Billy Joel – 52nd Street (VG/VG) – LP, AU 1978

52nd Street is an LP by Billy Joel from 1978 released on the CBS label.

About this album

52nd Street is one of Billy Joel’s most accomplished albums, sharpening his pop instincts with jazz colours, crisp band arrangements and a more sophisticated urban feel. Issued in 1978, it followed the breakthrough success of The Stranger and showed Joel broadening his sound without losing the melodic directness that made him a star. Produced with considerable polish, the album balances radio-ready hooks with tighter rhythmic interplay and touches of Latin jazz, heard in songs such as Big Shot, Honesty and Zanzibar. It became a major commercial success and helped confirm Joel as a defining mainstream singer-songwriter of the late 1970s.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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