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Over five decades of classics spanning his entire career, from chart-topping hits to beloved deep cuts<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tBilly Joel is one of the all-time great pop legends \u2014 the piano man who\u2019s kept the world singing along for over fifty years and thousands of Saturday nights. He\u2019s a songwriter with an attic full of classics, not to mention a world-beating live performer. But he\u2019s always stayed true to himself \u2014 a downtown man who ain\u2019t too pretty and ain\u2019t too proud. Billy was already a tough veteran when he blew up into rock stardom in 1977, with classics like \u201cMovin\u2019 Out (Anthony\u2019s Song)\u201d and \u201cScenes from an Italian Restaurant.\u201d Yet he just kept cranking out hits, from albums like 52nd Street, An Innocent Man<\/em>, and River of Dreams<\/em>, with experimental detours like The Nylon Curtain<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSo let\u2019s break it down \u2014 the fifty best Billy Joel songs, from all over his career. Some of these tunes are classics known and sung all over the world. Others are deep cuts, cult bangers, or hardcore fan faves. Some go back to his early days, when he wore a younger man\u2019s clothes. But they\u2019re all Billy Joel at his very best. Now that we\u2019re in the summer of 2025 \u2014 Brenda and Eddie\u2019s fiftieth wedding anniversary!\u2014let\u2019s celebrate this legend and his amazing songbook, from the hits to the buried treasures, from Miami to Hollywood to a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line. We\u2019re all in the mood for a melody, and he\u2019s got us feeling all right.<\/p>\n \n