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Billy Joel- Glass Houses 45th Anniversary 3-10

It may not seem so risky from this vantage point forty-five years later, but singer/songwriter Billy Joel made a considerable gamble on the stripped-down guitar-bass-drums approach to many of the songs on his March 1980 album, Glass Houses. "There…

Billy Joel- Captain Jack- Long Island 7-81

People that have not been in Billy Joel's corner since the days of The Hassles and Cold Spring Harbor  and Piano Man,  the latter album released November 1973, truly cannot appreciate the depth of affection millions feel for this guy. But…

Billy Joel- Billy the Kid- UConn 12-76

“From a town known as Oyster Bay Long Island, Rode a boy with a six-pack in his hand...” As Billy Joel prepares to blow out the candles on seventy this week, it felt right to dust off something more akin to seventeen. There are moments…