Greater than 30 years since Billy Joel launched his final pop album, 1993’s River of Goals, he’s placing out a brand new pop single, “Flip the Lights Again On.”
Columbia Information, Joel’s longtime label dwelling, will launch the music on Feb. 1 to all digital service suppliers and on restricted version 7” vinyl. Will probably be accompanied by a lyric video on Joel’s YouTube channel.
Joel, who has scored 33 Prime 40 hits, hinted concerning the new music at his Dec. 19 present as a part of his Madison Sq. Backyard residency, telling the viewers, “I’ve excellent news. I’ve dangerous information. I’ll provide the dangerous information first. We don’t have something new to play for you. The excellent news is you don’t have to sit down by way of one thing you haven’t any thought what it’s. Though we’ve bought somewhat one thing we’ve been engaged on you may hear someday.”
The pop music — which Joel wrote with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector and was produced by Wexler — contains the lyrics, “Did I wait too lengthy … to show the lights again on?” It’s Joel’s first music launched with phrases since 2007’s “All My Life,” a lush, Sinatra-like ballad Joel wrote for his then spouse, Katie Lee, that reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching Singles Gross sales chart.
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No phrase on if “Flip the Lights Again On” is a one-off or a precursor to extra materials, however Joel has been open about his hesitation to return to his pop heyday, making the brand new music all of the extra welcome. “I’m not ruling out the opportunity of writing songs once more,” Joel instructed Billboard in 2007, a number of months after “All My Life’s” launch. “I suppose if I had the motivation to jot down a music, I’m not gonna cease myself from doing it. I simply haven’t felt the compulsion to jot down songs in pop type. I suppose as of late I simply consider myself as a composer.”
Extra lately, Joel instructed the New Yorker of his determination to cease recording, “Some individuals assume it’s as a result of I’m lazy or I’m simply being opposite … However, no, I believe it’s simply — I’ve had my say … I’m not loopy about going right into a recording studio and doing that type of life once more, or taking over one other venture the place there’s different individuals concerned, arrangers and orchestrators and conductors and producers. I don’t need to cope with it.”
The six-time Grammy winner’s final studio album was a group of his classical anthems, Fantasies & Delusions, launched on Sony Classical, in 2001.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee is on the tail finish of his record-breaking 10-year residency at Madison Sq. Backyard. Joel has performed the historic New York Metropolis area as soon as a month since January 2014, and can wrap along with his a hundred and fiftieth present in July. He continues to tour outdoors of the residency, together with a sold-out stadium present in Tokyo on Thursday (Jan. 25).
