Billy Joel- Glass Houses 45th Anniversary 3-10

It may not seem so risky from this vantage point forty-five years later, but singer/songwriter Billy Joel made a considerable gamble on the stripped-down guitar-bass-drums approach to many of the songs on his March 1980 album, Glass Houses. “There was a lot of pressure to make another The Stranger or Stranger 2  after I did 52nd Street. Frankly, I would have been bored with that,” explains Billy Joel in my classic rock interview.

Timeless songs in the Billy Joel canon from Glass Houses include “You May Be Right”, “Sometimes a Fantasy”, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”, and “All for Leyna”, resulting in his third #1-seller in a row.The Piano Man himself, Billy Joel, is my special guest for the hour on the forty-fifth anniversary of Glass Houses the week of March 10. -Redbeard