I swear Billy Joel was thinking of Clemente when he penned his hit song, "Only the Good Die Young".
How many people were legends as an athlete and as a humanatarian? It's a sin that they don't make them like Mr. Clemente anymore.
Sorry Bill and I hope not :
With these lyrics !
The song was inspired by a high school crush of Billy Joel's, Virginia Callahan. The boy/narrator believes that the girl is refusing him because she comes from a religious Catholic family and that she believes sex before marriage is sinful.[2] He sings,
"You Catholic girls start much too late,
but sooner or later it comes down to fate.
I might as well be the one."
Perceived as "anti-Catholic", the song was banned by many radio stations.[2] "When I wrote 'Only the Good Die Young', the point of the song wasn't so much anti-Catholic as pro-lust," Joel told Performing Songwriter magazine. "The minute they banned it, the album started shooting up the charts." In a 2008 interview, Joel also pointed out one part of the lyrics that virtually all the critics missed – the man in the song failed to get anywhere with the girl, and she kept her chastity