The Hassles, \u2018Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"Syosset,](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-the-hassles.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Dick Kraus\/Newsday RM\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThe Hassles never found much traction outside of their native Long Island, and their live set was largely Top 40 hits by other artists of the day. But they did have a handful of originals that hinted at the budding brilliance of a young keyboardist\/singer named William Martin Joel. Their best song is \u201cEvery Step I Take (Every Move I Make),\u201d which sounds like a lost song by Vanilla Fudge or the Rascals. It\u2019s a pure blast of 1967 blue-eyed-soul. The Hassles were inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in June. It\u2019s a shame that Joel wasn\u2019t on hand for a long awaited reunion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nAttila, \u2018Holy Moses\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"NEW](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-rollingstone-2022\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
![\"NEW](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-attila.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThroughout the Sixties and early Seventies, Billy Joel jumped from musical trend to musical trend like a one-man Spinal Tap. In 1969, he ditched the Hassles and formed the hard rock\/psychedelic duo Attila with his longtime buddy Jon Small. They were an odd duo with Joel handling keyboard, bass lines, and vocals, while Small played the drums, but somehow Epic saw potential and gave them a record contract. Rock critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls their lone release \u201cundoubtedly is the worst album released in the history of rock & roll \u2014 hell, the history of recorded music itself,\u201d and Joel basically agrees whenever the subject comes up. But we can\u2019t help but feel a little affection for \u201cHoly Moses.\u201d Who could have ever heard this ridiculous song and imagined the singer would come out with \u201cShe\u2019s Got a Way\u201d just one year later?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u2018Everybody Loves You Now,\u2019 Live At The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA \u2013 6\/8\/1975<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"CIRCA](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-everybody-loves-you-now.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tJoel\u2019s 1971 debut LP Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> was a complete fiasco. Producer Artie Ripp had almost no clue what he was doing, and a mastering error on initial pressings of the LP made Billy sound like a chipmunk. When it flopped, Joel famously took a gig at the Executive Room piano lounge under the name William Martin, and vanished into anonymity. But Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> had stellar songs on it that popped onstage. This great rendition of \u201cEverybody Loves You Now\u201d from the 1975 Piano Man<\/em> tour is proof of that. If the song sounded like this on the album, history might have unfolded very differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Captain Jack,\u2019 Live At Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA for WMMR-FM \u2013 4\/15\/1972<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"Newest](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-captain-jack.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tWhen Billy Joel and his touring band did a little show Philadelphia radio station WMMR, it just seemed like one stop on the grueling Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> tour. But his set included the new song \u201cCaptain Jack,\u201d and feedback was so strong from listeners that it went into heavy rotation on the local airwaves, attracting the attention of Columbia head Clive Davis. He signed Joel to the label in 1973. It\u2019s one of the most pivotal moments of his career, and it\u2019s all because of this seven-minute tune about a drug dealer, which he hadn\u2019t even recorded yet. (Is \u201cCaptain Jack the best song in rock history to feature the world \u201cmasturbate?\u201d We vote yes.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Say Goodbye to Hollywood,\u2019 Live At Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI \u2013 7\/14\/1980<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"Billy](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-say-goodbye-to-hollywood.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Chris Walter\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tBilly Joel spent many formative years in Los Angeles, and they inspired some of his most beloved songs, but he\u2019s a New York guy at heart. He moved back to Long Island in 1975 and never looked back. The joy he felt upon returning was captured both in the hit \u201cNewYork State of Mind,\u201d and this overlooked gem, \u201cSay Goodbye To Hollywood.\u201d It\u2019s a throwback that could have been recorded by the Ronettes, and Ronnie Spector even recorded it with the E Street Band in 1975. This wonderful rendition from a 1980 gig in Milwaukee appeared on Songs in the Attic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,\u2019 Live At C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY \u2013 5\/6\/1977<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"Billy](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-scenes-from-an-italian-restaurant.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Paul Natkin\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThere are 882 known live renditions of \u201cScenes From an Italian Restaurant,\u201d and surely many more from concerts lost to history. One of the very first took place May 6, 1977, when the Turnstiles<\/em> tour hit C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York. The show was professionally taped, giving us this wonderful recording that proves the masterpiece was born fully-formed. \u201cThis is a brand new song,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is a premiere, I guess. I\u2019d like to dedicate it to Christiano\u2019s restaurant.\u201d (He later admitted it was actually inspired by the New York restaurant Fontana di Trevi.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Vienna,\u2019 Live Masterclass At Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg, Germany \u2013 6\/4 and 6\/5\/1995<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t![\"Billy](\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/joel-box-list-vienna-2.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rob Verhorst\/Redferns\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Hassles never found much traction outside of their native Long Island, and their live set was largely Top 40 hits by other artists of the day. But they did have a handful of originals that hinted at the budding brilliance of a young keyboardist\/singer named William Martin Joel. Their best song is \u201cEvery Step I Take (Every Move I Make),\u201d which sounds like a lost song by Vanilla Fudge or the Rascals. It\u2019s a pure blast of 1967 blue-eyed-soul. The Hassles were inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in June. It\u2019s a shame that Joel wasn\u2019t on hand for a long awaited reunion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Attila, \u2018Holy Moses\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThroughout the Sixties and early Seventies, Billy Joel jumped from musical trend to musical trend like a one-man Spinal Tap. In 1969, he ditched the Hassles and formed the hard rock\/psychedelic duo Attila with his longtime buddy Jon Small. They were an odd duo with Joel handling keyboard, bass lines, and vocals, while Small played the drums, but somehow Epic saw potential and gave them a record contract. Rock critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls their lone release \u201cundoubtedly is the worst album released in the history of rock & roll \u2014 hell, the history of recorded music itself,\u201d and Joel basically agrees whenever the subject comes up. But we can\u2019t help but feel a little affection for \u201cHoly Moses.\u201d Who could have ever heard this ridiculous song and imagined the singer would come out with \u201cShe\u2019s Got a Way\u201d just one year later?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u2018Everybody Loves You Now,\u2019 Live At The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA \u2013 6\/8\/1975<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tJoel\u2019s 1971 debut LP Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> was a complete fiasco. Producer Artie Ripp had almost no clue what he was doing, and a mastering error on initial pressings of the LP made Billy sound like a chipmunk. When it flopped, Joel famously took a gig at the Executive Room piano lounge under the name William Martin, and vanished into anonymity. But Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> had stellar songs on it that popped onstage. This great rendition of \u201cEverybody Loves You Now\u201d from the 1975 Piano Man<\/em> tour is proof of that. If the song sounded like this on the album, history might have unfolded very differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Captain Jack,\u2019 Live At Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA for WMMR-FM \u2013 4\/15\/1972<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tWhen Billy Joel and his touring band did a little show Philadelphia radio station WMMR, it just seemed like one stop on the grueling Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> tour. But his set included the new song \u201cCaptain Jack,\u201d and feedback was so strong from listeners that it went into heavy rotation on the local airwaves, attracting the attention of Columbia head Clive Davis. He signed Joel to the label in 1973. It\u2019s one of the most pivotal moments of his career, and it\u2019s all because of this seven-minute tune about a drug dealer, which he hadn\u2019t even recorded yet. (Is \u201cCaptain Jack the best song in rock history to feature the world \u201cmasturbate?\u201d We vote yes.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Say Goodbye to Hollywood,\u2019 Live At Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI \u2013 7\/14\/1980<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Chris Walter\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tBilly Joel spent many formative years in Los Angeles, and they inspired some of his most beloved songs, but he\u2019s a New York guy at heart. He moved back to Long Island in 1975 and never looked back. The joy he felt upon returning was captured both in the hit \u201cNewYork State of Mind,\u201d and this overlooked gem, \u201cSay Goodbye To Hollywood.\u201d It\u2019s a throwback that could have been recorded by the Ronettes, and Ronnie Spector even recorded it with the E Street Band in 1975. This wonderful rendition from a 1980 gig in Milwaukee appeared on Songs in the Attic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,\u2019 Live At C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY \u2013 5\/6\/1977<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Paul Natkin\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThere are 882 known live renditions of \u201cScenes From an Italian Restaurant,\u201d and surely many more from concerts lost to history. One of the very first took place May 6, 1977, when the Turnstiles<\/em> tour hit C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York. The show was professionally taped, giving us this wonderful recording that proves the masterpiece was born fully-formed. \u201cThis is a brand new song,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is a premiere, I guess. I\u2019d like to dedicate it to Christiano\u2019s restaurant.\u201d (He later admitted it was actually inspired by the New York restaurant Fontana di Trevi.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Vienna,\u2019 Live Masterclass At Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg, Germany \u2013 6\/4 and 6\/5\/1995<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rob Verhorst\/Redferns\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThroughout the Sixties and early Seventies, Billy Joel jumped from musical trend to musical trend like a one-man Spinal Tap. In 1969, he ditched the Hassles and formed the hard rock\/psychedelic duo Attila with his longtime buddy Jon Small. They were an odd duo with Joel handling keyboard, bass lines, and vocals, while Small played the drums, but somehow Epic saw potential and gave them a record contract. Rock critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls their lone release \u201cundoubtedly is the worst album released in the history of rock & roll \u2014 hell, the history of recorded music itself,\u201d and Joel basically agrees whenever the subject comes up. But we can\u2019t help but feel a little affection for \u201cHoly Moses.\u201d Who could have ever heard this ridiculous song and imagined the singer would come out with \u201cShe\u2019s Got a Way\u201d just one year later?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u2018Everybody Loves You Now,\u2019 Live At The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA \u2013 6\/8\/1975<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tJoel\u2019s 1971 debut LP Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> was a complete fiasco. Producer Artie Ripp had almost no clue what he was doing, and a mastering error on initial pressings of the LP made Billy sound like a chipmunk. When it flopped, Joel famously took a gig at the Executive Room piano lounge under the name William Martin, and vanished into anonymity. But Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> had stellar songs on it that popped onstage. This great rendition of \u201cEverybody Loves You Now\u201d from the 1975 Piano Man<\/em> tour is proof of that. If the song sounded like this on the album, history might have unfolded very differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Captain Jack,\u2019 Live At Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA for WMMR-FM \u2013 4\/15\/1972<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tWhen Billy Joel and his touring band did a little show Philadelphia radio station WMMR, it just seemed like one stop on the grueling Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> tour. But his set included the new song \u201cCaptain Jack,\u201d and feedback was so strong from listeners that it went into heavy rotation on the local airwaves, attracting the attention of Columbia head Clive Davis. He signed Joel to the label in 1973. It\u2019s one of the most pivotal moments of his career, and it\u2019s all because of this seven-minute tune about a drug dealer, which he hadn\u2019t even recorded yet. (Is \u201cCaptain Jack the best song in rock history to feature the world \u201cmasturbate?\u201d We vote yes.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Say Goodbye to Hollywood,\u2019 Live At Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI \u2013 7\/14\/1980<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Chris Walter\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tBilly Joel spent many formative years in Los Angeles, and they inspired some of his most beloved songs, but he\u2019s a New York guy at heart. He moved back to Long Island in 1975 and never looked back. The joy he felt upon returning was captured both in the hit \u201cNewYork State of Mind,\u201d and this overlooked gem, \u201cSay Goodbye To Hollywood.\u201d It\u2019s a throwback that could have been recorded by the Ronettes, and Ronnie Spector even recorded it with the E Street Band in 1975. This wonderful rendition from a 1980 gig in Milwaukee appeared on Songs in the Attic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,\u2019 Live At C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY \u2013 5\/6\/1977<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Paul Natkin\/WireImage\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\n\n\tThere are 882 known live renditions of \u201cScenes From an Italian Restaurant,\u201d and surely many more from concerts lost to history. One of the very first took place May 6, 1977, when the Turnstiles<\/em> tour hit C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York. The show was professionally taped, giving us this wonderful recording that proves the masterpiece was born fully-formed. \u201cThis is a brand new song,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is a premiere, I guess. I\u2019d like to dedicate it to Christiano\u2019s restaurant.\u201d (He later admitted it was actually inspired by the New York restaurant Fontana di Trevi.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\n\u2018Vienna,\u2019 Live Masterclass At Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg, Germany \u2013 6\/4 and 6\/5\/1995<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rob Verhorst\/Redferns\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/p>\n
\t<\/p>\n
\n\tJoel\u2019s 1971 debut LP Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> was a complete fiasco. Producer Artie Ripp had almost no clue what he was doing, and a mastering error on initial pressings of the LP made Billy sound like a chipmunk. When it flopped, Joel famously took a gig at the Executive Room piano lounge under the name William Martin, and vanished into anonymity. But Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> had stellar songs on it that popped onstage. This great rendition of \u201cEverybody Loves You Now\u201d from the 1975 Piano Man<\/em> tour is proof of that. If the song sounded like this on the album, history might have unfolded very differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tWhen Billy Joel and his touring band did a little show Philadelphia radio station WMMR, it just seemed like one stop on the grueling Cold Spring Harbor<\/em> tour. But his set included the new song \u201cCaptain Jack,\u201d and feedback was so strong from listeners that it went into heavy rotation on the local airwaves, attracting the attention of Columbia head Clive Davis. He signed Joel to the label in 1973. It\u2019s one of the most pivotal moments of his career, and it\u2019s all because of this seven-minute tune about a drug dealer, which he hadn\u2019t even recorded yet. (Is \u201cCaptain Jack the best song in rock history to feature the world \u201cmasturbate?\u201d We vote yes.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tBilly Joel spent many formative years in Los Angeles, and they inspired some of his most beloved songs, but he\u2019s a New York guy at heart. He moved back to Long Island in 1975 and never looked back. The joy he felt upon returning was captured both in the hit \u201cNewYork State of Mind,\u201d and this overlooked gem, \u201cSay Goodbye To Hollywood.\u201d It\u2019s a throwback that could have been recorded by the Ronettes, and Ronnie Spector even recorded it with the E Street Band in 1975. This wonderful rendition from a 1980 gig in Milwaukee appeared on Songs in the Attic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n \n\tThere are 882 known live renditions of \u201cScenes From an Italian Restaurant,\u201d and surely many more from concerts lost to history. One of the very first took place May 6, 1977, when the Turnstiles<\/em> tour hit C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York. The show was professionally taped, giving us this wonderful recording that proves the masterpiece was born fully-formed. \u201cThis is a brand new song,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is a premiere, I guess. I\u2019d like to dedicate it to Christiano\u2019s restaurant.\u201d (He later admitted it was actually inspired by the New York restaurant Fontana di Trevi.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \t<\/p>\n\u2018Captain Jack,\u2019 Live At Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA for WMMR-FM \u2013 4\/15\/1972<\/h2>\n
\u2018Say Goodbye to Hollywood,\u2019 Live At Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI \u2013 7\/14\/1980<\/h2>\n
\u2018Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,\u2019 Live At C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY \u2013 5\/6\/1977<\/h2>\n
\u2018Vienna,\u2019 Live Masterclass At Meistersingerhalle, Nuremberg, Germany \u2013 6\/4 and 6\/5\/1995<\/h2>\n
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