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October 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Since its formation on April 20, 1983, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted a slate of accomplished musicians into its ranks on a yearly basis, causing excitement, consternation and everything in between.  Though the worthiness of nominees and inductees is hotly debated with each “class” and a number of distinguished artists continue to be ignored year after year, one thing can be agreed upon: a lot of great music has been played for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  It continues to host

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Prince, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Doors, The Mamas and The Papas, The Righteous Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, U2

September 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The music and lyrics of Billy Joel run deep in the fabric of American popular song: "Sing us a song, you're the piano man."  "I'm in a New York state of mind."  Joel was that rare singer/songwriter whose career took off in the 1970s, with one foot rooted in the Tin Pan Alley tradition and another squarely in rock-and-roll, who continued to soar in the 1980s with indelible videos for the MTV era, among them "Uptown Girl" opposite his soon-to-be-wife Christie Brinkley.  He had proven his

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March 8, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Billy Joel, Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (Columbia/Legacy) The best of the Shea Stadium farewell shows on two CDs and a DVD or Blu-Ray. Not my favorite Joel show, but it's now yours for the buying. (Official site) Neil Diamond, The Bang Years 1966-1968 (Columbia/Legacy) Two Bang LPs (and one non-album single) on a nicely put-together disc - hopefully the first of many deserved tributes to the Solitary Man on the eve of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. (Official site) Simon

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Rainbow, Simon and Garfunkel, Traffic

March 7, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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One of the biggest pitfalls as a music writer is reading something - usually a review - that spells out your thoughts so well that you have no idea where to go with your own piece. Popdose editor-in-chief Jeff Giles did that alarmingly well with his scathing assessment of Billy Joel's Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (Columbia/Legacy 88697 85424-2, 2011), calling it "pungently shitty, the nadir of a relatively distinguished career, and the type of release that justifies the awful music business

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January 25, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Billy Joel floodgates are about to burst open with the release of Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert, an audio scrapbook of the Piano Man's show-stopping concerts at Shea Stadium, the last major events held at the iconic sporting arena before its closure and demolition. Already documented in Last Play at Shea - a multifaceted documentary on the longtime home of the New York Mets and the Long Island-raised rocker who performed there (to be released on DVD next month) - Columbia/Legacy will

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Billy Joel, The Beatles

November 29, 2010 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Start saving your pennies now. In an eye-opening move, audiophile specialty label Mobile Fidelity has announced a massive slate of releases across the CD, SACD and LP formats scheduled for 2011.  Longtime collectors of audiophile masterings may get a thrill at seeing the “Original Master Recording” banner above the works of classic artists ranging from Tony Bennett and Ray Charles to Carole King and James Taylor. While this writer has some quibbles (why no CDs or SACDs for Bennett, Frank

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Categories: News Tags: Billy Joel, Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Band, The Pretenders, Tony Bennett

November 16, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Bruce Springsteen, The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story (Columbia/Legacy) Bruuuuuuuuce celebrates one of his most acclaimed albums in a big way. Darkness will be augmented with two discs' worth of outtakes and three(!) DVDs, including the new making-of documentary The Promise. (The outtakes are available as their own double-disc set as well.) (Official site) Jimi Hendrix, West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology / BBC Sessions / Live at Woodstock / Blues / Merry

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Nelly Furtado, Pink, Smokey Robinson, Supertramp

October 25, 2010 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

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It's no surprise that Legacy's intention to reissue the Billy Joel catalogue in 2011 has been met with a lot of enthusiasm and expectation. For better or worse, Joel has been one of the most intriguing artists in the American rock canon: he found success writing deceptively traditional pop songs in an AOR era, he performed them from behind a piano, he used that talent to springboard a relationship with one of the hottest supermodels in recorded history and - unlike nearly all of his

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Open Forum

October 20, 2010 By Mike Duquette 15 Comments

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It's true: that upcoming Billy Joel compilation is indeed the tip of the iceberg. Legacy issued a press release late last night promising to burst open the floodgates of Billy Joel catalogue material in 2011. The Hits, the first single-disc compilation of the Piano Man's music, kicks things off, followed by a dozen songs being made available for download on the upcoming Rock Band 3 video game. But next year? The press release promises a live release of the Shea Stadium concerts documented in

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October 19, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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It's hard to believe The Second Disc has never done an ongoing round-up of all the reissues, remasters, compilations and box sets. (Perhaps it felt redundant? Everyone does it.) But sometimes there's just so much stuff to consider - especially with the holiday season fast approaching - so it's time to jump on the bandwagon and give you, the treasured reader, a comprehensive list of what's coming out in the catalogue world this week. The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966/ The Beatles 1967-1970

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles

October 10, 2010 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

One might think nothing of MusicTAP's recent listing of The Very Best of Billy Joel as coming from Legacy on November 9. The Long Island native has been compiled a lot - his first, double-sized greatest-hits compilation in 1985, a third volume in 1997, an entry in Legacy's Essential series and so on. Call it a hunch, but this author thinks there might be something to this set. For one, Amazon's list price for the compilation is $9.99, suggesting a single-disc set...and when you think about it,

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September 22, 2010 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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With the fall officially underway, we’re now in the busiest time of the year for the music biz, and as this week hits its halfway point, we’re here to offer a few announcements you might have missed. Audio Fidelity offers on November 2 a 24K Gold CD version of James Taylor’s seminal 1972 album originally released on Warner Bros. Records, One Man Dog. Remastered by audio guru Steve Hoffman, One Man Dog has among its highlights the now-standard “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” One Man Dog joins

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Categories: News Tags: Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder, The Doors, The Guess Who

August 10, 2010 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Some of rock’s finest will be receiving the deluxe treatment from audiophile specialist labels Audio Fidelity and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) in the coming months: The Beach Boys, The Band, Gram Parsons, Deep Purple, Foreigner, The Pretenders and Billy Joel. The earliest release in this bunch is also one of the most exciting. The Beach Boys' Today! was released in 1965 and is generally remembered as one of the first albums on which Brian Wilson displayed the sensitive studio wizardry that

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Categories: News Tags: Billy Joel, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Pretenders

February 23, 2010 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

I've been listening to Pet Sounds a lot lately. Maybe it's the dreary weather; whenever I put on some Beach Boys things feel a bit sunnier. But it's a heck of a record (as I'm sure most of you know) - one of those rarified few that's hard to chop down entirely. It's also fascinating that it's one on a rather short list of pop albums that have supported its own box set. The sprawling The Pet Sounds Sessions, released in 1997, chronicles the process of the album through alternate mixes, outtakes,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Open Forum, Prince, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

February 4, 2010 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

I'm not a betting man, but if I were, I'd bet that there are two big questions that reissue producers and catalogue compilers get from fans. There's "What about a proper reissue/expansion of such-and-such an album?" and "Why did you miss/forget that one track?" I've been thinking about that last query lately - and I'll bet you've thought about it at some point, too. Oh sure, to some of your friends and fellow fans it sounds crazy - why on Earth would someone obsess over one stupid little

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