Billy Joel's Complete Columbia
Records Catalog Remastered & Available With CD Extra Video Clips
Enhanced CD Packages Include
Original Album Artwork, Unpublished Photos & Complete Lyrics
Reissues In Stores October
20th
Over the course of his extraordinary
recording career, Billy Joel has sold nearly 100 million records worldwide.
Now, Columbia Records is reissuing 15 classic titles from the Billy Joel
catalog available, for the first time, with 24-bit digitally remastered
sound in enhanced packages featuring all original album artwork, unpublished
photos and complete lyrics. Billy's legions of fans can experience his
music as never before with vibrant live performances and groundbreaking
rock videos made available as free bonus CD Extra videos included in the
new packages. All titles, except Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, are
priced as Best Value releases. The monumental Billy Joel Remastered series
is in stores October 20.
The definitive Billy Joel
collection spans the evolution of his music from Cold Spring Harbor to
The River Of Dreams and includes the following titles and CD Extra video
clips:
Cold Spring Harbor
(with live CD Extra clip:
"Everybody Loves You Now")
Piano Man
(with live CD extra clip:
"Piano Man")
Streetlife Serenade
(with live CD Extra clip:
"Souvenir")
Turnstiles
(with live CD Extra clips:
"New York State Of Mind" and "Prelude/Angry Young Man")
The Stranger
(with live CD Extra clips:
"The Stranger," "Just The Way You Are," "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant,"
and "Only The Good Die Young")
Songs In The Attic
(with live CD Extra clips:
"Los Angelenos," "Say Goodbye To Hollywood," and "You're My Home")
52nd Street
(with CD Extra video clips:
"Big Shot," "Honesty," and "My Life")
Glass Houses
(with CD Extra clips: "Sometimes
A Fantasy," "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me," and "All For Leyna")
The Nylon Curtain
(with CD Extra clips: "Pressure,"
"Goodnight Saigon," and "She's Right On Time")
An Innocent Man
(with CD Extra clips: "Tell
Her About It," "The Longest Time," "Leave A Tender Moment Alone," and "Keeping
The Faith")
Greatest Hits Volumes I &
II
(with CD Extra clips: "You're
Only Human (Second Wind)" and "The Night Is Still Young")
The Bridge (with CD Extra
clips: "A Matter Of Trust" and "Baby Grand")
Kohuept
Storm Front
(with CD Extra clips: "We
Didn't Start The Fire," "The Downeaster 'Alexa'," and "I Go To Extremes")
River Of Dreams
(with CD Extra clips: "No
Man's Land," "Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel)," and "The River Of Dreams")
Since making his first recordings
some 25 years ago, Billy Joel has become one of the most beloved and respected
entertainers in the world. He has won five Grammy Awards including Record
of the Year (1978: "Just The Way You Are"), Song of the Year (1978: "Just
The Way You Are"), Album of the Year (1979: 52nd Street), and Best Pop
Vocal Performance, Male (1979: 52nd Street; 1980: Glass Houses). In 1990,
Billy Joel received the Grammy Legend Award. He has earned three Awards
For Cable Excellence (ACE) for "A Television First, Billy Joel" (1984)
and "Live From Leningrad" (1987), three ASCAP Awards (including the Founders
Award) and 16 BMI Awards (including the BMI Career Achievement Award).
Joel was a 1992 Inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and was given
the 1994 Billboard Century Award. Among his numerous other awards and honors,
Billy Joel has been given a Doctor of Humane Letters from Fairfield University
(1991), a Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music (1993), and
a Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hofstra University (1997).
Since 1975, he has earned an astounding 69 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum
certifications from the RIAA.
