Just after ready for the longest time….Oh, ohhh, oh. For the longest time… Billy Joel has lastly launched new audio.
“Did I hold out much too prolonged?” the 74-12 months-old asks in his new one, “Convert the Lights Back On,” which was released Thursday.
It marked Joel’s very first single in 17 yrs. His final good pop album was 1993’s “River Of Dreams,” virtually 31 years back.
The new track is a “classic Billy Joel-design and style tune, embodying the hallmarks of his signature sound and ushering in the next chapter of his tale,” according a January push release from Columbia Information.
Joel, the fourth ideal-marketing solo artist of all time in the United States, 1st hinted at the probability of new material through a live performance at Madison Square Back garden on Dec. 19.
“I have superior news and lousy news,” Joel explained to the crowd during the present. “I’ll give you the negative information first. We do not have anything new to engage in for you. The excellent information is you don’t have to sit by means of a thing you have no idea what it is. Even though, we obtained a little anything we’re performing on you could hear sometime.”
The tune — which Joel wrote with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector — is readily available on all streaming platforms and on a minimal-version vinyl. A lyric video was produced on Joel’s formal YouTube channel. Joel has not nonetheless introduced if additional material, or even a complete pop album, are to stick to.
YouTube and streaming did not exist when Joel’s final studio album, the classical piano selection “Fantasies & Delusions,” was launched in 2001.
The 6-time Grammy winner did not launch one more single until finally the 2007 ballad “All My Everyday living,” which he wrote for his then-wife Katie Lee. Later that 12 months, Joel’s tune “Xmas in Fallujah” was produced with Cass Dillon on direct vocals.
Joel has toured extensively inspite of the absence of new materials, providing out venues and filling set lists with his a lot of crowd-satisfying hits like “Piano Person” and “We Didn’t Get started the Hearth.”
Joel announced very last summer season that he would end his historic regular residency at Madison Square Backyard, for the duration of which he has performed 1 clearly show for every month at the New York Town venue considering the fact that January 2014. Joel will perform his last MSG residency show on July 25, which will be his 150th vocation exhibit at the venue, the most of any musical artist.
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