Billy Joel – The Stranger - (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded at A&R Recording in New York with producer Phil Ramone, *The Stranger* marked the beginning of one of the most fruitful artist-producer partnerships of the late '70s. The album introduced Joel's gift for character sketches and blue-collar storytelling to a mass audience, with "Piano Man" already in the rearview and something sharper taking its place. Tracks like "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" showed a songwriter willing to build miniature novels where a pop single would do.
BILLY JOEL - THE STRANGER The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel, released on September 29, 1977 by Columbia Records. While his previous four albums had been moderately successful, The Stranger became Joel's true critical and commercial breakthrough, spending six weeks at number 2 on the US Billboard 200. Considered his magnum opus, it remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date, and was ranked at number 70 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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UPC: 886973185810
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 6.24.08
Format: LP Vinyl