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Billy Joel - The Bridge


Billy Joel
The Bridge

   

On The Bridge, his first LP of new material in three years, Billy Joel gracefully rounds off the latest – and richest – phase of his tempestuous career. The album essentially forms a trilogy with 1982's outward-looking The Nylon Curtain and 1983's backward-looking An Innocent Man, offering a modest yet moving portrait of a mature man battling the urban strains of the Eighties in search of both a separate peace and a sense of connection.

It's tempting to read the new-found comfort Joel displays on The Bridge in personal terms – this is, after all, his first album since his marriage to Christie Brinkley and the birth of their child. His defensive
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cockiness has softened into a much more appealing confidence, and he's abandoned the ambitious concepts he's relied on to unify past LPs.

The danger of a biographical reading of The Bridge, however, is that Joel has historically been the least self-revealing of songwriters – a fact that's caused him no end of problems with critics. Whereas most literate rock & roll trades on the romantic illusion of an artist sharing his deepest inner feelings with an audience of sympathetic souls, Joel has always defiantly – and sometimes arrogantly – kept his distance. His theatrical flair, fondness for classic song structure and penchant for styling his vocals to suit the characters he sings about all have roots in a tradition that stretches beyond rock & roll to the formal artifice of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. Where the masks leave off and the man begins is probably no easier for Joel himself to determine than it is for his listeners.

As he did on his 1977 LP The Stranger, Joel makes this dramatic tension part of The Bridge. "You swore to yourself a long time ago/There were some things that people never needed to know," Joel sings on the edgy "Code of Silence," the last song he wrote for The Bridge. As Cyndi Lauper – who earned the first co-writing credit in Joel's career for helping him through the composer's block that gripped him when he started to write the tune – wails in and out of the vocal harmony, Joel wonders, "Isn't that a kind of madness/To be living by a code of silence/When you've really got a lot to say?" The message of emotional liberation in "Code of Silence" echoes the theme of the grinding guitar rocker "A Matter of Trust," where Joel posits the virtue of trust as preventive medicine for the sort of love that "is just a lie of the soul/A constant battle for the ultimate state of control."

A steady movement from polished rockers to full-blooded ballads sets the musical rhythm of The Bridge, while the lyric concerns of the LP fluctuate between the lust for control and the simultaneous desire to give it up and gain the sustaining warmth of love. In the elegant ballad "Temptation," the singer weighs the demands of "business" and the opinions of friends ("They're afraid

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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
CD   $9.42   Action
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Running On Ice/this Is The Time/a Matter Of Trust/modern Woman/baby Grand/big Man On Mulberry Str...
M- M- CD   $22.74   Vinyl Soluti
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
509974911922 record ed: 1986 Cdx1 Edition: 1986 The Bridge Barcode: 509974911922 Special Order
CD   $19.15   CDExpress
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Columbia, 5099749119222 Special Order
NEW CD   $25.71   Inandout Dis
Austria   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
EX/EX CD   $55.93   F-seventies
France     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Picture/lyrics Sleeve Has A Little Poke Through By The Record On The Sides, Cover Is Intact And I...
Ex LP   $2.99   Alfred Carte
USA     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
S feel Free To E-mail With Any Questions Usa, Columbia, Al 40402, 1986
Vg+/vg+ LP   $2.99   MyMusicMesse
USA     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Columbia,40402,1986, "baby Grand"
M- M- LP   $3.45   Brothers
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Discos Cbs Rec.. Brazil
m- LP   $4.40   jpdiscosound
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Played Once Then Stored. Still In Shrinkwrap With Original Innersleeve. Comes With Bonus Cd Recor...
M/M LP   $4.99   Rock & Roll
USA     
Billy Joel - The Bridge   Billy Joel   The Bridge
, Published: 1986 Picture Cover, Album, Includes Running On Ice, This Is The Time, A Matter Of ...
C:NM,M:NM LP   $5.34   recordsale
Germany   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
4655611
Ex/Ex LP   $5.82   Al's Tracks
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs, 1986
VG LP   $6.60   Wild Bill's
USA     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs86323, 9 Track Gd/gd, 1986
LP   $6.98   Shop4Vinyl
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Uk Cbs,orig Inner Sl
EX/EX LP   $8.00   skeleton
UK     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Running On Ice/this Is The Time/a Matter Of Trust/modern Woman/baby Grand/big Man On Mulberry Str...
VG Ex LP   $12.06   Vinyl Soluti
Austral   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Us, Columbia, 40402, 1986
Great LP   $8.99   Electronicch
USA     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Artist: Billy Joelalbum: The Bridgecatalog Number: C 40402vinyl Conditi Usa
VG++ LP   $9.00   Shuga
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Brazil, Cbs, 138688, 86
ex- LP   $9.00   Faunus
Brasil   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs Inc., 1986
LP   $11.63   VinylUK
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Inner, Shrink Columbia, 40402
M- LP   $10.00   Craig Moerer
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
9 Trk Ps Uk, Cbs86323
EX EX LP   $8.31   circular sou
UK   
The Bridge - Billy Joel   Billy Joel   The Bridge
Orig s Columbia Oc40402, 1986
NM- M- LP   $11.50   Earth Wave
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Brazil, Cbs, 138688, 86
VG+ VG+ LP   $11.50   sebo do disc
Brasil   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
In Stock!!! import Eu out Of Print new & Factory Sealed!!! Holland, Cbs Records, 1986
New & Fact LP   $13.36   Blasters Rec
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge
+ Lyrics Uk Or As Shown, (cbs 86323)
M/M LP   $14.95   Rock Revelat
UK     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs 86323
LP   $18.28   DAVID SHOBEN
UK     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
72211 lp/ Cond. Record/sleeve: Nm-/m- Stereo Orig Black Label: Columbia Oc40402 Special Order
LP   $29.54   CDExpress
Netherl   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Wl Promo Only W.sticker Title Cover & Insert Xdap93148 Jpn
NM/NM LP   $43.42   Vicious Slot
Austral   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs Oct40402, 10 Trk Lyric Ins, 1986
Cassette   $3.16   Shop4Vinyl
UK     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Code Of Silence/modern Woman/running On Ice/this Is The Time/a Matter Of Trust/baby Grand/big Man...
VG VG Cassette   $7.51   Vinyl Soluti
Austral   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Audio Cassette Tape In Excellent Condition track Listing: 1. Running On Ice 2. This Is The ...
Very Good Cassette   $11.88   Acres of
USA     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Recs Cbs, Cbs 86323, 1986
12"   $8.31   salter
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Cbs. 1986. Cbs86323. Ex/nm.
12"   $19.94   VinylUK
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge
Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order
New LP+CDR   $51.98   Vinyl Revolu
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge (remaster [ecd])
Like New CD   $7.97   SSM Music
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge - Cbs
VG+/VG+ LP   $128.00   Recsim
France     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge - Lp
With Inner Cbs Records, 86323
LP   $4.98   Replay Music
UK     
Billy Joel - The Bridge - Sealed   Billy Joel   The Bridge - Sealed
Columbia
sealed CD   $6.47   Demon's Disk
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge Enhanced
Uk
EX/EX CD   $13.86   Ear of the
UK   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge Tour-special Oversize Program 20 Pages
Us
Memorabilia   $21.60   Music and
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    Billy Joel   The Bridge [enhanced]
Year: 2008; Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
New CD   $12.00   SSM Music
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge [enhanced] [import] [original Recording Remastered]
Year: 2004; Label: Sony Mid-price
New CD   $28.93   SSM Music
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge [enhanced] [original Recording Reissued] [original Recording Remastered]
Year: 1998; Label: Columbia Records/cbs; tracks: 1. Running On Ice; 2. This Is The Time; 3. A Ma...
Good CD   $9.46   SSM Music
USA   
    Billy Joel   The Bridge*
Cbs, Cbs86323, 1986
EX LP   $6.63   Good Vibrati
UK     
    Billy Joel   The Bridge-glass Houses
509974652202 record ed: 1990 Cdx2 Edition: 1990 The Bridge-glass Houses Barcode: 509974652202 Special Order
CD   $63.67   CDExpress
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    Billy Joel (artist)   The Bridge
Like New CD   $10.27   SSM Music
USA   
    Billy Joel -brazil Lp-   The Bridge - 1986 Brazil 9-track Lp - Tracklisting In Spanish + Sticker On Cover - Cbs 138 688
VG+/VG+ LP   $128.00   Recsim
France     
    Joel Billy   The Bridge
N/a Cbs, Cdcbs86323, 1986
Ex/Ex CD   $9.97   Kellys
UK   
Joel Billy - The Bridge Album   Joel Billy   The Bridge
Standard 5099749119222, 1998
NEW CD   $17.71   Inandout Dis
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    Joel Billy   The Bridge
Col 40402 n-
LP   $12.00   Record Finde
USA   
    Joel Billy   The Bridge
Uk Cbs Cbs86323 Full Classic Vinyl Album 1986
EX/M LP   $13.95   CDandVinyl
UK   
    Joel Billy   The Bridge
200002478 lp Condition: Vg++ Title: The Bridge Special Order
LP   $16.18   CDExpress
Netherl   
Joel Billy - The Bridge Record   Joel Billy   The Bridge
Standard Nl, Cbs, 5099708632311, 1986
USED LP   $18.05   Inandout Dis
Austria   
Joel Billy - The Bridge LP   Joel Billy   The Bridge
Uk Cbs 4086323 Cassette Album 9 Tracks 1986
M/M Cassette   $9.95   CDandVinyl
UK   
    Joel Billy   The Bridge Demo
Uk Cbs Cbs86323 Rare Gold Embossed Stamped Demo - Full Lp 1986
M/M LP   $28.95   CDandVinyl
UK   
    Joel Billy   The Bridge-ss S
Col 40402 m
LP   $12.00   Record Finde
USA   
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
Pop ~ 1986 ~ ~ Guaranteed To Play But Not Pretty, Has Many Visible Light Marks On Disc. Cbs
EX/FAIR CD   $4.07   More Music
UK   
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
Vg Columbia, 074644040227
CD AND CAS CD   $4.60   One Stop
USA     
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
Us Release, Columbia, T6, 1986
Used CD   $4.79   HardToFindCD
USA     
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
Domestic Cd In A Standard Cd Case - Ck 40402, Copyright 1986
VG CD   $6.03   VS Music
USA     
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...
used/gebra CD   $6.66   Total Recall
Germany   
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
1986
CD   $8.16   Bluesite
Germany   
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
1 rock Canada, Columbia, Ck 40402
VG+\VG CD   $9.00   Beatnick
Canada     
    Joel, billy   The Bridge
Original Item, Check <a Href='http://www.fonopress.com/pr oduct_info.php?produ cts_id=29055&... Special Order
NEW/NEW CD   $12.00   Polish Music
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