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A Year Of Billy Joel: Allentown

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Song: Allentown

Album: The Nylon Curtain (1982)

Welcome to the 80’s Billy Joel. The Nylon Curtain is the first Billy Joel record that can properly be called an 80’s record. While the two records that came before it were both released in the decade they were both firmly rooted in the…

My friend Will has spent this year writing about the songs of Billy Joel from first to last, and today he wrote a piece on “Allentown”.  As an Allentonian, I felt it was my duty to write a companion piece, which I’ll reblog above.

Regardless of your own thoughts on Billy Joel, if you like smart and funny writing about music and life, you should be following Will’s blog.  

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    friend Will has spent this year writing...piece on “Allentown”.
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