Billy Joel TURNSTILES

This edition of TURNSTILES is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as a video clip for the track "Prelude/Angry Young Man."Personnel: Billy Joel (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Howie Emerson, Russell Javors (acoustic & electric guitars); James Smith (acoustic guitar); Richie Cannatta (saxophone); Doug Stegmeyer (bass); Liberty DeVito (drums, percussion); Mingo Lewis (percussion).Recorded at Ultra-Sonic Studios, Hempstead, New York.Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).Though it produced no hits, TURNSTILES is an essential Billy Joel album, the one that marked his transition from cultish singer-songwriter to budding pop-rock god--from Dylan wannabe to Dion wannabe, if you will. While Joel's world-weary cynisicm remains in the polysyllabic ballad "Summer, Highlands Falls," he does some real growing up here. "Angry Young Man" (which is introduced by the gymnastic piano workout "Prelude") finds him condemning other youthful cynic