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Oct 17, 2015 · Billy Joel released his 11th album 'Storm Front' on Oct. 17, 1989. ... "Mick Jones is a songwriter, so there we had a good relationship. ... from 1980's rock-oriented Glass Houses to 1982's ...
Mar 24, 2015 · Joel attempted to produce River Of Dreams himself, before the sessions were scrapped and the label inserted Kortchmar to start over. FWIW, I like Mick Jones' production on Storm Front and Van Halen's 5150, but a lot changed by 1993 and I don't think that sound would've gone over particularly well.
Apr 8, 2014 · “Lenningrad” is historical ballad which feels like it would have fit in well on the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. Influenced by Joel’s trip to the U.S.S.R. and has a great arrangement towards the end with the piano being almost classical to fit the mood.
Storm Front - Billy Joel. By 1989, it had been three years since Billy Joel had released The Bridge and his daughter Alexa was born (in late 1985). Although The Bridge sold reasonably well and Billy had played historic concerts in the Soviet Union resulting in the 1987 live album Kohuept, he was in a bit of a rut.
Storm Front is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 17, 1989. It was Joel's third album to reach No. 1 in the U.S. and features " We Didn't Start the Fire ", a fast-paced song that cataloged a list of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from 1949 (when Joel was born) until 1989, which ...
Greatest Hits Volume III is the second greatest hits album from American singer songwriter Billy Joel. The volume follows Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II (1985) and includes hits from 1983 to 1993. Two previously unreleased studio tracks are included, Bob Dylan 's "To Make You Feel My Love" and Goffin/King's "Hey Girl", while the third ...
Mick Jones, from Foreigner, was enlisted as producer alongside Joel. Jones and Joel give the album a guitar-heavy, AOR sheen that makes Storm Front more dated in retrospect than Joel’s prime work. Like Nylon Curtain , Storm Front is a serious, topical album that addresses issues like the Cold War in ‘Leningrad’ and the plight of local ...
