Billy Joel: Collection (1971-2011) [13CD + 3DVD] Re-up

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man", he has been making music since the 1960s, releasing popular albums throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

He was born in 1949 in The Bronx, New York, and grew up on Long Island, New York, both places that influenced his music. After dropping out of high school, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila, before signing a record deal with Family Productions and kicking off a solo career in 1971 with his first release, Cold Spring Harbor. In 1972, Joel caught the attention of Columbia Records after a live radio performance of the song "Captain Jack" became popular in Philadelphia, prompting him to sign a new record deal with the company and release his second solo album, Piano Man; this album contained his first hit single of the same name, which is often considered to be his signature song. After releasing two more albums, Streetlife Serenade and Turnstiles, Joel released his critical and commercial breakthrough album, The Stranger, in 1977; this album became Columbia's best-selling release, selling over 10 million copies and spawning several hit singles, including "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "Just the Way You Are", "Only the Good Die Young", and "She's Always a Woman".

In 1978, Joel's album 52nd Street was his first album to peak at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Joel released his seventh studio album, Glass Houses, in an attempt to further establish himself as a rock and roll artist; this release featured "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me", Joel's first single to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as "Don't Ask Me Why" and "Sometimes a Fantasy". His next album, The Nylon Curtain, was released in 1982, and stemmed from a desire from Joel to create more lyrically and melodically ambitious music. An Innocent Man, released in 1983, served as an homage to genres of music which Joel had grown up with in the 1950s, such as rhythm and blues and doo-wop; this release featured "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time", two of his most popular songs. After releasing the albums The Bridge and Storm Front in 1986 and 1989 respectively, Joel released his twelfth and final solo album, River of Dreams, in 1993. He went on to release Fantasies and Delusions, a 2001 album featuring classical compositions composed by Joel and performed by British-Korean pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo. Joel also provided voiceover work in 1988 for the 27th animated Disney film, Oliver & Company, in which he provided the voice of the character Dodger, and contributed to the soundtracks to several different films, including Easy Money, Ruthless People, and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Across the 20 years of his solo career, Joel produced 33 Top 40 hits in the US, all of which he wrote himself, and three of which ("It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", "Tell Her About It", and "We Didn't Start the Fire") managed to top the charts. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling artists of all time as well as the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the US.

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. Since the advent of his solo career, Joel has held a successful touring career, holding live performances across the globe in which he sings several of his written songs. In 1987, he became one of the very first artists to hold a rock and roll tour in the Soviet Union following the country's alleviation of the ban on rock and roll music. Despite largely retiring from writing and releasing pop music following the release of River of Dreams, he continues to tour. He frequently performs at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Joel has been in several relationships, including marriages to Elizabeth Weber Small, model Christie Brinkley, and Katie Lee. Since 2015, he has been married to Alexis Roderick, his 4th spouse…

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Tracklist CD1 - 1971. Cold Spring Harbor (CBS-Sony 32DP 650, Japan):

01. She's got a way [0:02:52.35]
02. You can make me free [0:02:58.10]
03. Everybody loves you now [0:02:49.55]
04. Why Judy why [0:02:57.02]
05. Falling of the rain [0:02:39.25]
06. Turn around [0:03:07.25]
07. You look so good to me [0:02:27.63]
08. Tomorrow is today [0:04:42.05]
09. Nocturne [0:02:49.05]
10. Got to begin again [0:02:50.45]




Tracklist CD2 - 1973. Piano Man (Columbia CK 32544, USA):

01. Travelin' Prayer [0:04:16.35]
02. Piano Man [0:05:39.12]
03. Ain't No Crime [0:03:19.08]
04. You're My Home [0:03:14.00]
05. The Ballad of Billy the Kid [0:05:45.10]
06. Worse Comes to Worst [0:03:15.52]
07. Stop in Nevada [0:03:55.50]
08. If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) [0:03:34.53]
09. Somewhere Along the Line [0:03:20.72]
10. Captain Jack [0:07:18.03]




Tracklist CD3 - 1974. Streetlife Serenade (Columbia CK 33146, USA):

01. Streetlife Serenade [0:05:19.37]
02. Los Angelenos [0:03:42.18]
03. The Great Suburban Showdown [0:03:46.17]
04. Root Beer Rag [0:03:03.18]
05. Roberta [0:04:33.60]
06. The Entertainer [0:03:40.67]
07. Last of the Big Time Spenders [0:04:35.45]
08. Weekend Song [0:03:31.38]
09. Souvenir [0:02:00.30]
10. The Mexican Connection [0:03:36.67]




Tracklist CD4 - 1976. Turnstiles (Columbia CK 33848, USA):

01. Say Goodbye To Hollywood [0:04:37.15]
02. Summer, Highland Falls [0:03:15.50]
03. All You Wanna Do Is Dance [0:03:40.12]
04. New York State Of Mind [0:05:59.48]
05. James [0:03:54.35]
06. Prelude / Angry Young Man [0:05:15.05]
07. I've Loved These Days [0:04:31.47]
08. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) [0:05:14.08]




Tracklist CD5 - 1977. The Stranger (CBS-Sony 32DP 654, Japan):

01. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) [0:03:30.45]
02. The Stranger [0:05:10.50]
03. Just The Way You Are [0:04:50.67]
04. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant [0:07:37.23]
05. Vienna [0:03:34.40]
06. Only The Good Die Young [0:03:55.50]
07. She's Always A Woman [0:03:21.50]
08. Get It Right The First Time [0:03:56.65]
09. Everybody Has A Dream [0:06:36.22]




Tracklist CD6 - 1978. 52nd Street (CBS CK 35609, USA):

01. Big Shot [0:04:03.37]
02. Honesty [0:03:53.38]
03. My Life [0:04:44.00]
04. Zanzibar [0:05:12.62]
05. Stiletto [0:04:41.73]
06. Rosalinda's Eyes [0:04:41.60]
07. Half A Mile Away [0:04:08.55]
08. Until The Night [0:06:36.12]
09. 52nd Street [0:02:26.38]




Tracklist CD7 - 1980. Glass Houses (CBS 450087 2, Austria):

01. You May Be Right [0:04:16.37]
02. Sometimes a Fantasy [0:03:40.10]
03. Don't Ask Me Why [0:02:59.10]
04. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me [0:02:57.25]
05. All for Leyna [0:04:16.00]
06. I Don't Want to Be Alone [0:03:57.55]
07. Sleeping with the Television On [0:03:02.40]
08. C'était Toi (You Were the One) [0:03:25.38]
09. Close to the Borderline [0:03:47.45]
10. Through the Long Night [0:02:45.17]




Tracklist CD8 - 1982. The Nylon Curtain (CBS-Sony 32DP 658, Japan):

01. Allentown [0:03:52.62]
02. Laura [0:05:06.00]
03. Pressure [0:04:42.38]
04. Goodnight Saigon [0:07:05.50]
05. She's Right on Time [0:04:15.00]
06. A Room of Our Own [0:04:05.50]
07. Surprises [0:03:28.25]
08. Scandinavian Skies [0:06:00.00]
09. Where's the Orchestra? [0:03:19.47]




Tracklist CD9 - 1983. An Innocent Man (CBS-Sony 35DP 77, Japan):

01. Easy Money [0:04:05.52]
02. An Innocent Man [0:05:18.30]
03. The Longest Time [0:03:37.58]
04. This Night [0:04:18.05]
05. Tell Her About It [0:03:51.05]
06. Uptown Girl [0:03:17.22]
07. Careless Talk [0:03:47.15]
08. Christie Lee [0:03:30.08]
09. Leave A Tender Moment Alone [0:03:56.30]
10. Keeping The Faith [0:04:42.00]




Tracklist CD10 - 1986. The Bridge (CBS CDCBS 86323, Japan-Holland):

01. Running On Ice [0:03:19.12]
02. This Is The Time [0:05:01.63]
03. A Matter Of Trust [0:04:12.00]
04. Modern Woman [0:03:51.00]
05. Baby Grand (duet with Ray Charles) [0:04:06.42]
06. Big Man On Mulberry Street [0:05:30.15]
07. Temptation [0:04:15.68]
08. Code of Silence (duet with Cyndi Lauper) [0:05:16.25]
09. Getting Closer [0:05:00.67]




Tracklist CD11 - 1989. Storm Front (CBS 465658 2, Austria):

01. That's Not Her Style [0:05:10.10]
02. We Didn't Start the Fire [0:04:50.57]
03. The Downeaster "Alexa" [0:03:44.65]
04. I Go To Extremes [0:04:23.40]
05. Shameless [0:04:26.20]
06. Storm Front [0:05:17.20]
07. Leningrad [0:04:06.45]
08. State of Grace [0:04:30.25]
09. When in Rome [0:04:50.10]
10. And So It Goes [0:03:38.20]




Tracklist CD12 - 1993. River Of Dreams (Columbia CK 53003, USA):

01. No Man's Land [0:04:48.35]
02. The Great Wall Of China [0:05:47.05]
03. Blonde Over Blue [0:04:55.32]
04. A Minor Variation [0:05:36.35]
05. Shades Of Grey [0:04:11.35]
06. All About Soul [0:06:01.23]
07. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) [0:03:34.32]
08. The River Of Dreams [0:04:07.45]
09. Two Thousand Years [0:05:20.63]
10. Famous Last Words [0:04:54.20]




Tracklist CD13 - 2001. Fantasies & Delusions (Columbia CK 85397, USA):

01. Reverie (Villa D'Este) [0:09:31.52]
02. Waltz # 1 (Nunley's Carousel) [0:06:58.38]
03. Aria (Grand Canal) [0:11:08.65]
04. Invention In C Minor [0:01:04.30]
05. Soliloquy (On A Separation) [0:11:26.30]
06. Suite For Piano (Star-Crossed)/Innamorato [0:07:46.60]
07. Sorbetto [0:01:30.67]
08. Delusion [0:03:37.23]
09. Waltz # 2 (Steinway Hall) [0:07:00.57]
10. Waltz # 3 (For Lola) [0:03:28.43]
11. Fantasy (Film Noir) [0:08:56.47]
12. Air (Dublinesque) [0:03:46.65]




Tracklist DVD1 - 1983. Live From Long Island:

1. Allentown
2. My Life
3. Prelude/Angry Young Man
4. Piano Man
5. The Stranger
6. Scandinavian Scies
7. Movin' Out
8. Pressure
9. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
10.Just The Way You Are
11.It's Still Rock and Roll TO Me
12.Sometimes A Fantasy
13.Big Shot
14.You May Be Right
15.Only The Good Die Young
16.Souvenir



Tracklist DVD2 - 2001. The Essential Video Collection:

1. Piano Man
2. All for Leyna
3. Tell Her About It
4. Honesty
5. Sometimes a Fantasy
6. The Night Is Still Young
7. Pressure
8. My Life
9. Keeping the Faith
10. A Matter of Trust
11. You're Only Human (Second Wind)
12. Everybody Loves You Now
13. Uptown Girl
14. You May Be Right
15. Big Shot
16. The Longest Time
17. Allentown
18. Los Angelenos
19. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
20. Baby Grand

Bonus videos:

21. She's Right on Time
22. Goodnight Saigon (Live)
23. Leave a Tender Moment Alone (Live)
24. James



Tracklist DVD3 - 2011. Live at Shea Stadium:

1. Prelude/Angry Young Man
2. My Life
3. Summer, Highland Falls
4. Everybody Loves You Now
5. Zanzibar
6. New York State Of Mind (with Tony Bennett)
7. Allentown
8. The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
9. She's Always A Woman
10. Goodnight Saigon
11. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)
12. Shameless (with Garth Brooks)
13. This Is The Time (with John Mayer)
14. Keeping The Faith
15. Captain Jack
16. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
17. The River Of Dreams/A Hard Day's Night
18. We Didn't Start The Fire
19. You May Be Right
20. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
21. Only The Good Die Young
22. I Saw Her Standing There (with Paul McCartney)
23. Take Me Out To The Ballgame
24. Piano Man
25. Let It Be (with Paul McCartney)

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Walk This Way (with Steven Tyler)
My Generation (with Roger Daltrey)
Pink Houses (with John Mellencamp)








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