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This is a nice informal video from Sony Legacy Recordings with director Tom Tierney showing photos of Billy Joel album art for Turnstiles, Glass Houses, Songs In The Attic, An Innocent Man, and 52nd Street. For more information, see www.legacyrecordings.com.
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Official Billy Joel Site
The official Billy Joel site has many interesting photos of Billy Joel organized into several galleries. It also includes a section of fan photos. There is also a special photo page on: Behind The Scenes: River of Dreams Photos. Billy Joel Forever This is a fantastic website of many rare photos of Billy Joel, both print and digital, that have been collected over the years by Jenni Jolly Nordaby. The layout and organization of this website are excellent. Many of the rare photos you see on Billy Joel fan pages on social media probably came from this site's precedessor sites (on Pinterest and other social media pages). Update: The website is apparently under re-construction. In the meantime, visit its Instagram page Billy Joel Forever for rare Billy Joel photos. Getty Images Getty Images is one of the largest photo management/licensing companies. They have thousands of stock photos and Billy Joel photos that can be viewed. If you have your own non-commercial site or blog, you can use some of these (go to gettyimages.com/embed). This is a great tool by Getty, see article. If you want to use other photos, or use photos for a commercial purpose, a license is required from Getty. Popspots This is a very fun website by Bob Egan in which he photographs the locations of famous album covers and provides background information. He has done the following Billy Joel albums or songs: -- Cold Spring Harbor -- Streetlife Serenade -- Turnstiles -- The Stranger (back cover) -- 52nd Street -- My Life (video) -- An Innocent Man Don Hunstein Don Hunstein is a photographer who did work for Columbia Records for several decades. He took many well-known photographs of recording artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, and many others. Don took the photos of Billy Joel in New York in 1973 after he signed with Columbia Records such as the one to the right, as well as many other photos. You can purchase Don's book here. This is a nice article about him from "It's Nice That" in which his wife DeeAnne Hunstein tells the story of how they met and their life together. My Billy Joel Life This is a fan photo page of Billy Joel which has many interesting photos taken in Long Island. Billy Joel State of Mind Tumblr Page by Catalina This fan's Tumblr page has many rare photos, a must see. Sirius XM Radio Photo Montage This photo montage is very good, it has some rarely seen photos of Billy Joel like the one showing Billy on a motorcycle (right). Billy Joel: Completely Retold Facebook Page This is the best Billy Joel fan page on the Internet. Not only does it have many rare photos of Billy Joel, posted by fans and others, but it is frequently updated, managed well, and has a very active group of "Retolders." 52nd Street Serenade This fan site, now offline, had many rarely seen photos of Billy over the years, quite a collection. |
 Billy Joel (1981). CBS Records publicity photo. 
Billy in New York (1973). Photo by Don Hunstein.
The Sirius XM Radio Photo Montage of Billy has many rare photos like this one from 1980.
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Photo by Chris Buck (2001) which appeared in Blender Magazine. Read about the background of this photo, here.
This is a great Billy Joel collage from the Rock on Vinyl blog.
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