Billy Joel has not produced a new single for the longest time….Oh, ohhh, oh. For the longest time.
But that will soon alter with the Piano Person asserting Monday that his new tune titled “Turn the Lights Back again On” will debut on Feb. 1.
For Joel – a 6-time Grammy winner whose final pop album was “River of Desires” in 1993 – it will be his initially new one due to the fact 2007.
The tune, in accordance to Monday’s press release from Columbia Documents, is a “classic Billy Joel-style tune, embodying the hallmarks of his signature sound and ushering in the up coming chapter of his story. In the lyrics, he asks, ‘Did I wait way too long… to turn the lights back again on?’”
Joel, the fourth-best-offering solo artist in the United States, initially hinted at the potentially of new product during his concert on Dec. 19 at Madison Square Yard.
“I have great information and undesirable information,” Joel instructed the crowd all through the demonstrate. “I’ll give you the negative information to start with. We never have nearly anything new to perform for you. The great information is you never have to sit by way of something you have no plan what it is. While, we bought a minimal anything we’re working on you could listen to sometime.”
Speculation continued Sunday soon after the go over picture on Joel’s Fb web page was improved to a photograph with the phrases, “Did I wait also prolonged…”
The announcement of the new solitary was then created Monday, with a tease of Joel enjoying the piano.
The song – which Joel wrote with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector – will be available on all streaming platforms and on a minimal-version vinyl. A lyric video will also be produced on Joel’s formal YouTube channel. Joel has not nonetheless declared if far more product, or even a entire pop album, are to stick to.
YouTube and streaming did not exist when Joel’s very last studio album – the classical piano collection “Fantasies & Delusions” – was launched in 2001.
Joel did not launch a solitary with lyrics until the 2007 ballad “All My Lifetime,” which he wrote for his then-wife Katie Lee. Afterwards that year, Joel’s track “Xmas in Fallujah” was launched with Cass Dillon on lead vocals. A live variation of the tune, with Joel on vocals, was produced in 2008.
Joel has toured extensively regardless of the absence of new materials, marketing out venues and filling set lists with his lots of crowd-pleasing hits like “Piano Guy” and “We Did not Get started the Hearth.”
Joel, who is established to participate in at the Tokyo Dome in Japan later this week, announced in June that he would conclusion his historic monthly residency at Madison Square Back garden, during which he has performed one show per thirty day period at the New York location considering the fact that January 2014. Joel will enjoy his last MSG residency demonstrate on July 25, which will be his 150th job exhibit at the location, the most of any musical artist.
The Piano Man has found the lights go out on Broadway, but he has turned the lights back on in the studio.
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