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Billy Joel

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Wikipedia:
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is the one of the best-selling albums in the United States by discs shipped.

Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards throughout his career. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006). In 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation's highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts. Except for the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah", Joel stopped writing and also releasing (with further exception for the 1997 three songs newly recorded on Greatest Hits Volume III) pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams. However, he continues to tour, and he plays songs from all eras of his solo career in his concerts.

The Stranger


Released September 29, 1977
Recorded A&R Recording, Inc., 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City, July–August 1977
Genre Rock
Length 42:13
Label Family Productions/Columbia
Producer Phil Ramone

The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on September 29, 1977 by Columbia Records . While his four previous albums had been moderately successful, The Stranger became Joel's true critical and commercial breakthrough, spending six weeks at #2 on the U.S. album charts. Considered his magnum opus, it remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date, and was ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

1 Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) 3:32
2 The Stranger 5:13
3 Just the Way You Are 4:53
4 Scenes From an Italian Restaurant 7:39
5 Vienna 3:36
6 Only the Good Die Young 3:57
7 She’s Always a Woman 3:23
8 Get It Right the First Time 3:57
9 Everybody Has a Dream 6:38

Personnel:

Billy Joel – vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers
Doug Stegmeyer – bass guitar
Liberty DeVitto – drums
Richie Cannata – tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute, organ, tuba
Steve Khan – six and twelve string electric guitars, acoustic rhythm guitar, high string guitar
Hiram Bullock – electric guitar
Patrick Williams – orchestration
Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "The Stranger," "Just the Way You Are," "Get It Right The First Time" and "Everybody Has A Dream"
Hugh McCracken – acoustic guitar on "Just the Way You Are," "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," "She's Always A Woman," "Get It Right The First Time" and "Everybody Has A Dream"
Steve Burgh – acoustic guitar on "Just the Way You Are" and "She's Always A Woman"; electric guitar on "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
Phil Woods – alto saxophone on "Just the Way You Are"
Dominic Cortese – accordion on "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" and "Vienna"
Richard Tee – organ on "Everybody Has A Dream"
Phoebe Snow – background vocals on "Everybody Has A Dream"
Lani Groves – background vocals on "Everybody Has A Dream"
Gwen Guthrie – background vocals on "Everybody Has A Dream"
Patti Austin – background vocals on "Everybody Has A Dream"
Ted Jensen - mastering




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