Billy Joel - An Innocent Man

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musician's who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 7 we have An Innocent Man by Billy Joel (1983).

Considering that Billy Joel has banging out tunes over a 50 year career, he doesn't seem very appreciated in Britain where he has only had 5 top ten hits and 3 of them came in 1983 from this album so not a great return for him but two people who did appreciate him were my parents and it was an unusual day if we went without hearing a belt of Piano Man or My Life coming from the record player.
As i grew up i obviously took in my parents taste for the New Yorker subliminally as whenever i heard one of his songs in a Supermarkets, i always found myself singing along to his ditties as i price up the Cleaning fluids.
Before Uptown Girl reminded everyone that he was still around, his big song was Piano Man and it was only fairly recently i discovered it comes with a music video although it didn't help it much in the UK charts although it was probably the best number 136 we ever saw.
Probably my favourite Billy Joel songs is 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant', mainly because halfway through singing about Brenda and Eddie in the summer of '75, it changes to a completely different song and then ends up back where it started and the two in one songs always seem to appeal to me.
'This Night' is a real gem hidden away on the album and Beethoven is given a writing credit on the song as it is based on one of his compositions which means i can boast of knowing two Beethoven songs, this one and that one that starts Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom!!!.
So there we have it, i have a soft spot for Christie Brinkley's ex-hubby and i blame my parents although it could have been worse, they could have been Country and Western fans.