Turnstiles

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Turnstiles
Studio album by Billy Joel

Publication
(s)

May 1976

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

8th

running time

34:18

occupation

production

Billy Joel

Studio (s)

Ultra Sonic Studio, Hempstead , New York

chronology
Streetlife Serenade
(1974) 		Turnstiles The Stranger
(1977)

Turnstiles is the fourth studio album by the American musician Billy Joel . It was released in May 1976 and is the first record that Joel produced again in his hometown of New York after spending several years in California .

Emergence

The album largely celebrates Billy Joel's return to New York City, with the tracks Summer, Highland Falls , New York State of Mind and Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) referring directly to the cosmopolitan city. However, while New York State of Mind is a hymn to Joel's home, Miami 2017 describes a future vision of a destroyed New York in 2017, whereby the musician does not explicitly name the reasons and only provides hints in the form of bankruptcy , corruption and Mafia deals . Say Goodbye to Hollywood forms the beginning of the album , which also creates a direct reference to the change of location. I've Loved These Days also describes in an ironic way the artist's “regret” for having to leave the decadence of Hollywood behind.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Turnstiles
  US 122 07/04/1976 (12 weeks)
  1. Say Goodbye to Hollywood - 4:36
  2. Summer, Highland Falls - 3:15
  3. All You Wanna Do Is Dance - 3:40
  4. New York State of Mind - 5:58
  5. James - 3:53
  6. Prelude / Angry Young Man - 3:55
  7. I've Loved These Days - 4:31
  8. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) - 5:12

Both the music and the lyrics of all tracks were written by Billy Joel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts US