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The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on September 29, 1977, by Columbia Records. It was the first of Joel's albums to be produced by Phil Ramone , with whom he would work for five subsequent albums.
"The Stranger" is a song by rock artist Billy Joel and the title track from his 1977 album of the same name. [3] The song was released as a single in Japan where it became very popular and peaked at #2 on the Oricon chart, selling more than 471,000 copies, charting as well in Australia, New Zealand and France. [4]
His compilation album Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II is the 2nd best-selling album by a solo artist in RIAA history, achieving 23× Platinum certification in the US (behind Thriller by Michael Jackson). [3] The Stranger remains his best-selling studio album release, achieving 10× Platinum (Diamond status) in the US as well. [3]
Songwriter Robert Smith said the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in the 1942 novel L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". [5] The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the titular Arab is killed by the song's narrator; in Camus' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a ...
Stranger (Gen Hoshino album), 2013; Stranger (Valient Thorr album), 2010; Stranger (Yung Lean album), 2017; The Stranger, by Daniel Jordan released by Reel Life Productions, 2011; The Stranger, by E Sens, 2019; The Stranger, by Creeper, 2016
Strangers in the Night – originally issued with a sticker stating A Double Live Album – is a live album by British hard rock band UFO, first released in 1979 on the Chrysalis label. The original double LP was recorded at October 1978 shows in Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky.
The Stranger's Hand is an album by violinist Jerry Goodman, drummer Steve Smith, multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy, and bassist Oteil Burbridge. It was recorded in January 1999 at Neverland Studio in Marin County, California, and was released later that year by Tone Center Records [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Stranger in Town is the tenth studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his second with the Silver Bullet Band, released by Capitol Records in May 1978. As with its predecessor, the Silver Bullet Band backed Seger on about half of the songs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section backed Seger on the other half.