THE LEGEND: BILLY JOEL
Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy® nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy® Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, the organization’s highest honor, in 2001. In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and he received the Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award, presented for albums that have sold more than 10 million copies. In 2003 he, along with Stuart Malina, won the Tony Award® for Best Orchestrations for Movin’ Out.

A humanitarian as well as a musician, Joel has donated his time and resources to a variety of charitable causes. A longtime advocate for music education, he first began holding “master class” sessions on college campuses more than 20 years ago, giving sessions at colleges across the country and around the world. In addition, he has held classes as a benefit for the STAR Foundation (Standing for Truth About Radiation) and to establish the Rosalind Joel Scholarship for the Performing Arts at City College in New York City. For these many accomplishments, Billy Joel was honored as the 2002 MusiCares Person of the Year by the MusiCares Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

Billy Joel

Billy Joel had an affinity for music from an early age. As a child living in Hicksville, New York, Joel began studying classical piano when he was four years old and founded his own rock band when he was 14. Joel’s albums have continued to document the emotional landscape of communities like the one in which he grew up. His work has spanned the genres from hard-hitting rock (such as the song “Pressure”) to Motown (“Uptown Girl”). Most recently, he’s returned to his earliest roots and has composed classical instrument music, some of which can be heard in Visa presents Movin’ Out. He is a man with a vision and his music is influencing today’s up-and-coming stars as they record the sounds and stories of the generations to come.

SONG LIST
Though not all of Billy Joel’s hit songs could be included in Visa presents Movin’ Out, his enthusiasts will no doubt enjoy the classics which are featured in this upbeat show.

1. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
2. Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
3. Reverie
4. Just the Way You Are
5. The Longest Time
6. Uptown Girl
7. This Night
8. Summer, Highland Falls
9. Waltz (No. 1)
10. We Didn’t Start the Fire
11. She’s Got a Way
12. The Stranger
13. Elegy
14. Invention in C Minor
15. Angry Young Man
16. Big Shot
17. Big Man on Mulberry Street
18. Captain Jack
19. An Innocent Man
20. Pressure
21. Goodnight Saigon
22. Air (Dublinesque)
23. Shameless
24. James
25. The River of Dreams/ Keeping the Faith/ Only the Good Die Young
26. I’ve Loved These Days/ Scenes From an Italian Restaurant