It’s his first original song since 2007, which will have its live performance this Sunday when the “Piano Man” author brings it to the Grammy Awards stage.
The renowned American pianist and singer Billy Joel launched the ballad “Turn the Lights Back On”his first original song since 2007, which will have its live performance this Sunday when the author of “Piano Man” took her to the Grammy Awards stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
With production of Freddy Wexler and the contribution of the composers Wayne Hector and Arthur Baconthe single was also written as a kind of reunion with his audience since 2007, when Joel released “All My Life” and “Christmas in Fallujah”the two cuts with which he reappeared since 1993 with “River of Dreams”his latest studio album.
“I’m late, but here I am now, and I’m trying to find the magic that we lost somehow. Maybe I was blind, but now I see you, as we’re lying in the dark. Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on?” he sings in “Turn the Lights Back On” the New York artist to his followers.
In 2019 and in dialogue with the aforementioned specialized publication, Joel had explained that he had “a lot of music that no one has ever heard and that perhaps they never will” if he did not decide to “do something with it”: “The creative process is what is really important to me “, not having albums in the rankings or sales. I’m always learning, and you never stop learning. That’s the good thing about the writing process, that you always learn something new,” added the singer of hits like “Uptown Girl” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
“I’m never going to say never. Maybe an idea will come to me that can become a song. Maybe I’ll write the soundtrack for a movie. Maybe a symphony. I don’t know. Anything is possible,” he had commented in that interview about his possible – and now concrete – return as a composer.
Billy Joel’s musical present
In addition to this new release, Joel will spend the rest of 2024 headlining different shows in baseball stadiums with other artists of his stature, such as Stevie Nicks, Sting and Rod Stewart; while at the end of July he will close the residency that he has held annually at Madison Square Garden for a decade.
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