three
Anything by Carole King

And speaking of the '80's - remember "Making Love out of Nothing at all"? Super cheesy but fun (and easy) to play!

Elaine

I've been struggling with MMD for months now, especially the second measure, trying to duplicate the recording as closely as possible. Do you have any insights on that second measure?

How close to the recording can you get? I've heard many attempts but nobody I've heard so far gets anywhere close to the original. Do you have anything up on youtube I can look at? Thanks in advance.

No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm8fZ6WS5Y

I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SIfLzccbc

Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYv1OpvrMP8

Nobody Home - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87JATb4sLc

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0dPJdzm1M

Let em in - Paul McCartney (Wings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta6XPCjKIwY

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-O3kYrDPbI

Hello guys!
I'm convinced that there is no music in the Universe that would be impossible to play on piano.
As for the Rock music, sometimes you can play literally almost everything like in original, or sometimes you can "adjust" Rock to piano's nature. But anyway, it's always enjoyable and fun!
I'm classically trained pianist, but deep inside I'm a "Rocker" :-)
Also I like making sheets for my arrangements. So if you like them, you can let me know and I will send them to you for free.
Here is "Welcome to the jungle"

This is "Soldier of Fortune"

Feel free to talk to me

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing

Thank you, Arizona Sage!

some of my favorites-

It's too late- Carole King
Running on Empty- Jackson Browne
Moondance- Van Morrison
My Life- Billy Joel
Tiny Dancer- Elton John
Lady Madonna- Beatles
Haven't Met You Yet- Michael Buble
Still the same - Bob Seger
Stay - Rihanna
Tenth Avenue Freezeout - Bruce Springsteen

I found an amazing arrangement of "Shine on you crazy diamond" by Johannes Schenk

Enjoy! You really will.

This is amazing work.

Yes, just breathtaking!

I love seeing (or hearing as the case may be) classic rock and mainstream music reinvented on the piano. So many examples out there of this...Here's an artist with a very tasteful take on the Rush song, Broon's Bane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d05c1COpk

Brad Mehldau does a fantastic version of Blackbird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRLQ7qGoJq4

as well as the Beach Boys classic, "God Only Knows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnwNr97VmNU

Thank you for sharing, Arizona Sage!
The ostinato in "Blackbird" is hypnotizing, especially because the "reinvention" is much longer than the original.

There are at least 4 different versions of him playing Blackbird...they are all distinctly different but all wonderful. The version with his Trio is my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIs9c3C2eJw