Joel wrote “Captain Jack“ in late 1971,[2][3] while sitting in his apartment in Oyster Bay, Long Island, looking out the window, trying to find inspiration for a song. Across the street was a housing project, and he observed suburban teenagers going into the project and obtaining heroin from a dealer known as “Captain Jack“.[4] “It’s about coming out of the New York suburbs,“ Joel told John Kalodner in 1974. “But in my travels I have seen a lot of the same suburb all over the country. The song is sort of brutal, but sometimes it is good to be brutal and offend people—it keeps them on their toes.“[5]
The song, according to Joel, is an anti-drug song. He says, “What’s so horrible about an affluent young white teenager’s life that he’s got to shoot heroin? It’s really a song about what I consider to be a pathetic loser kind of lifestyle. I’ve been accused of, ’Oh, this song promotes drug use and masturbation.’ No, no, no. Listen to t
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