Joel, Billy | Vinyl Collection, Volume 1, Th | 1LP

Billy Joel is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. He was born on 9 May 1949 in the Bronx, New York, and moved to the Levittown section of Hicksville, Long Island, where he started playing piano at age 4. He started his solo career in 1971 with the album Cold Spring Harbour and achieved fame in 1973 with Piano Man. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer in 1999.

The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1 is a box set of nine LPs released by Columbia in 2021 and issued in Europe. It collects Cold Spring Harbor, Piano Man, Streetlife Serenade, Turnstiles, The Stranger and 52nd Street, the live album Songs in the Attic, and the previously unreleased Live at The Great American Music Hall, 1975. The set includes an essay by Anthony DeCurtis.