I've been talking about Billy Joel's first album "COLD SPRING HARBOR" a bit lately. And the BS he went through on it. Did you know they mastered it at the wrong speed so that Billy sounded almost like Alvin and the Chipmunks? That's what I read. Then he was touring around and didn't even see a copy in the shops? So he just walked out one day, started working in piano bars as BILL MARTIN, where he wrote "Piano Man", and Columbia Records heard "Captain Jack" on the radio, and the rest is history...
But the original record company wanted their label on the next TEN albums.
I do not believe Billy has ever really completed "COLD SPRING HARBOR". Go and check it out if you haven't already. It's a pretty interesting piece. Raw. Intimate. I would be interested to see him remake it actually.
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