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Billy Joel and Viktor Razinov embrace afterward. In the song's last line, Joel sings: "We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad." The quote is printed on the single cover, but not on the cover of the 4-track CD, which instead features the titles of the extra songs: " Goodnight Saigon ", " Vienna ", and " Scandinavian Skies ".
All tracks are written by Billy Joel, except where noted. Joel's cover of The Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R." became the first single released by him that was written by someone other than himself. The B-side was "The Times They Are A-Changin'", Joel's live cover of Bob Dylan's song. Sides 1-4 are Tracks 1-16 on CD
[4] Billy Joel biographer Mark Bego claims that "If 52nd Street is Billy's tribute to jazz, then 'Zanzibar' is its centerpiece." [ 8 ] "Zanzibar" was the third most played album cut from 52nd Street on U.S. album-oriented rock radio during 1979 according to the year-end R&R Top 79 Albums of 1979 chart.
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 ...
Billy Joel was a Moonlighting fan and on his own initiative approached the show's producers and offered the song. [ 4 ] An extended version is also played during Joel's 1987 concert in Leningrad , and during the outro, Joel introduces the band; this can be heard on the live album KOHUEPT .
Joel later stated that he "must have been pretty fed up with some of [his] own mother's manipulation by the time [he] wrote the song, as evidenced by the F-word in the lyrics." [7] The music of "Laura" contains Beatle-esque elements.
The song is Joel's fictionalized version of the story of Billy the Kid. In an interview from 1975, Joel admitted, "Basically [the song] was an experiment with an impressionist type of lyric. In an interview from 1975, Joel admitted, "Basically [the song] was an experiment with an impressionist type of lyric.
Loksatta praising the emotional depth and musical structure of the song, highlight how the melody shifts from intense, expansive highs to introspective, calming lows, reflecting the bittersweet and contemplative nature of the lyrics and wrote "the song takes the listener on an emotional journey, from turbulence to peace, creating a deep connection with both the natural world and the speaker's ...