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By Thomas MacFarlane

Over the process his occupation, Billy Joel has published a chain of outstanding albums that jointly chart his trip as an artist from relative obscurity to foreign luck. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and author Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical trip, from Joel’s apprenticeship within the new york tune scene to his stories in either manhattan and l. a. writing and recording his personal precise model of piano rock and pa.

After attaining a undeniable measure of musical luck within the overdue Sixties, Joel launched into a occupation as a singer-songwriter within the early Nineteen Seventies. even though his preliminary albums validated a precocious mastery that helped identify him within the box, his complete strength as a recording artist blossomed on The Stranger (1977), created below the advice of mythical manufacturer Phil Ramone. next releases explored numerous musical types and helped solidify Joel’s recognition as essentially the most very important pop composers of his era.

Experiencing Billy Joel explores every one of Joel’s albums, laying out their attract musicians and non-musicians alike whereas additionally exploring many of the creation kinds that experience characterised Joel’s improvement within the studio. alongside the best way, MacFarlane finds how Billy Joel’s recorded works as an entire function the basis for a fancy and enduring musical legacy.

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