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      • Say Goodbye to Hollywood
      • Summer, Highland Falls >
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      • All You Wanna Do Is Dance
      • New York State of Mind >
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      • James
      • Prelude/Angry Young Man
      • I've Loved These Days
      • Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) >
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    • The Stranger (1977) >
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      • Movin' Out
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      • Just The Way You Are
      • Scenes From An Italian Restaurant >
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      • Vienna >
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      • Only The Good Die Young
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      • Get It Right The First Time
      • Everybody Has A Dream
    • 52nd Street (1978) >
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      • Big Shot
      • Honesty
      • My Life
      • Zanzibar
      • Stiletto
      • Rosalinda's Eyes
      • Half A Mile Away
      • Until The Night
      • 52nd Street
    • Glass Houses (1980) >
      • Album Page - Glass Houses
      • You May Be Right
      • Sometimes A Fantasy
      • Don't Ask Me Why
      • It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
      • All For Leyna
      • I Don't Want To Be Alone (Anymore)
      • Sleeping With The Television On
      • C'etait Toi (You Were The One)
      • Close to the Borderline
      • Through the Long Night
    • The Nylon Curtain (1982) >
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      • Allentown
      • Laura
      • Pressure
      • Goodnight Saigon
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      • A Room of Our Own
      • Surprises
      • Scandinavian Skies
      • Where's The Orchestra
    • An Innocent Man (1983) >
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      • The Longest Time >
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      • This Night
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        • Making of Tell Her About It Video
      • Uptown Girl
      • Careless Talk
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      • Leave A Tender Moment Alone >
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      • Keeping The Faith
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      • Running On Ice
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      • That's Not Her Style
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      • I Go To Extremes
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      • State of Grace
      • When In Rome
      • And So It Goes
    • River of Dreams (1993) >
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      • No Man's Land
      • The Great Wall of China
      • Blonde Over Blue
      • A Minor Variation
      • Shades of Grey
      • All About Soul
      • Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
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    • Fantasies & Delusions (2001)
    • All My Life (2007) (single)
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      • Falling Of The Rain (Live) (1972)
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      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (live) (1972)
      • She's Got A Way (live) (1972)
      • Everybody Loves You Now (live) (1972)
      • Nocturne (live) (1972)
      • Turn Around (live) (1972)
      • Long, Long Time (live) (1972)
      • Captain Jack (live) (1972)
      • Josephine (live) (1972)
      • Rosalinda (live) (1972)
      • Tomorrow Is Today (live) (1972)
    • Live At The Great American Music Hall (1975)
    • Live At Carnegie Hall (1977)
    • Songs In The Attic (1981) >
      • Album Page - Songs In The Attic (1981)
      • Miami 2017 (live) (1981)
      • Summer, Highland Falls (live) (1981)
      • Streetlife Serenader (live) (1981)
      • Los Angelenos (live) (1981)
      • She's Got A Way (live) (1981)
      • Everybody Loves You Now (live) (1981)
      • Say Goodbye To Hollywood (live) (1981)
      • Captain Jack (live) (1981)
      • You're My Home (live) (1981)
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (live) (1981)
      • I've Loved These Days (live) (1981)
    • Live from Long Island (1982)
    • KOHUEPT (1987) >
      • Album Page - Kohuept (1987)
    • Live at Yankee Stadium (1990)
    • Live from The River of Dreams (1993-1994)
    • 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert (2000)
    • 12 Gardens Live (2006)
    • Live At Shea Stadium (2011)
    • A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia (2014) >
      • Album Page - A Matter of Trust (2014)
      • Prelude/Angry Young Man (Live-Russia)
      • Honesty (Live-Russia)
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (Live-Russia)
      • She's Always A Woman (Live-Russia)
      • Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Live-Russia)
      • Goodnight Saigon (Live-Russia) - Billy Joel
      • Stiletto (Live-Russia)
      • Big Man On Mulberry Street (Live-Russia)
      • Baby Grand (Live-Russia)
      • What's Your Name (Live-Russia)
      • The Longest Time (Live-Russia)
      • An Innocent Man (Live-Russia)
      • Pressure (Live-Russia)
      • A Matter of Trust (Live-Russia)
      • It's Still Rock and Roll To Me (Live-Russia)
      • Sometimes A Fantasy (Live-Russia)
      • You May Be Right (Live-Russia)
      • Uptown Girl (Live-Russia)
      • Back In the USSR (Live-Russia)
      • The Times They Are A Changin' (Live-Russia)
      • New York State of Mind (Live-Russia)
    • Live in Miami (2017) (fictional)
    • Live Through The Years (2019)
  • COMPILATIONS & SPECIAL EDITIONS
    • Souvenir (1977)
    • Greatest Hits, I & II (1985) >
      • You're Only Human (Second Wind) - Billy Joel
      • The Night Is Still Young
    • Greatest Hits, III (1997) >
      • To Make You Feel My Love
      • Hey Girl
      • Light As The Breeze
    • The Complete Hits (1997)
    • The Essential Billy Joel (2001)
    • Movin' Out (2002)
    • My Lives (2005) >
      • My Journey's End
      • You've Got Me Hummin'
      • Only A Man
      • Oyster Bay
      • The Siegfried Line
      • New Mexico
      • Cross to Bear
      • Miami 2017 (demo version)
      • These Rhinestone Days
      • Only The Good Die Young (alternate version)
      • The End of the World
      • The Prime of Your Life
      • Elvis Presley Boulevard
      • Nobody Knows But Me
      • Christie Lee (demo)
      • I'll Cry Instead
      • House of Blue Light
      • Money or Love
      • The Times They Are A Changin'
      • Shout
      • All Shook Up
      • Heartbreak Hotel
      • When You Wish Upon A Star
      • In A Sentimental Mood
      • Motorcycle Song
      • You Picked A Real Bad Time
      • A Hard Day's Night
      • Why Should I Worry
      • Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)?
      • Highway 61 Revisited
      • Don't Worry Baby
      • Elegy: The Great Peconic
      • So Long Reverend Ike
    • The Stranger - Legacy (2008)
    • The Hits (2010)
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    • Cold Spring Harbor (1971) >
      • Album Page - Cold Spring Harbor
      • She's Got A Way
      • You Can Make Me Free
      • Everybody Loves You Now
      • Why Judy Why
      • Falling Of The Rain
      • Turn Around
      • You Look So Good To Me
      • Tomorrow Is Today
      • Nocturne
      • Got To Begin Again
    • Piano Man (1973) >
      • Album Page - Piano Man
      • Travelin' Prayer
      • Piano Man >
        • Piano Man - Videos Page
      • Ain't No Crime
      • You're My Home
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid
      • Worse Comes To Worst
      • Stop In Nevada
      • If I Only Had The Words (To Tell You)
      • Somewhere Along The Line
      • Captain Jack
    • Streetlife Serenade (1974) >
      • Album Page - Streetlife Serenade
      • Streetlife Serenader
      • Los Angelenos
      • The Great Suburban Showdown
      • Root Beer Rag
      • Roberta
      • The Entertainer
      • Last of the Big Time Spenders
      • Weekend Song
      • Souvenir
      • The Mexican Connection
    • Turnstiles (1976) >
      • Album Page - Turnstiles
      • Say Goodbye to Hollywood
      • Summer, Highland Falls >
        • Summer, Highland Falls - Videos Page
      • All You Wanna Do Is Dance
      • New York State of Mind >
        • New York State of Mind - Videos Page
      • James
      • Prelude/Angry Young Man
      • I've Loved These Days
      • Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) >
        • Miami 2017 - Videos Page
    • The Stranger (1977) >
      • Album Page - The Stranger
      • Movin' Out
      • The Stranger
      • Just The Way You Are
      • Scenes From An Italian Restaurant >
        • Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Videos Page
      • Vienna >
        • Vienna - Videos Page
      • Only The Good Die Young
      • She's Always A Woman
      • Get It Right The First Time
      • Everybody Has A Dream
    • 52nd Street (1978) >
      • Album Page - 52nd Street
      • Big Shot
      • Honesty
      • My Life
      • Zanzibar
      • Stiletto
      • Rosalinda's Eyes
      • Half A Mile Away
      • Until The Night
      • 52nd Street
    • Glass Houses (1980) >
      • Album Page - Glass Houses
      • You May Be Right
      • Sometimes A Fantasy
      • Don't Ask Me Why
      • It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
      • All For Leyna
      • I Don't Want To Be Alone (Anymore)
      • Sleeping With The Television On
      • C'etait Toi (You Were The One)
      • Close to the Borderline
      • Through the Long Night
    • The Nylon Curtain (1982) >
      • Album Page - The Nylon Curtain
      • Allentown
      • Laura
      • Pressure
      • Goodnight Saigon
      • She's Right On Time
      • A Room of Our Own
      • Surprises
      • Scandinavian Skies
      • Where's The Orchestra
    • An Innocent Man (1983) >
      • Album Page - An Innocent Man
      • Easy Money
      • An Innocent Man
      • The Longest Time >
        • The Longest Time - Videos
      • This Night
      • Tell Her About It >
        • Making of Tell Her About It Video
      • Uptown Girl
      • Careless Talk
      • Christie Lee
      • Leave A Tender Moment Alone >
        • Leave A Tender Moment Alone - Videos
      • Keeping The Faith
    • The Bridge (1986) >
      • Album Page - The Bridge
      • Running On Ice
      • This Is The Time
      • A Matter of Trust
      • Modern Woman
      • Baby Grand
      • Temptation
      • Big Man On Mulberry Street
      • Code of Silence
      • Getting Closer
    • Storm Front (1989) >
      • Album Page - Storm Front
      • That's Not Her Style
      • We Didn't Start The Fire >
        • We Didn't Start The Fire - Videos Page
      • The Downeaster 'Alexa' >
        • The Downeaster 'Alexa' - Videos Page
      • I Go To Extremes
      • Shameless
      • Storm Front
      • Leningrad
      • State of Grace
      • When In Rome
      • And So It Goes
    • River of Dreams (1993) >
      • Album Page - River of Dreams
      • No Man's Land
      • The Great Wall of China
      • Blonde Over Blue
      • A Minor Variation
      • Shades of Grey
      • All About Soul
      • Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
      • The River of Dreams
      • Two Thousand Years
      • Famous Last Words
    • Fantasies & Delusions (2001)
    • All My Life (2007) (single)
  • LIVE ALBUMS
    • Live on WMMR Sigma Sound Studios (1972) >
      • Falling Of The Rain (Live) (1972)
      • Travelin' Prayer (live) (1972)
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (live) (1972)
      • She's Got A Way (live) (1972)
      • Everybody Loves You Now (live) (1972)
      • Nocturne (live) (1972)
      • Turn Around (live) (1972)
      • Long, Long Time (live) (1972)
      • Captain Jack (live) (1972)
      • Josephine (live) (1972)
      • Rosalinda (live) (1972)
      • Tomorrow Is Today (live) (1972)
    • Live At The Great American Music Hall (1975)
    • Live At Carnegie Hall (1977)
    • Songs In The Attic (1981) >
      • Album Page - Songs In The Attic (1981)
      • Miami 2017 (live) (1981)
      • Summer, Highland Falls (live) (1981)
      • Streetlife Serenader (live) (1981)
      • Los Angelenos (live) (1981)
      • She's Got A Way (live) (1981)
      • Everybody Loves You Now (live) (1981)
      • Say Goodbye To Hollywood (live) (1981)
      • Captain Jack (live) (1981)
      • You're My Home (live) (1981)
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (live) (1981)
      • I've Loved These Days (live) (1981)
    • Live from Long Island (1982)
    • KOHUEPT (1987) >
      • Album Page - Kohuept (1987)
    • Live at Yankee Stadium (1990)
    • Live from The River of Dreams (1993-1994)
    • 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert (2000)
    • 12 Gardens Live (2006)
    • Live At Shea Stadium (2011)
    • A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia (2014) >
      • Album Page - A Matter of Trust (2014)
      • Prelude/Angry Young Man (Live-Russia)
      • Honesty (Live-Russia)
      • The Ballad of Billy The Kid (Live-Russia)
      • She's Always A Woman (Live-Russia)
      • Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Live-Russia)
      • Goodnight Saigon (Live-Russia) - Billy Joel
      • Stiletto (Live-Russia)
      • Big Man On Mulberry Street (Live-Russia)
      • Baby Grand (Live-Russia)
      • What's Your Name (Live-Russia)
      • The Longest Time (Live-Russia)
      • An Innocent Man (Live-Russia)
      • Pressure (Live-Russia)
      • A Matter of Trust (Live-Russia)
      • It's Still Rock and Roll To Me (Live-Russia)
      • Sometimes A Fantasy (Live-Russia)
      • You May Be Right (Live-Russia)
      • Uptown Girl (Live-Russia)
      • Back In the USSR (Live-Russia)
      • The Times They Are A Changin' (Live-Russia)
      • New York State of Mind (Live-Russia)
    • Live in Miami (2017) (fictional)
    • Live Through The Years (2019)
  • COMPILATIONS & SPECIAL EDITIONS
    • Souvenir (1977)
    • Greatest Hits, I & II (1985) >
      • You're Only Human (Second Wind) - Billy Joel
      • The Night Is Still Young
    • Greatest Hits, III (1997) >
      • To Make You Feel My Love
      • Hey Girl
      • Light As The Breeze
    • The Complete Hits (1997)
    • The Essential Billy Joel (2001)
    • Movin' Out (2002)
    • My Lives (2005) >
      • My Journey's End
      • You've Got Me Hummin'
      • Only A Man
      • Oyster Bay
      • The Siegfried Line
      • New Mexico
      • Cross to Bear
      • Miami 2017 (demo version)
      • These Rhinestone Days
      • Only The Good Die Young (alternate version)
      • The End of the World
      • The Prime of Your Life
      • Elvis Presley Boulevard
      • Nobody Knows But Me
      • Christie Lee (demo)
      • I'll Cry Instead
      • House of Blue Light
      • Money or Love
      • The Times They Are A Changin'
      • Shout
      • All Shook Up
      • Heartbreak Hotel
      • When You Wish Upon A Star
      • In A Sentimental Mood
      • Motorcycle Song
      • You Picked A Real Bad Time
      • A Hard Day's Night
      • Why Should I Worry
      • Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)?
      • Highway 61 Revisited
      • Don't Worry Baby
      • Elegy: The Great Peconic
      • So Long Reverend Ike
    • The Stranger - Legacy (2008)
    • The Hits (2010)
    • Piano Man - Legacy (2011)
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       The Nylon Curtain is widely considered to be Billy Joel's most ambitious and cmplex album.  By 1982, Billy had turned 33 and despite his career success, life had dealt him some setbacks.  He had been in a serious motorcycle accident and his marriage to Elizabeth was about to end.  Billy was at a crossroads in his life as was the entire country in the early Eighties.  In The Nylon Curtain, Billy reflects not only on  his life as a man in his thirties, but also on the state of America.  In songs like "Allentown," "Pressure," and "Goodnight Saigon," Billy addresses key social and political issues of his generation, the Baby Boomers.  And in "Laura," "A Room of Our Own" and "She's Right On Time," Billy provides a nuanced look at adult relationships in the modern age.

     As Billy told Ultimate Classic Rock in 2022: "That was right in the middle of the Reagan era, and things were changing in America," I was very aware of it. It was baby-boomer peaking time, the early '80s. Things did change then. I was very proud of that album. The songs seem to still resonate with audiences and with younger people as well." 
      Billy explained, "I think people my age - the post World War II babies - are thinking the same things: Whatever happened to the horn of plenty, the limitless horizons? Where's the clean air? Where's the clean water? Where is everything? Halfway through the album, I said, 'What am I doing here? I've got a song about Allentown, a song about Vietnam ... I suppose this is my stab at the great American novel."

       In addition to its broader themes, The Nylon Curtain was also was more musically complex and rich.  The album contains some of the most layered and intricate sounds of any of Billy's work, from the John Lennon-like vocals of "Laura" to the ethereal yet jarring "Scandinavian Skies."  The sounds of The Nylon Curtain were influenced by The Beatles, particularly The Beatles' albums from the mid to late 1960s.   Billy said that he wanted The Nylon Curtain to be an "FM album," one that you can listen to over and over again and find new things each time as Billy had done with The Beatles' later albums.​   

​     Producer Phil Ramone wrote in his memoir, Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, "The time for a departure from Billy's past work seemed right. . . .  I saw Billy's suggestion as an opportunity to make a credible avant-garde statement."  As stated in 
Ultimate Classic Rock they "employed a variety of sound effects - helicopter sounds for 'Goodnight Saigon,' industrial clangor for 'Allentown' and airport ambience in 'Scandinavian Skies.'  Our palette was vast," Ramone wrote, "we broke our own mold with The Nylon Curtain. It was our form of musical expressionism, and the closest we came to approaching a concept album."  

        The highlight of the album may be the little-known "Where's The Orchestra?" which operates as a philosophical metaphor about life.   If all the world is a stage, then "wasn't this supposed to be a musical?"  Whereas Billy asked a similar question about suburban angst several years ago in "Movin' Out" ("is that all you get for your money?"), here he now asks a deeper and broader question about life and adulthood.  Where, indeed, is the orchestra? 

        The name of the album, The Nylon Curtain, was a play on the term "The Iron Curtain" which referred to the former Soviet Union.   While America is not the "iron" curtain, there is still a barrier here, there are obstacles to our dreams and desires, both as individuals and as a broader society.  It is a theme Billy explored earlier, most notably in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," but here it is central to most of The Nylon Curtain.  While The Nylon Curtain was not the mega-seller that some of Billy's earlier and later albums were, and while it may be his least accessible work, it is a considerable achievement on all fronts:  musically, lyrically, and thematically.
        And after the closing lines
        And after the curtain calls
        The curtain falls
        On empty chairs
        Where's the orchestra?


                         – From "Where's The Orchestra?"
      Billy and his band went on a worldwide tour to promote The Nylon Curtain.  A concert in late 1982 at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum was recorded and released on video (VHS) as Live from Long Island.  This is probably his best recorded concert that was an official release, and was the first since 1976's Billy Joel Tonight.   The video was later released on VHS and laserdisc, but not on DVD much to the chagrin of Billy Joel fans.  A YouTube playlist can be viewed here or at the Video & Audio tab, above.
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      Listen to an audio interview (WIOQ) by DJ Ed Sciaky with Billy Joel from 1982 about The Nylon Curtain; click on the play button below  or you can listen to it on YouTube).  Sciaky had helped popularize Billy Joel in the Philadelphia area back in the early 1970s by playing a live version of "Captain Jack" on WMMR radio before it was officially released on Piano Man.  

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      Lennon's death in late 1980 was still weighing on Billy's mind and art, see here.  ​ From a SiriusXM snippet on Soundcloud (no longer available), apparently both Billy Joel and John Lennon had wanted to meet each other when they both lived on Long Island's North Shore.   Billy later discovered from a mutual acquaintance that Lennon "used to row his boat by my house , my house was right on the water, and he said . . 'I'd like to go say hi to Billy Joel but I don't want to bother him.'  And the funny thing is I used to drive my boat by his house" and thought the same thing.   "I wish he had just stopped and knocked on the door.  It would have been nice.  It would have been a nice thing."   A similar interview snippet about this can be heard below (see player. below; full interview available for license from DennySomach.com). 

     After recording The Nylon Curtain, Billy said, “I had never realized how much John Lennon had meant to me, how much he and Paul [McCartney] were the irreplaceable sweet and sour,” as quoted in Fred Schruers' Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography.  “It was only later that I realized I was channeling John in a lot of the vocals on that album."  See related article.
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Columbia Records publicity photo from The Nylon Curtain songbook (1982)
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Promotional poster for The Nylon Curtain.  I had this poster years ago on my bedroom wall.
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​The Nylon Curtain inside sleeve cover.  Well we're living here in Levittown.
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Billy in concert from 1982.
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The Nylon Curtain tour book cover.  Billy wore that red jacket during much of the Glass Houses tour (1980).
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John Lennon's New York City t-shirt on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2009).  Photo: Timothy Clary.  Original photo: Bob Gruen.

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"There's comfort in my coffee cup"

Songs

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1.   Allentown (3:52)
2.   Laura (5:05)
3.   Pressure (4:40)
4.   Goodnight Saigon (7:04)
5.   She's Right On Time (4:14)
6.   A Room Of Our Own (4:04)
7.   Surprises (3:26)
8.   Scandinavian Skies (6:00)
9.   Where's The Orchestra? 
(3:17)

Words and Music by Billy Joel
Released September 23, 1982
 
Allentown
Laura
Pressure
Goodnight Saigon
Allentown
Laura
Pressure
Goodnight Saigon
She's Right On Time
A Room Of Our Own
Surprises
Scandinavian Skies
Where's The Orchestra
She's Right On Time
A Room of Our Own
Surprises
Scandinavian Skies
Where's The Orchestra?

Covers for "Laura," "A Room of Our Own," "Surprises," "Scandinavian Skies" and "Where's The Orchestra?" are fictional.  "Surprises" photo from VinylGif.  "Scandinavian Skies" photo from YouTube video by user Thelatepetercook.

Spotify
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Video Album


Click on song title to go to song page.
1.   Allentown (3:52)
2.   Laura (5:05)
3.   Pressure (4:40)
4.   Goodnight Saigon (7:04)

​5.   She's Right On Time (4:14) 
6.   A Room Of Our Own (4:04) 
7.   Surprises (3:26)
8.   Scandinavian Skies (6:00)
9.   Where's The Orchestra? 
(3:17)


Stream

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YouTube and Others

Interviews
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​Various Interviews.  This playlist contains a series of video and audio recordings in which Billy discusses The Nylon Curtain, or are interviews from the time when the album was released.  Thanks to Pianoluvr2006 for posting much of this on YouTube.

​MTV Night School with Billy Joel.  Billy appeared on MTV's Night School in 1983, one of his first Q&A sessions.  Billy is humorous and very gracious in answering questions from the audience.  This was apparently filmed at The New School in Manhattan.

Live Performances

Live from Long Island (1982).  This is one of the better Billy Joel concerts, filmed at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum on December 29, 1982.  It was broadcast on HBO, and later released on video.  There are multiple versions here, including a shorter version from Japan television.  The last song in the playlist, Auld Lang Syne, is from December 31 at the same venue.   

An audio playlist of the complete concert is on YouTube as well.  It has been put together from various sources.  The first clip is the full concert, audio only, posted by Activer Music.

Read a review of the HBO concert special from The New York Times in 1983.
​​AllMusic
Cosmic American blog
Critical Playground blog
People Magazine (1982)
PopDose
​PopMatters
Rolling Stone
The New York Times (1982)

Ultimate Classic Rock​
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"On The Nylon Curtain. "Goodnight Saigon" and "Allentown" find Joel tackling subjects farther from home and larger than his own neighborhood, and they bring out the painterly side of him that has always identified with that master of American light, Edward Hopper."            
      Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone (October 14, 1982)
"It tends to get lost in discussions of Billy Joel‘s most popular works, but The Nylon Curtain, which was released on Sept. 23, 1982, is his underrated masterpiece. . . . Musically, the album shows Joel paying tribute to late-period Beatles. His vocal phrasing on “Laura” alternates between John Lennon in the verse and Paul McCartney in the chorus and bridge, as if he was recording his own version of  “I’ve Got a Feeling.” Meanwhile, the bluesy piano on “A Room of Our Own” gives a nod to Abbey Road and the cello in “Scandinavian Skies” echoes “I Am the Walrus.”
David Lifton, Ultimate Classic Rock (September 23, 2015)

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Copy of print ad available for purchase on eBay by Bats!
Track List
Click on song title to go to song page.
1.     Allentown (3:52)
2.   Laura (5:05)
3.   Pressure (4:40)
4.   Goodnight Saigon (7:04)
5.   She's Right On Time (4:14)
6.   A Room Of Our Own (4:04)
7.   Surprises (3:26)
8.   Scandinavian Skies (6:00)
9.   Where's The Orchestra? 
(3:17)
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​Information
Released:  September 23, 1982
Recorded: Spring 1982, A&R Recording Studios and Media Sound Studios, New York
Genre: Pop/Rock 
Length: 41:57
Label:  Columbia/Family Productions
Producer:  Phil Ramone

Words and Music by Billy Joel
Personnel
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Billy Joel – vocals, acoustic & electric pianos, synthesizers, Hammond organ, melodica, Prophet-5 synthesizer, Synclavier II on "Pressure", acoustic guitar on "Allentown"
Liberty DeVitto – drums, percussion
Doug Stegmeyer – bass guitar
David Brown – electric & acoustic guitars (lead)
Russell Javors – electric & acoustic guitars (rhythm)
Dominic Cortese – accordion on "Where's the Orchestra?"
Eddie Daniels – saxophone and clarinet on "Where's the Orchestra?"
Dave Grusin – string and horn arrangements
Charles McCracken – cello on "Where's the Orchestra?"
Rob Mounsey – synthesizer on "Scandinavian Skies"
​David Nadien – concertmaster on all except "Laura" and "Scandinavian Skies"


"String Fever" – strings on "Laura" and "Scandinavian Skies"
​Bill Zampino – field snare on "Goodnight Saigon"


​Production
Phil Ramone - producer
Laura Loncteaux - assistant producer
James Boyer - engineer, remix
Bradshaw Leigh - associate engineer
Michael Christopher - assistant engineer
Larry Franke - assistant engineer
Andy Hoffman - assistant engineer
Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC - mastering engineer
Kenneth Topolsky - production manager
Paula Scher - artwork
John Berg - inner sleeve design
Chris Austopchuk - front cover 
Benno Friedman - back cover 

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Allentown
Laura
Pressure
Goodnight Saigon
She's Right On Time
A Room Of Our Own
Surprises
Scandinavian Skies
Where's The Orchestra
Covers for "Laura," "A Room of Our Own," "Surprises," "Scandinavian Skies" and "Where's The Orchestra?" are fictional.  "Surprises" photo from VinylGif.  "Scandinavian Skies" photo from YouTube video by user Thelatepetercook.
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