With the gift-giving holidays around the corner, it’s nice to see a good gift item pop up on the vinyl radar. And if you’re a Billy Joel fan who wants to update your existing – or scattered – vinyl collection, well, then…here you go.
On November 5, Columbia will release a first volume Billy Joel vinyl set called simply, The Vinyl Collection – Vol. 1. Inside will be 9 vinyl LPs covering eight career studio albums, and one live set that will occupy the grooves of 2LPs. Those include:
- Cold Spring Harbor (1971)
- Piano Man (1973)
- Streetlife Serenade (1974)
- Turnstiles (1976)
- The Stranger (1977)
- 52nd Street (1978)
- Songs In The Attic (1981)
- Live At The Great American Music Hall (1975)
The vinyl LPs will be pressed on 150g-weight black vinyl. A 50-page booklet with photos, notes, credits and memorabilia from this period of Billy Joel‘s career will be included within the box.