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Billy Joel: The Stranger

by Tom Useted

[25.Jul.08] :. Billy Joel's long-admired and often-purchased career peak has been given a 30th-anniversary deluxe treatment. Is it worth it? Mostly.

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Billy Joel ready for final concerts at Shea Stadium

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[15.Jul.08] :. Billy Joel doesn’t pause after hearing how tickets to his upcoming Shea Stadium shows - “The Last Play at Shea” - were being resold online for several thousand dollars apiece, with...

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Royal treatment bonded Billy Joel to ‘Allentown’

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[28.Nov.07] :. On Nov. 28, 1973, when Billy Joel arrived in the Lehigh Valley to perform here for the first time, he was a piano-playing singer-songwriter scuffling to establish himself. His first album,...

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Billy Joel revisits ‘Allentown’

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[28.Nov.07] :. Billy Joel sounds shocked—shocked!—when he is told that Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of the release of “Allentown” as a single. “There’s an actual anniversary...

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Pop ‘dinosaur’ Billy Joel is still in big demand

by Jim Harrington [The Oakland Tribune (MCT)]

[14.Nov.07] :. Billy Joel’s stats are impressive. He’s sold some 80 million records in the United States, which makes him the sixth bestselling artist in the country, right behind the Eagles and a...

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Billy Joel: 12 Gardens Live

by Lou Friedman

[31.Aug.06] :. I know, another Billy Joel compilation? Live, even? Yes, but standing on its own, 12 Gardens Live is actually a very good listen.

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Billy Joel

by Lou Friedman

[5.May.06] :. 's name hangs from the rafters of the world's most famous arena, not the man himself. Love him or hate him, the Piano Man ain't going anywhere.

 
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Billy Joel: My Lives

by Nikki Tranter

[23.Dec.05] :. This box set isn't simply a look back at Joel's career; it's a document of the artist as a creator and interpreter.

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Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain

by Jason Thompson

[23.Jul.02] :. Break all the records . . . burn the cassettes . . . It’s 1982. The United States (and the world at large) is adjusting to the next phase of the Cold War tensions in the first...

 

Billy Joel: 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert

by A. David Lewis

In his 1989 hit single, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Billy Joel attempted to catalogue a half-century of people and events in under four minutes of music. And, while the song was #1...