Billy Joel – 52nd Street (VG+/VG+) – LP, JP 1978, With OBI

52nd Street is an LP by Billy Joel from 1978 released on the CBS/Sony label.

About this album

52nd Street is one of Billy Joel’s most accomplished albums, sharpening his pop instincts with jazz colours, crisp band arrangements and a more sophisticated urban feel. Issued in 1978, it followed the breakthrough success of The Stranger and showed Joel broadening his sound without losing the melodic directness that made him a star. Produced with considerable polish, the album balances radio-ready hooks with tighter rhythmic interplay and touches of Latin jazz, heard in songs such as Big Shot, Honesty and Zanzibar. It became a major commercial success and helped confirm Joel as a defining mainstream singer-songwriter of the late 1970s.