While Billy Joel was known as the 'piano man,' some of his absolute best work came sans keys, and oddly enough, the song at No. 5 on my list of best hit songs from 1980 is probably one of the better guitar rock-n-roll songs of all time.

It's "You May Be Right," and it has the feel of a Stones classic.

And what's made me appreciate Joel so much over the years is his willingness to change up his styles. He has more creative eras than Picasso, and his era -- if you will -- in the early 1980s with songs like "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" were tinged in pop-fueled punk.

Furthermore, if you look at the way Joel dressed back in the day, if you were to see that on a band nowadays, they would be considered uber-indie. Joel in 1980 looks like the lead singer of a band like "The Strokes" or "Interpol" or some such. In other words, even his look was influential.

I'm not so sure this song has a giant place in pop culture history, but Joel's ability to pull it off with excellence proved 100 percent that he didn't have to be confined behind a piano.

No. 5, "You May Be Right" - Billy Joel