As a Mets and Billy Joel fan, I have tears in my eyes as we say goodbye to Shea Stadium. But a what a way to go out with Billy Joel and Paul McCartney performing together with some classics from The Beatles!!! Shea might not be standing there much longer, but the memories will live on forever!!!
Enter to a win a Legacy Recordings celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Billy Joel’s The Stranger with a re-release prize pack!!! The prize pack includes original album, a previously unreleased 1977 Carnegie Hall performance, as well as a card to download the entire album digitally. All you have to do is E-Mail me the answer at [email protected] to “Which song off of The Stranger became the title of a Broadway musical based on Billy Joel’s music?” by July 15th with your name and address! A winner will be selected at random.
Legacy Recordings proudly celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Billy Joel’s breakout album “The Stranger” with the release of two special editions — a 2 CD Legacy Edition and a Deluxe Limited Edition including 2 CDs plus a bonus DVD — of the best-selling multi-platinum collection which catapulted Joel into the upper ranks of pop music superstardom. Each of the 30th Anniversary editions of “The Stranger” is available online and in stores today.
Originally released in September 1977, Billy Joel’s fifth studio album, “The Stranger,” marked the first of Joel’s highly successful collaborations with producer Phil Ramone, whose mastery of the recording studio provided a sublime sonic context for Joel’s timeless songs and classic performances. “I was very happy that we chose Phil Ramone,” said Billy Joel in a recent interview for the 30th Anniversary edition of “The Stranger.” “He got it right away.”
The resulting collection became one of the top-selling albums of the year (peaking at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart); won two Grammys (Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Just The Way You Are,” “The Stranger” was nominated for Album of the Year); overtook Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as Columbia Records Top Selling Album of the time, and generated four indelible singles — “Just The Way You Are (#1 Adult Contemporary, #3 Pop Singles); “Only The Good Die Young” (#24 Pop Singles); “She’s Always A Woman” (#2 Adult Contemporary, #17 Pop Singles); and “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (#17 Pop Singles) — that remain radio staples to this day.
Billy Joel’s 5th studio release, The Stranger, is celebrating its 30th year and Legacy Recordings is giving the CD some much deserved special treatment on July 8th!
The limited deluxe edition of “The Stranger” includes a CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone; a CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy and his band, “Live At Carnegie Hall 1977,” recorded at the historic Manhattan venue on June 3, 1977, one month prior to the sessions for “The Stranger” album and newly restored for the new editions of “The Stranger”; and a DVD showcasing two live promotional videos from “The Stranger” and the long-awaited release of Billy’s fabled appearance on the BBC’s “Old Grey Whistle Test,” a seldom-seen sixty minute cavalcade from 1978 that has aired only once on the UK’s BBC2.
Rounding out the limited deluxe edition of “The Stranger – 30th Anniversary” package is a 48 page booklet with liner notes from Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke and a multitude of photos, including never-before-seen images from the original photo shoot for the album.
That is a must for Billy Joel fans, I know I can’t wait.
Now I know Billy Joel is more of an East Coast thing, but here is the track listing for The Stranger. You have to admit he had some really memorable and enjoyable tracks on that CD and even you will be saying you love him just the way he is!
1. Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
2. The Stranger
3. Just The Way You Are
4. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
5. Vienna
6. Only The Good Die Young
7. She’s Always A Woman
8. Get It Right The First Time
9. Everybody Has A Dream
C’mon admit it you have bust out singing at least one of those songs! I know I have screamed out a bottle of red, a bottle of white…in fact I am doing it right now and I know you are too!!! Or you are Movin’ Out from this post!!!
