Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977) Vinyl LP • Movin' Out, Vienna

Catalog Number: JC-34987

Record Grading: Very Good (VG), Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

Condition Details:

Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays with crackles and a few light-clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges (front/back); large tear in shrink near top-right, tear in shrink near top-left of front. Inner-sleeve is original (photos/lyrics/credits); seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
• The Stranger
• Just The Way You Are
• Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
• Vienna
• Only The Good Die Young
• She's Always A Woman
• Get It Right The First Time
• Everybody Has A Dream
• Untitled

About The Record:

The Stranger was Billy Joel's breakthrough album, while his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes. The album spent six weeks at No. 2 in the U.S. album charts. It remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date and was ranked No. 70 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The Stranger contains nine songs; each song had stories attached to it. The seven-and-a-half-minute epic Scenes From an Italian Restaurant began as the shorter Ballad of Brenda and Eddie, a section that now forms the third part of the song. Joel came up with the signature whistle line for the title track, which he whistled to producer Phil Ramone, claiming that he needed to find an instrument to play it. Ramone replied: "No, you don't. That's The Stranger, the whistling." Four singles from the LP charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the following order: Just the Way You Are (No. 3), Movin' Out (No. 17), Only the Good Die Young (No. 24), and She's Always a Woman (No. 17). Many of the songs on the album are now staples on classic rock FM radio stations.