Billy Joel
Piano Man (Legacy Edition)
Columbia/Legacy
By David Chiu

Piano Man, Billy Joel’s 1973 album, is best known for its two songs, the title track and “Captain Jack,” but it wasn’t a commercial seller compared to his subsequent hit releases. Continue reading “CD Review: Billy Joel”

Billy Joel
The Complete Albums Collection
Columbia/Legacy
By David Chiu

Exactly forty years ago, a young man from Long Island released his debut album. Cold Spring Harbor, which launched of the one of the most successful careers in pop music. Over the years, the songs of Billy Joel have become modern pop standards, covering a wide breadth of styles and genres but always maintaining a melodic sensibility that harkens the great composers from the classical through the and rock and roll periods. In celebration of his work in the last four decades comes this boxed set that contains all his 12 Columbia Records studio albums as well as the live Songs in the Attic, the classical work Fantasies and Delusions, and a collection of non-album songs. Each record is housed in vinyl replica packaging. It’s a well-deserved summation of an extraordinary body of work.

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Billy Joel
Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert
Columbia/Legacy
By David Chiu

How fitting that Billy Joel—a true native New Yorker—would be the last ever artist to perform at Shea Stadium before it was torn down for the new CitiField. Continue reading “CD Review: Billy Joel”

Billy Joel The Hits Columbia/Legacy By David Chiu At first, the idea of condensing an artist’s 40-year body of work … Continue reading CD Review: Billy Joel