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For the song by Paramore, see Pressure (Paramore song). For the song by Queen, see Under Pressure. “Pressure” is a synthesizer-driven song from 1982 by Billy Joel about difficulty dealing with the stress of daily living. The song was a single from the album The Nylon Curtain. In Night School, a short, one-time show that aired on MTV in 1982, running roughly a half-hour long, in which he answers questions posed by audience members, Billy Joel reveals that the pressure he was talking about in the song was something along the lines of writing pressure and pressure to provide.

When I was starting out and trying to get things going, the pressure was ‘if you don’t get things going, they’re going to throw you out of this apartment,‘ that was that kind of pressure.... Read on...