Turnstiles marked the first time that Joel's band played on one of his studio albums.

Backed by Joel's band, he sang lead vocals on " Walk This Way ".

For their 1991 tour, Jeff Jacobs, who'd played in Billy Joel's band, was brought in as the new keyboardist and Mark Rivera returned.

Joel's working pseudonyms include " Crab Bloke " ( which is the name of his user account on B3ta ), " The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom " ( used on his website ), and " Stallion Explosion " ( as lead singer of the band 7 Seconds of Love which he promotes heavily on his site by making music videos for them ).

The limited deluxe edition of The Stranger includes a CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone ; a CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy and his band, Live At Carnegie Hall 1977, recorded at the historic Manhattan venue on June 3, 1977, one month prior to the sessions for The Stranger album ; a DVD showcasing two live promotional videos from The Stranger ; and Joel's performance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, a seldom-seen sixty minute set from 1978 that has aired only once on the UK's BBC2.

Joel's friend, Miles ( Curtis Armstrong ), convinces him to take advantage of his newfound freedom to have some fun.

After Joel's departure from the S. O. L., the Mads tried to rescue him, but gave up seconds later when they discovered that he had already safely landed in the Australian Outback.

Instead of killing Mike, as they initially planned, they sent him up to take Joel's place.

That book also describes how Paul McCartney's Yesterday was heard by him in a dream and Most of Billy Joel's and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's music has originated in dreams.

In response, the Mads kidnap Mike and send him up to the Satellite of Love to take Joel's place.

Bruce and Kara's ceremony is disrupted by a super-powered Joel Kent, who attacks and violently kills Kara ; Joel's death in Vietnam was faked after Luthor convinced him that Superman deliberately exposed him to gold kryptonite so that Joel couldn't replace him.

Joel's powers are the result of a serum created by Luthor but, as Luthor knows, the serum is unstable and Joel dies a few minutes after killing his sister, living just long enough for Luthor to mockingly inform him that he lied.

Joel's Rabbi offers him a Sen-Sen before ingesting a few himself.

He succeeded his uncle as Satmar rebbe, following his death in 1979, though some dissidents in Satmar opposed him, including the Bnei Yoel ( or Kagners, opponents ), a group of Satmar Hasidim that did not accept Teitelbaum as rebbe and remained loyal to Joel's wife Alta Fayga Teitelbaum, and her candidate for rebbe, Nachman Brach.

The album was released by Family Productions, but through an error in the album's mastering, the songs were slightly too fast, up one half step, causing Joel's voice to sound unnaturally high.

As part of a deal with Columbia Records to release Joel from his record contract, Ripp was still able to collect large royalties on sales of Joel's biggest hit records long after Joel's acrimonious departure from Family Productions ( up until 1986's The Bridge ).

Joel's tenure as host was marked by " invention exchanges ", where Joel and his mad scientist tormentors would come up with wacky inventions in a contest with each other.

Joel's " sleepy eyed " persona was reportedly the result of Hodgson staying up all night working non-stop on the pilot, which was kept after the pilot was shot because the crew and other performers thought it was funny.

The Bridge was Joel's last album to carry the " Family Productions " logo which had appeared on all of Joel's albums up to that time as part of a deal that Columbia Records made to get Joel out of his recording contract with Artie Ripp's Family Productions.

This is the last pop album made by Joel, and presented a much more serious tone as a whole, dealing with issues such as trust and long-lasting love ; it was rumored that the themes of trust and betrayal, particularly certain lyrics from the songs " A Minor Variation " and " The Great Wall of China ", stem from Joel's legal disputes with his former manager and ex-brother-in-law, Frank Weber, who reportedly embezzled millions of dollars from Joel and used dubious accounting practices to cover it up.

Later, he stands up to Joel, another co-worker, and the dispute ends with Joel's firing, prompting Dan to observe that " there is justice in the galaxy.

This radio broadcast was extremely important to the success of Joel's music career because after the show was recorded, the live recording of " Captain Jack " was played by the Philly station and quickly became " the most requested song in the station's history.

The album is among Joel's most ambitious albums, and Joel has openly acknowledged that it's one of his personal favorites, calling it " the recording I'm most proud of and the material I'm most proud of.

2000 Years: The Millennium Concert also marked the first time several songs had to be transposed to lower keys to accommodate Joel's deepening voice (" I Go To Extremes ", " I've Loved These Days ", " Goodnight Saigon " and " Only The Good Die Young " are in the key of B ♭ vs. C ).

The practice was also referenced in Billy Joel's song " We Didn't Start the Fire ," during the verse dealing with the events of 1960.

Piano Man, Joel's second album and his first with Columbia Records, emerged out of legal difficulties with his former label, Family Productions, and became his breakthrough album.

Streetlife Serenade is Billy Joel's third album, and his second with Columbia Records.

Joel's third album did not enjoy the relative success of its predecessor and marked the beginning of Joel's frosty relationship with music critics and the music industry in general.

In Billy Joel's " You May Be Right ( I May Be Crazy )", the in-song narrator describes his dangerous past with the phrase " I was stranded in the Combat Zone ".

The protagonist of Billy Joel's 1983 hit " Uptown Girl " contrasts himself ( a " downtown man ") with the purportedly staid uptown world.

Another dropped scene was one that took place in a bar where a very drunk Clementine tried to make Joel jealous by coming onto another man ( which might have prompted Joel's claim in his taped interview with Mierzwiak that Clementine was very promiscuous ).

The party is a huge success ; the house is packed with Joel's friends and classmates and Lana's co-workers.

" She called De Mornay " disarming as a call girl who looks more like a college girl " and credits Cruise with making " Joel's transformation from straight arrow to entrepreneur about as credible as it can be made.

* The music video for Billy Joel's song, " Tell Her About It ", which puts Joel on the stage of The Ed Sullivan Show, begins with Sullivan saying, " Thank you, Topo Gigio.

In 2007, she returned to MST3K-style riffing on bad movies, joining former castmate Mike Nelson's RiffTrax for the film Glitter, and Bill Corbett for The X-Files movie, as well as becoming a cast member on Joel Hodgson's Cinematic Titanic, making her one of a select few MST3K alumni to be involved with both Mike and Joel's successor projects.

Much of the album's success is attributed to Joel's collaboration with producer Phil Ramone, whose innovative production methods complemented Joel's songs.

Billy Joel's 1980 single, " You May Be Right " mentions the neighborhood with the lyrics " I was stranded in the Combat Zone / I walked through Bedford-Stuy alone / even rode my motorcycle in the rain " when discussing crazy things the singer had done in his life.

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson joined them on stage to sing the theme at a show in 1996, and Joel's character on MST3K later claimed to have toured with Man or Astro-man?

The radio broadcast included three songs (" Long, Long Time ," " Josephine ," and " Rosalinda ") that never made the cut onto any of Joel's studio albums.

Block Island Sound is mentioned in singer Billy Joel's song Downeaster ' Alexa, about the plight of fishermen off Long Island, New York.

One of Joel's concerts from his 1982 tour at the Coliseum was recorded for a 1983 HBO concert special and VHS release, Billy Joel: Live From Long Island.