Timeline Billy Joel: Piano Man

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• 1949 Billy Joel born in the Bronx William Martin Joel Raised in Hicksville, Long Island.
• 1967 Billy Joel joins the Hassles Long Island band Plays keyboards in a local rock band.
• 1971 Billy Joel releases Cold Spring Harbor Debut album Mastered at the wrong speed, making him sound high-pitched.
• 1972 – 1973 Billy Joel plays piano bar as Bill Martin Los Angeles The job that inspires Piano Man.
• 1973 Billy Joel releases Piano Man Signature song The title song becomes his signature.
• 1977 Billy Joel releases The Stranger Just the Way You Are His breakthrough, one of Columbia's best-selling albums.
• 1978 Billy Joel releases 52nd Street First compact disc In 1982 it becomes the first album sold on CD.
• 1980 Billy Joel releases Glass Houses It's Still Rock and Roll to Me A harder rock record — his first number one single.
• 1983 Billy Joel releases An Innocent Man Uptown Girl A tribute to 50s and 60s pop.
• 1987 Billy Joel tours the Soviet Union Moscow and Leningrad One of the first American rock tours of the USSR.
• 1989 Billy Joel releases We Didn't Start the Fire History in a song A list of 118 events from 1949 to 1989 — number one.
• 1993 Billy Joel releases River of Dreams Last pop album His last album of new pop songs.
• 1999 Billy Joel inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Inducted by Ray Charles.
• 2014 Billy Joel starts his Madison Square Garden residency Once a month A monthly residency in New York.
• 2024 Billy Joel plays his 150th residency show End of the residency The final show of a ten-year residency.