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[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.
Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert is the fifth live album as well as a CD and DVD music compilation of songs performed by American singer/songwriter Billy Joel during two concerts at Shea Stadium in New York City on July 16 and 18, 2008.
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 ...
In early February 2010, Elton John and Billy Joel set out on another leg of their concert series Face to Face. [1] Most of these shows had been rescheduled from the year before when John had contracted E. coli, forcing the pair to cancel the concerts planned for the fall of 2009. Joel had also fallen unwell at the time of the gigs the previous ...
Joel, who performs with Stevie Nicks on Friday at SoFi Stadium, on the inspiration for 'Piano Man,' farewell tours and his '70s hit he now calls 'dreary.' Billy Joel on his L.A. years: I felt like ...
Billy Joel gave an impromptu show in Long Island, New York. The 71-year-old entertainer, commonly known as the "Piano Man," was filmed playing a discarded piano that was left on a sidewalk. In the ...
52nd Street is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 11, 1978, by Columbia Records. [2] Presenting itself as the follow-up to his breakthrough studio album, The Stranger, Joel tried to give the new album a fresh sound, hiring various jazz musicians to differentiate it from his previous studio albums.
The Last Play at Shea is a 2010 American documentary film written by Mark Monroe, directed by Paul Crowder, produced by Steve Cohen and Nigel Sinclair, in conjunction with Billy Joel's Maritime Pictures and Spitfire Films. [1] The film is centered on Billy Joel's 2008 concerts of the same name that occurred at Shea Stadium.