GOODNIGHT
SAIGON
BILLY
JOEL
SONGWRITER: JOEL BILLY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE NYLON CURTAIN
LABEL: FAMILY PRODUCTIONS
GENRE: POP
ROCK
YEAR: 1982
William Martin Joel(born May 9, 1949) is an
American musician, composer and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano
Man" after his first major hit and signature song of the same name as well as the similarly named 1973 album,
he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s,
having released 12 studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album
in 2001. He is one of the best-selling
music artists of all time, as well as the
seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo artist
in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985
compilation album, Greatest Hits
Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
Joel
was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York, and grew up on Long Island, both
places that influenced his music. Growing up, he took piano lessons at his
mother's insistence. After dropping out of high school
to pursue a musical career, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila,
before signing a record deal with Family Productions and kicking off a solo
career in 1971 with his first release Cold Spring
Harbor. In 1972, Joel caught the attention of Columbia Records after a live radio performance of the song "Captain Jack"
became popular in Philadelphia, prompting him to sign a new record deal with
the company and release his second album, Piano Man,
in 1973. After releasing the albums Streetlife
Serenade and Turnstiles in 1974 and 1976 respectively, Joel released his critical and
commercial breakthrough album, The Stranger,
in 1977. This album
became Columbia's best-selling release, selling over 10 million copies and
spawning several hit singles, including "Just the Way You Are",
"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "Only the Good Die Young", and "She's Always a Woman"; another song
on this album, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant",
is Joel's favorite of his own songs and has become a staple of his live shows.
The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album
by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel,
released on September 23, 1982, and produced by Phil Ramone.
The Nylon Curtain peaked at Nº 7 on the Billboard albums chart, with
two million sales in the U.S. It was one of the first albums to be digitally
recorded, mixed, and mastered.
We met as soul mates
On Parris Island
We left as inmates
From an asylum
And we were sharp
As sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho
To lay down our lives
We came in spastic
Like tameless horses
We left in plastic
As numbered corpses
And we learned fast
To travel light
Our arms were heavy
But our bellies were tight
We had no home front
We had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy
They gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep
And shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ
With all of our might
We had no cameras
To shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe
And played our Doors tapes
And it was dark
So dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together
Remember Charlie
Remember Baker
They left their childhood
On every acre
And who was wrong?
And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight
We held the day
In the palm
Of our hand
They ruled the night
And the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks
On Parris Island
We held the coastline
They held the highlands
And they were sharp
As sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together.
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