Billy Joel

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About Billy Joel

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Having sold more than 100 million records over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, Billy Joel ranks as one of most popular recording artists and respected entertainers in the world.

Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. He received the Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award, presented for albums that have sold more than 10 million copies, for his "Greatest Hits Volume I and Volume II."

Taking its name from a key track on The Stranger, "Movin' Out," a Broadway musical based on Joel's music, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, was nominated for 10 Tony Awards and took home two including Best Orchestrations--Billy's first Tony Award win--and Best Choreography.

Billy Joel received Grammy awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1978 for his song "Just the Way You Are"; Album of the Year in 1979 for "52nd Street"; and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1979 for "52nd Street" and in 1980 for "Glass Houses" In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, he was also presented with the Johnny Mercer Award in 2001. In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and in 2004 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His other awards include the ASCAP Founders Award, the BMI Career Achievement Award, the American Music Awards Award of Merit, and the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.

Billy Joel has donated his time and resources to a variety of charitable causes, and he has recently launched an ongoing educational initiative to provide seed money, musical scholarships, and endowments to a variety of East Coast colleges, universities, and music schools. For his accomplishments as a musician and as a humanitarian, he was honored as the 2002 MusiCares Person of the Year by the MusiCares Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; he has also received a humanitarian award from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

The net proceeds of Billy Joel's latest composition, "Christmas in Fallujah," inspired by soldiers' letters from Iraq, are being donated to Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds specially adapted homes for disabled service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Music

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  • I Go To Extremes (Live at Yankee Stadium)
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  •  John Mellencamp and Billy Joel on stage at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel March 10, 2008 in New York City.
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    John Mellencamp and Billy Joel on stage at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel March 10, 2008 in New York City.
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    Billy Joel at the Songwriters Hall of Fame 32nd Annual Awards at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City.
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    ‘American Idol’: Top 10 Take On Billy Joel
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    Last night the Top 10 touring American Idol contestants took on Billy Joel's all-American songbook. (Sadly, "We Didn't Start The Fire" wasn't included...
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    Billy Joel Pays Tribute to Phil Ramone: He Was the King'
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    Billy Joel Pays Tribute to Phil Ramone: He Was the King'
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    Preservation Hall Jazz Band Sit In With Billy Joel at Jazz Fest
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Discography

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  • Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (2011)
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    Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (2011)
  • 12 Gardens Live (2006)
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    12 Gardens Live (2006)
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  • Fantasies & Delusions (Music for Solo Piano) (2001)
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    Fantasies & Delusions (Music for Solo Piano) (2001)
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  • 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert (2000)
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    2000 Years: The Millennium Concert (2000)
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  • River of Dreams (1993)
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    River of Dreams (1993)
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  • Storm Front (1989)
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    Storm Front (1989)
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  • Kohuept (Live in Leningrad) (1987)
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    Kohuept (Live in Leningrad) (1987)
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  • The Bridge (1986)
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    The Bridge (1986)
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  • An Innocent Man (1983)
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    An Innocent Man (1983)
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  • The Nylon Curtain (1982)
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    The Nylon Curtain (1982)
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