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The album emerged from legal difficulties with Joel's former label, Family Productions, and ultimately became his first breakthrough album. The title track, a fictionalized retelling of Joel's experiences with people he met as a lounge singer in Los Angeles, peaked at No. 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary ...
Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel is a greatest hits album by Billy Joel, originally released on 15 November 2004. The album was re-released on 10 July 2006 with a DVD included. The CD contains 18 of his biggest hits, and the DVD contains 10 videos (some of which are live).
Joel wrote "Captain Jack" in late 1971, [2] [3] while sitting in his apartment in Oyster Bay, Long Island, looking out the window, trying to find inspiration for a song.. Across the street was a housing project, and he observed suburban teenagers going into the project and obtaining heroin from a dealer known as "Captain Jack
Joel’s previous single, “All My Life,” arrived in 2007, and his last full-length studio album of new material, the classical music collection “Fantasies & Delusions,” was released in 2001.
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Piano Man (Billy Joel album), a 1973 rock album by Billy Joel "Piano Man" (song), a 1973 song from the album; Piano Man (Hilton Ruiz album), 1975; Piano Man a 2014 EP by Mamamoo, or the title song "Piano Man", a song from the 2008 album Human by Brandy Norwood "Piano Man", a song by Billy Eckstine on the 1959 album Basie and Eckstine, Inc.
The album also includes a piano version and instrumental of "Piano Man". [3] The music video for "Piano Man" was directed by BoA's brother Kwon Soon-wook of video production company Metaoloz. [14] [15] It has a retro style reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s, and is mostly in black-and-white, with color used for emphasis. [16]
Bob Dylan's album Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, soundtrack of the 1973 film by Sam Peckinpah. [40] "The Ballad of Billy the Kid", song sung by Billy Joel on the 1973 Piano Man album. Charlie Daniels recorded the song "Billy the Kid" on his 1976 album High Lonesome. [53] Chris LeDoux also covered the song on his album Haywire. [54]