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The Stranger - CD, SACD, LP

Name: CD/SACD Billy Joel: The Stranger DLX | LTD
SKU: 900902
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Rating: 4.72 (39 reviews)

Billy Joel

Rock | Pop | Vocal | Pop Rock | Soft Rock

1977

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CD Billy Joel: The Stranger

Remastered Enhanced Europe CD

Columbia 5. December 2005 Europe

Album Remastered Enhanced

With the 1977 album "The Stranger", Billy Joel had his long-awaited breakthrough. The album was produced by Phil Ramone, who had worked with Simon & Garfunkel among others, and helped Joel turn his already accomplished arrangements and heartfelt lyrics into real hits. None of his previous ballads hit the heart like "Just The Way You Are", which ...

More ID: 34751 EAN: 5099749118423 Discogs ID: 487734

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Title	The Stranger
Artist	Billy Joel
More info	Remastered Enhanced Europe CD
Format	CD
Labels	Columbia
Country of issue	Europe
Date of publication	5. December 2005
First released	1977
Weight	85 g
EAN	5099749118423
Product ID	34751
Discogs ID	487734
Discogs reviews	4.28

Billy Joel: The Stranger version on CD in Remastered edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company Columbia on 5. December 2005.

With the 1977 album "The Stranger", Billy Joel had his long-awaited breakthrough. The album was produced by Phil Ramone, who had worked with Simon & Garfunkel among others, and helped Joel turn his already accomplished arrangements and heartfelt lyrics into real hits. None of his previous ballads hit the heart like "Just The Way You Are", which won him a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1979. The album, which ranked 67th on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, also won a Grammy. Joel's voice is full of bittersweet wistfulness, exuberant energy and a dedication to the working class that could have come from Bruce Springsteen. With great dynamism, he renders rich details in vivid colors and makes wistful feelings ring out. Slightly less subtle, on the other hand, were the lyrics to "Only The Good Die Young", in which a boy tries to seduce his Catholic girlfriend. Although the girlfriend eventually claims her innocence, the song has been banned as "anti-Catholic" on many American radio stations. However, this ban garnered even more attention, as Joel reported in 2008.

Album spans genres Rock, Pop, Vocal, Pop Rock and Soft Rock.

Track list

1	Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)	3:30 min
2	The Stranger	5:11 min
	Percussion Ralph MacDonald
3	Just The Way You Are	4:51 min
	Acoustic Guitar Hugh McCracken, Steve Burgh \| Alto Saxophone Phil Woods \| Percussion Ralph MacDonald
4	Scenes From An Italian Restaurant	7:37 min
	Accordion Dominic Cortese \| Acoustic Guitar Hugh McCracken \| Electric Guitar Steve Burgh
5	Vienna	3:34 min
	Accordion Dominic Cortese
6	Only The Good Die Young	3:56 min
7	She's Always A Woman	3:21 min
	Acoustic Guitar Hugh McCracken, Steve Burgh
8	Get It Right The First TIme	3:57 min
	Acoustic Guitar Hugh McCracken \| Percussion Ralph MacDonald
9	Everybody Has A Dream	6:37 min
	Acoustic Guitar Hugh McCracken \| Backing Vocals Gwen Guthrie, Lani Groves, Patti Austin, Phoebe Snow \| Organ Richard Tee \| Percussion Ralph MacDonald
Video 1	The Stranger
Video 2	Only The Good Die Young
Video 3	Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Video 4	Just The Way You Are