The Bridge (Billy Joel album)

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The Bridge
Studio album by Billy Joel

Publication
(s)

July 29, 1986

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

9

running time

40:06

occupation

production

Phil Ramone

Studio (s)

The Power Station, Chelsea Sound and RCA Studios, New York City
Evergreen Studios, Burbank , California

chronology
Greatest Hits Volume I & II
(1985) 		The Bridge Концерт
(1987)

The Bridge is the tenth studio album by the American musician Billy Joel .

Emergence

Joel began working on the album in 1985 and completed it in early 1986. Various guest musicians can be heard on the album, for example jazz legend Ray Charles , who contributed his piano playing and vocals to "Baby Grand", or Steve Winwood , who played the Hammond organ in "Getting Closer". The last track recorded for “The Bridge” was “Code Of Silence”, a track that Joel wrote with singer Cyndi Lauper . Lauper can also be heard as a background singer in the song.

In the music video for the hit single "A Matter Of Trust", Joel distanced himself from his image as a " piano man " because in the clip he played a signed Gibson Les Paul instead of sitting at the piano as usual. In the song "Big Man on Mulberry Street", the musician also deals with his childhood on the streets of the places where he and his family lived.

publication

Although "The Bridge" was able to reach a place in the top 10 of the US album charts, the record could not build on the success of its predecessors. The single releases "A Matter of Trust" and "Modern Woman" each took tenth place on the Billboard charts , and the ballad "This Is the Time" was released as a single and reached 18th place on the single charts.

Track list

  1. Running on Ice - 3:15
  2. This Is the Time - 4:59
  3. A Matter of Trust - 4:09
  4. Modern Woman - 3:48
  5. Baby Grand - 4:02
  6. Big Man on Mulberry Street - 5:26
  7. Temptation - 4:12
  8. Code of Silence - 5:15
  9. Getting Closer - 5:00

Both the music and the lyrics of all tracks, with the exception of "Code of Silence", which the musician wrote together with Cyndi Lauper , come from Billy Joel.

Chart placements

album

The Bridge
AUT: 2 - 26 weeks
CH: 22 - 4 weeks
DE: 34 - 9 wks.
JAP: 2 - 14 wk.
SWE: 25 - 4 weeks
UK: 38-10 weeks
USA: 7 - 47 weeks

Singles

A matter of trust
USA: 10
Modern woman
USA: 10
This is the time
USA: 18

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date
  2. ↑ a b austriancharts.at, chart placements The Bridge
  3. ↑ Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Billy Joel ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )