Billy Joel hasn’t launched a new single for the lengthiest time….Oh, ohhh, oh. For the lengthiest time.
But that will certainly quickly transform with the Piano Man revealing Monday that his new track labelled “Turn the Lights Back On” will certainly debut on Feb. 1.
For Joel – a six-time Grammy champion whose last pop cd was “River of Dreams” in 1993 – it will certainly be his initial new single considering that 2007.
The track, according to Monday’s press release from Columbia Records, is a “classic Billy Joel-style tune, embodying the hallmarks of his signature sound and ushering in the next chapter of his story. In the lyrics, he asks, ‘Did I wait too long… to turn the lights back on?’”
Joel, the fourth-best-selling solo musician in the United States, initial meant the perhaps of new product throughout his show on Dec. 19 at Madison Square Garden.
“I have good news and bad news,” Joel informed the group throughout the program. “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.”
Speculation proceeded Sunday after the cover image on Joel’s Facebook web page was altered to a photo with the words, “Did I wait too long…”
The news of the new single was after that made Monday, with a tease of Joel having fun the piano.
The track – which Joel created with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector – will certainly be offered on all streaming systems and on a limited-edition plastic. A verse video clip will certainly additionally be launched on Joel’s main YouTube network. Joel has actually not yet revealed if even more product, or perhaps a complete pop cd, are to comply with.
YouTube and streaming did not exist when Joel’s last workshop cd – the classic piano collection “Fantasies & Delusions” – was launched in 2001.
Joel did not release a single with verses till the 2007 ballad “All My Life,” which he created for his then-wife Katie Lee. Later that year, Joel’s track “Christmas in Fallujah” was launched with Cass Dillon on lead vocals. A real-time variation of the track, with Joel on vocals, was launched in 2008.
Joel has actually explored thoroughly regardless of the absence of new product, offering out locations and filling up collection checklists with his lots of crowd-pleasing hits like “Piano Man” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Joel, that is established to dip into the Tokyo Dome in Japan later on today, revealed in June that he would certainly finish his historical regular monthly residency at Madison Square Garden, throughout which he has actually done one program monthly at the New York place considering that January 2014. Joel will certainly play his last MSG residency program on July 25, which will certainly be his 150th occupation program at the place, the a lot of any kind of music musician.
The Piano Man has actually seen the lights head out on Broadway, however he has actually transformed the lights back on in the workshop.
Billy Joel is “Movin’ Out” of MSG! The fabulous artist revealed the end of his 10-year residency in Manhattan — right here’s when he’ll play his last program. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff records.
