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Billy Joel – Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
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“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” has the longest duration in all of Billy Joel’s catalog, clocking in at 7 minutes and 37 seconds. While never released as a single, it has
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Billy Joel – Just the Way You Are
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Billy Joel’s first US Top 10, “Just the Way You Are” comes off his brilliant album The Stranger. It was internationally successful, reaching the top 20 in six countries including a
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Billy Joel – Vienna
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In a July 2008 New York Times article, Joel cited this as one of his two favorite songs, along with “Summer, Highland Falls”.
Why did I pick Vienna to use as a metaphor for the
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Billy Joel – Big Shot
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Following in the judgmental blame-game tactics of “Captain Jack,” “Big Shot” features Billy Joel berating someone for having to always out-do everyone else.
There are a lot of
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Billy Joel – Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
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“Movin' Out (Anthony’s Song)” is the first track off Billy Joel’s hit 1977 album The Stranger. It is also the title of the Twyla Tharp Broadway dance musical) which featured many
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Billy Joel – My Life
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Straying away from the piano ballad but still infused with New York soul, “My Life” from 1978’s 52nd Street was also a relatively big hit, reaching #2 on the U.S. adult
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Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young
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A classic lusty pop-rock tune from the hit 1977 album, The Stranger, “Only the Good Die Young” was inspired by a high school crush of Billy Joel’s, Virginia Callahan. The narrator
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Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire
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This monster hit of a song was created in 1989, when Joel turned 40. The idea spawned from a conversation he had with a friend of Sean Lennon. The friend just turned 21 and was
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Billy Joel – Honesty
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The second song off of Billy Joel’s 1978 album 52 Street.
A gripping song dissecting the lack of shame in society. The song was a leading single prior to the album’s release. Both
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Billy Joel – To Make You Feel My Love
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The first of three cover songs on the third volume of Billy Joel’s greatest hits compilations, track fifteen on 1997’s Greatest Hits, Volume III was originally written by Bob Dylan
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Billy Joel – Piano Man
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In what has come to be one of his trademark songs, “Piano Man” draws upon Joel’s experience as a bar pianist at The Executive Room in LA to tell the story of a typical night at the
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Billy Joel – She's Always a Woman
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“She’s Always a Woman” is a song from Billy Joel’s 1977 album The Stranger. It is a love song about a modern woman, with whom he falls in love for her quirks as well as her flaws
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Billy Joel – It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me
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From the hit 1980 album Glass Houses, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 11 weeks in the top 10. Overseas, it reached #14 in the UK
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Billy Joel – Modern Woman
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You see her sitting with her coffee and her paper / With her high top sneakers of Italian design / With a long cool stare she aggravates the tension / Makes up her face while she
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Billy Joel – You May Be Right
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“You May Be Right” is a single written and performed by rock singer Billy Joel from his 1980 album Glass Houses.
Following the heavier side of Billy Joel’s pop heading into the
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Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
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“Uptown Girl” is a Billy Joel classic that can be found on 1983’s An Innocent Man. Inspired by Frankie Valli’s “Rag Doll,” its lyrics find a “downtown boy” (lower class) waxing
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Billy Joel – Summer, Highland Falls
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He reflects on a relationship that isn’t going as well as he had hoped, recognizing that he as well has his own faults.
On the live version from Live at Shea Stadium, Billy Joel
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Billy Joel – And So It Goes
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Written in 1983 but released in 1989 as a single for the hit album Storm Front, “And So It Goes” is a love ballad loosely based on Billy’s short-lived relationship with supermodel
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Billy Joel – An Innocent Man
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Noted as an homage to Ben E. King and The Drifters, “An Innocent Man” is title track from the 1983 hit album by Billy Joel. It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the third
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Billy Joel – The Longest Time
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“The Longest Time” is a doo-wop single by Billy Joel. The song was released as a single in 1984 as the fourth single from the 1983 album An Innocent Man. It reached number 14 on
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The Supervillains – Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
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“Movin' Out (Anthony’s Song)” is a cover of Billy Joel’s 1973 top 20 hit from his blockbuster album The Stranger.
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Billy Joel – The Stranger
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“The Stranger” is the title track from Billy Joel’s critical and commercial breakthrough album. Featuring a traditional rock outfit, the song begins with a slow, moody melody
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Billy Joel – The End of the World
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This is your life, you've got problems with your wife / She once made you mashed potatoes, now she gives you Minute Rice / And she used to do your laundry now she sends it out
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Billy Joel – Turn the Lights Back On
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[Verse 1] / Please open the door / Nothing is different, we've been here before / Pacing these halls, trying to talk / Over the silence / And pride sticks out its tongue / Laughs
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Billy Joel – No Man's Land
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[Verse 1] / I've seen those big machines come rolling through the quiet pines / Blue suits and bankers with their Volvos and their valentines / Give us this day our daily discount
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Billy Joel – New York State of Mind
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One of Billy Joel’s signature songs, “New York State of Mind” comes from the 1976 album Turnstiles and is something of a love song for the city. The artist was literally traveling
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Billy Joel – I Go to Extremes
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The second single from the 1989 hit album Storm Front, “I Go to Extremes” peaked at the number six position on the Billboard Hot 100, and at #70 on the UK chart. The song was also
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Billy Joel – You're Only Human (Second Wind)
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“You’re Only Human (Second Wind)” is a song written in 1985 and performed by Billy Joel. The subject of the song is teenage depression and suicide. The song originally appeared on
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