Billy Joel is returning with his initial new song in 17 years!
Though Joel, 74, intends to finish his long-running regular monthly residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the drape isn’t decreasing on his job right now. On Monday, January 22, Joel revealed that he will certainly quickly finish his virtually two-decade break from launching new songs with “Turn The Lights Back On.” Due on February 1, the song is a “classic Billy Joel-style tune, embodying the hallmarks of his signature sound and ushering in the next chapter of his story,” according to a news release.
The song’s title belongs to the verses, in which Joel asks, “Did I wait too long…to turn the lights back on?”
Joel’s most recent initiative was created by the Grammy-chosen songwriter and manufacturer Freddy Wexler, that’s created for Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber (“Stuck with U”), Selena Gomez (“Slow Down”), Pink (“My Attic”), Demi Lovato (“Without The Love”) and much more. Wexler and Joel cowrote “Turn The Lights Back On” with Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector. The song will certainly get here with a verse video clip shared using Joel’s authorities YouTube network, and a limited-edition 7” plastic document of the track is additionally available for sale.
Joel formerly hinted that something new got on its method December 2023, sharing a fragment using TikTok of phase small talk from among his performances. “I have good news and bad news,” he stated while seated at the piano. “I’ll give you the bad news first. We don’t have anything new to play for you. The good news is you don’t have to sit through something you have no idea what it is. Although, we got a little something we’re working on you might hear sometime.”
Though Joel has actually stayed energetic on the phase, he’s been a ghost in the tape-recording workshop. In 2001, he launched Fantasies & Delusions, which was apparently his last cd. It was additionally his only LP to include timeless structures executed by his good friend and fellow pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo. Before that, Joel’s last significant cd was 1993’s River of Dreams.
In 2007, Joel launched “All My Life,” a standalone song created for his then-wife, Katie Lee, as a wedding anniversary present. That very same year, Joel launched “Christmas in Fallujah,” a rock song including Cass Dillion on vocals.
Joel informed Rolling Stone in 2019 that he hadn’t quit composing songs totally. “I just don’t record it,” he stated, “and [the music is] not in song form. It’s another kind of music altogether. It’s purely for my own edification. I don’t feel compelled to record it. I don’t feel compelled to make myself be relevant. Like I said, I lived the rock & roll life, and I’m not writing that anymore.”
In June 2023, Joel revealed that he would certainly finish his persisting performance collection at Madison Square Garden, which started in January 2014. His long-running residency will formally end in July 2024 with his 150th life time efficiency at the place. A rep for Joel verified to The Guardian at the time that though the MSG residency was pertaining to an end, the “Piano Man” was not retiring.