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Billy Joel 'The Complete Albums Collection' Exclusive Videos At Spinner

This week marks the release of "Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection" and the two-disc Legacy Edition of his landmark album, "Piano Man." In honor of these career retrospectives, Spinner has two exclusive videos of Billy discussing two LPs from his discography, 1977's "The Stranger" and 1983's "An Innocent Man." Check out both clips below, plus enter to win a copy of the 15-disc box

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Billy Joel Talks About 'River Of Dreams' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

With Billy Joel's The Complete Albums Collection" and "Piano Man" Legacy Edition now available, MSN Music has featured this new video of Billy talking about "River Of Dreams." You can watch the clip below.

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'Glee' Covers Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' - Watch Video

If you missed Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" being covered on "Glee" last night, you can watch the full performance in the video below. Last season, "Glee" covered "Only The Good Die Young."

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Billy Joel's 'Piano Man' Legacy Edition Gets Great Reviews!

The reviews are coming in for Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Legacy Edition, in stores today, and here are some excerpts about why the Legacy Edition should be considered essential:

"The bottom line? This Sigma Sound show is great, an absolute treasure in the Billy Joel discography and a fascinating all-too-rare portrait of an artist before he was a modern-day legend." - The Second Disc

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'Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection' And 'Piano Man' Legacy Edition Available Now!

Billy Joel's "Piano Man" 2CD Legacy Edition, and "The Complete Albums Collection" limited edition box set, have both been released today! The box set, which is available for a limited time, includes 14 remastered albums and a bonus disc with 17 rare and non-album recordings, plus two 60-page booklets.

The "Piano Man" Legacy Edition includes the original 10-song album, plus a second CD of Billy's previously unreleased 1972 WMMR radio broadcast in Philadelphia. Three songs from WMMR don't appear on any other Billy Joel album -- "Long, Long Time," "Josephine" and "Rosalinda."

In honor of today's releases, MSN Music is featuring Billy Joel videos from "The Complete Albums Collection!" Check out this video below for "Glass Houses."

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'The Last Play At Shea' On Showtime - Watch New Video

Showtime will premiere "The Last Play At Shea" documentary film on its network beginning November 11th, and they've produced this new video below! Be sure to check the reported schedule and Showtime for air times.

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Billy Joel Talks About 'Streetlife Serenade' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

In this exclusive video for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, Billy discusses the pressure to release another album after "Piano Man." That next album became "Streetlife Serenade," which features songs including "The Entertainer" and "Souvenir."

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Billy Joel Piano Man Legacy Edition - 'Josephine' Song Review

Ultimate Classic Rock has reviewed the song "Josephine" from the new Billy Joel "Piano Man" Legacy Edition, which includes a second CD with a previously unreleased 1972 radio broadcast from WMMR in Philadelphia. Three songs from the WMMR concert -- "Long, Long Time," "Josephine," and "Rosalinda" -- don't appear on any other Billy Joel album. Here is an excerpt from the review:

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Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' To Be Featured On 'Glee' Episode November 8th

"Glee" revisits the Billy Joel catalog on Tuesday, November 8th with a performance of his classic song, "Uptown Girl." Check out this video preview from tomorrow night's episode, which airs at 8/7c on FOX:

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Billy Joel on Songwriting: Ideas From Dreams

"I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning with an idea and think maybe I should write this down but then think, 'Nah, I'm too tired but it's so great I won't forget it.' And I go back to sleep and I wake up later and I think, 'Oh, what was that' -- and it's gone. But not forever. It's not gone from the little mental filing cabinet that we have - it all gets filed away. Later, right in the middle of a conversation it pops back into consciousness and I'll have to go over to the piano and work it out. And that's how I do a lot of writing. It's almost like you didn't have anything to do with it.

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Billy Joel Talks About 'Captain Jack'

"Captain Jack isn't Jack Daniels. I used to live near the projects in Long Island and there were drugs going on and the dealer was called Captain Jack. There was also smack. They used to use the rhyme for smack, Captain Jack. So I didn't mean it to be any specific drug, it's whatever people had to take to escape reality. It was drugs in general. You know I call it a look out the window song. I was just looking out there and seeing all my friends, everybody would just get their brains wasted and fried and I thought it was kind of stupid.

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Billy Joel On 'River Of Dreams'

"I wanted to do again what I liked doing when I was in bands in the sixties, bar bands. Rock and roll bands, biker bar bands, blues biker bar bands. So when I started writing the album, I kind of harkened back to those kinds of sounds, band sounds, bluesy. The album has a lot of things that have that kind of feel to it, that are kind of very rock and roll, late sixties rock."

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