Billy Joel

Pop Rock 

Billy Joel Hits 75

May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 75th birthday, Attila, Billy Joel, Piano Man, The Echoes, The Hassles, TikTok, Zanzibar

Celebrating the life and career of a working class pop hero

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Rock 

Family First: Danny Kortchmar on The Immediate Family’s Brotherly Bonds

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Billy Joel, Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, David Crosby, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Lee Sklar, Leland Sklar, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Quarto Valley Records, Russ Kunkel, Skin in the Game, Steve Postell, Stevie Nicks, The Immediate Family, Waddy Wachtel

“We’ve earned the right not to have to be judged by anyone”

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Pop Rock 

Billy Joel Announces First New Pop Song in 17 Years

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 Ron Hart 1 Comment 2024, Ariana Grande, Billy Joel, Blackpink, Celine Dion, Columbia Records, Freddy Wexler, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Madison Square Garden, P!nk, Selena Gomez, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Turn The Lights Back On

“Turn The Lights Back On” comes out February 1st

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Pop Rock 

Ain’t No Crime: Billy Joel’s Piano Man at 50

November 9, 2023 Steve Holtje 1 Comment 1973, 50th anniversary, Attila, Billy Joel, Captain Jack, Clive Davis, Columbia Records, Herb Gordon, Piano Man, The Ballad of Billy the Kid, The Commandos, The Hassles, You're My Home

Celebrating the album that gave the Long Island great his nickname

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Pop 

Money Changes Everything: Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual at 40

October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 Craig Peters 1 Comment "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, 1983, 40th Anniversary, An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Blue Angel, Captain Lou Albano, Cyndi Lauper, David Wolff, Frontiers, Huey Lewis, Hulk Hogan, Journey, Jules Shear, Keep it Up, Loverboy, Portrait Records, Prince, Robert Hazard, She's So Unusual, sports, The Brains, The Fabulous Moolah, The Hooters, Wendi Richter

Looking back on the album that made her a sensation

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Pop Records Rock 

Billy Joel – The Vinyl Collection Vol. 2 Due Out November 3rd

September 15, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Box Set, Columbia Records, Fantasies & Delusions, Glass Houses, Legacy Recordings, Live from Long Island, River of Dreams, Storm Front, The Bridge, The Nylon Curtain, The Vinyl Collection Vol. 2, Vinyl

11-LP box set includes first-ever audio release of Live from Long Island

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Electronic 

ANNA’s Purest Intentions

August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Ana Miranda, ANNA, Billy Joel, Intentions, Mercury KX, Taylor Swift, Tom Seaver

On her brilliant new album, the Lisbon-based electronic musician silences the Intercranial Overdrive

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Pop Rock 

Famous Last Words: Billy Joel’s River of Dreams at 30

August 10, 2023August 11, 2023 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Billy Joel, Columbia Records, Danny Kortchmar, Elton John, Foreigner, Mick Jones, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, River of Dreams

Looking back on the Piano Man’s final pop album

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Rock 

Easy Money: Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man at 40

August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Tell Her About It, The Longest Time, Uptown Girl

Looking back on a most underrated album from the Long Island Piano Man

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Funk New Wave Pop Prince Rock Soul 

A Pocket Full of Horses: Prince’s 1999 at 40

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1982, 1999, 40th Anniversary, Adam Ant, Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, Joe Jackson, Little Red Corvette, Men At Work, Phil Collins, Prince, Stray Cats, The Go-Gos, Warner Bros.

Looking back at the Purple One’s breakthrough double LP

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Pop Rock 

Billy Joel Returns To Texas

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Stephanie Hernandez 0 Comments 2022, A Matter of Trust, Allentown, Billy Joel, Concert, Hicksville, Houston, It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me, Just The Way You Are, Long Island, Minute Maid Park, My Life, Piano Man, Pressure, Texas, The Entertainer, You May Be Right

The Piano Man makes his debut at Houston’s Minute Maid Park

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Pop Rock 

Where’s the Orchestra: Billy Joel’s The Nylon Curtain at 40

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Allentown, An Innocent Man, Billy Joel, Columbia Records, Goodnight Saigon, Laura, Pressure, The Nylon Curtain, The Stranger, Turnstiles, Where’s the Orchestra

Inside a Piano Man’s most political album

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Country and/or Western North Americana Rock 

ALBUMS: Wesley Dean’s Australian Americana

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2022, Australia, Billy Joel, Hall of Flames LLC, Tom Petty, Unknown, Wesley Dean

The Australian Idol winner aims to break out beyond Down Under on Unknown

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Pop Rock 

Gavin DeGraw: The Water Is Wide

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 Leena Tailor 0 Comments 2022, Billy Joel, Face The River, Gavin DeGraw, Paul McCartney

South Fallsburg, NY’s favorite son on his grief-fuelled new album Face The River, the hit inspired by Paul McCartney and his ‘One Tree Hill’ breakout “I Don’t Want to Be”

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Music Journalism Remembrance 

All You Need to Know About Van Halen by Someone Who Was an Actual Teenager in the 1970s

October 9, 2020October 19, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Billy Joel, Blondie, Bread, CHEAP TRICK, CSN, James Taylor, Kansas, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Little River Band, Neu!, Styx, The Ramones, Van Halen, Wilko Johnson, Wire

A remembrance of the era that gave us Eddie Van Halen from someone on the ground during their ascension to superstardom

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