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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: BJ PBS special 7.23 |
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Newsday
TAKE 5: No stranger to TV
ANDY EDELSTEIN
July 20, 2008
Now that Billy Joel has played his two shows at Shea Stadium, there's
still another chance to catch him performing. On Wednesday at 9 p.m.,
WLIW/21 airs "Billy Joel: The Stranger Live," a 1978 performance that
was originally broadcast on the BBC. Here are five of Joel's memorable
TV moments:
March 1974 - His first national exposure is on "Don Kirshner's Rock
Concert." He performed "Piano Man," "Somewhere Along the Line" and
"Captain Jack."
Feb. 18, 1978 - His first appearance on "Saturday Night Live" - on an
episode hosted by former "SNL" star Chevy Chase. Joel sang "Just the
Way You Are" and "Only the Good Die Young.
July 1983 - HBO airs "Billy Joel: A Television First," taped at Nassau
Coliseum at the close of a 36-city U.S. tour. HBO would later air Joel
concerts from Leningrad (1987) and Yankee Stadium (1990)
1983 - "Uptown Girl" music video: In what is arguably his most
memorable music video, Joel played a mechanic with a crush on a
gorgeous woman, played by his then-girlfriend, model Christie
Brinkley.
Feb. 4, 2007 - Joel sings "The Star Spangled Banner" before Super Bowl
XLI in Miami. He becomes the first person to sing the national anthem
at two Super Bowls. (The other was Super Bowl XXIII in 1989.)
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-fftake5765812jul20a,0,4220887.story |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: BJ PBS special 7.23 |
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VINTAGE JOEL CONCERT RESURFACES
PIANO MAN SINGS ON BRITISH TV
By ROBERT RORKE
July 20, 2008
Fans who are still raving about Billy Joel's triumphant Shea Stadium
concerts last week can keep the momentum going by tuning into a rare
early British television concert on Channel 21 Wednesday night. In
1978, Joel appeared on "The Old Grey Whistle Test," an enormously
popular music show. He was far from well-known in Europe at the time
and sang many of the hits from his 1977 breakthrough album, "The
Stranger," which has been remastered for its 30th anniversary.Joel
producer Phil Ramone, who was the singer's collaborator on "The
Stranger," will be on hand Wednesday night to talk about the impact of
that record on Joel's career and his enduring popularity.
"That album had legs. It became for iconic for Billy and changed my
life completely," says Ramone, who had just won a Grammy - he has nine
of them - for producing Paul Simon's album "Still Crazy After All
These Years" when Joel hired him.
"It was the height of the album era," Ramone says, when sides one and
two of a record had a distinct personality and radio station program
managers would listen to a minute each of the first few songs on a
record before deciding to play it. "The Stranger," which took only six
weeks to produce, yielded four hit singles, but "Just The Way You Are"
was the biggest of them. It won the Grammy for Record of the Year and
Song of the Year, showing a sophistication in Joel's singing and
composing that he was afraid wouldn't register with a rock-loving
audience.
"In an arena, people either go to the bathroom or a beer when you do a
ballad," Ramone says. "But when Billy does several of these [kind of]
songs, the attention that they get with the crowd is huge."
Ramone's favorite song on "The Stranger" is the seven-minute "Scenes
From An Italian Restaurant."
"I love the way the song evolves. Most of Billy's stuff is a short-
subject film or even a whole movie He writes something that's
picturesque. That was what a concept album was. In seven minutes, it
gives you an outlook. It's like a good book."
BILLY JOEL: THE STRANGER LIVE
Wednesday, 9 p.m., Ch. 21
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202008/tv/vintage_joel_concert_resurfaces_120497.htm
Wednesday, 9 p.m., Ch. 21 |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: Re: BJ PBS special 7.23 |
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Is this different from the DVD that was included in his recently released
30th Anniverasary edtion of The Stranger, or is it the exact same concert?
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| Quote: | VINTAGE JOEL CONCERT RESURFACES
PIANO MAN SINGS ON BRITISH TV
By ROBERT RORKE
July 20, 2008
Fans who are still raving about Billy Joel's triumphant Shea Stadium
concerts last week can keep the momentum going by tuning into a rare
early British television concert on Channel 21 Wednesday night. In
1978, Joel appeared on "The Old Grey Whistle Test," an enormously
popular music show. He was far from well-known in Europe at the time
and sang many of the hits from his 1977 breakthrough album, "The
Stranger," which has been remastered for its 30th anniversary.Joel
producer Phil Ramone, who was the singer's collaborator on "The
Stranger," will be on hand Wednesday night to talk about the impact of
that record on Joel's career and his enduring popularity.
"That album had legs. It became for iconic for Billy and changed my
life completely," says Ramone, who had just won a Grammy - he has nine
of them - for producing Paul Simon's album "Still Crazy After All
These Years" when Joel hired him.
"It was the height of the album era," Ramone says, when sides one and
two of a record had a distinct personality and radio station program
managers would listen to a minute each of the first few songs on a
record before deciding to play it. "The Stranger," which took only six
weeks to produce, yielded four hit singles, but "Just The Way You Are"
was the biggest of them. It won the Grammy for Record of the Year and
Song of the Year, showing a sophistication in Joel's singing and
composing that he was afraid wouldn't register with a rock-loving
audience.
"In an arena, people either go to the bathroom or a beer when you do a
ballad," Ramone says. "But when Billy does several of these [kind of]
songs, the attention that they get with the crowd is huge."
Ramone's favorite song on "The Stranger" is the seven-minute "Scenes
From An Italian Restaurant."
"I love the way the song evolves. Most of Billy's stuff is a short-
subject film or even a whole movie He writes something that's
picturesque. That was what a concept album was. In seven minutes, it
gives you an outlook. It's like a good book."
BILLY JOEL: THE STRANGER LIVE
Wednesday, 9 p.m., Ch. 21
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202008/tv/vintage_joel_concert_resurfaces_120497.htm
Wednesday, 9 p.m., Ch. 21 |
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