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"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 ]
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.
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 ...
"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger. It has been described as "a characteristic Joel observation on New York life." [2] In 2021, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the 324th [3] greatest song of all time. The song was also described as "a seven-minute epic" [4] by American Songwriter.
"She's Always a Woman" is a song by Billy Joel from his 1977 album, The Stranger. The single peaked at No. 17 in the U.S. in Oct. 1978, [2] and at No. 53 in the UK in 1986, when it was released as a double A-side with "Just the Way You Are".
"Strangers" is a song written by Dave Davies and performed by British rock group the Kinks.It was released in November 1970 on the Kinks' LP record album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, which is best known for producing the hit single "Lola".
"Vienna" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger, released as the B-side to his "Just the Way You Are" single. [2]Despite its initial release as a B-side, the song's popularity has grown considerably in the decades after its release.
"People Are Strange" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It appears on the band's second studio album, Strange Days, released in September 1967.The song was written by the Doors' vocalist Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger, although all of the band are credited on the sleeve notes.