Fact #195815
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In a school questionnaire, 17-year-old Billy Joel states that, among other things, he likes "good music, New York City, pretty girls and Chinese food". He also says he hates "loud-voiced people, phony people, prejudiced people" and declares that Nat King Cole was the best "swinger of popular music." Among his other answers, he reveals that he wants to know "why Negroes are persecuted" and that when he grows up "I want to be successful."