• The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on September 23, 1982, and produced by Phil Ramone. The...
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  • The Nylon Curtain Tour was a 1982 concert tour by singer-songwriter Billy Joel. This tour was Joel's first tour following a divorce from his first wife...
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    Billy Joel (category Entertainers from the Bronx)
    first single to top the Billboard Hot 100), "You May Be Right", "Don't Ask Me Why", and "Sometimes a Fantasy". The Nylon Curtain (1982) stemmed from a...
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  • Goodnight Saigon (category Songs of the Vietnam War)
    Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines...
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  • 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. A live version of the song was included on the 2006 album 12 Gardens Live. Producer Phil Ramone described the song as being...
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    albums in the United States: All except Cold Spring Harbor, Piano Man, Streetlife Serenade, Turnstiles, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain and Songs...
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  • Allentown (song) (category Songs about cities in the United States)
    song by American singer Billy Joel and the lead track on Joel's 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. Released as the album's second single, it was accompanied...
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  • the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on July 1, 1985. The album has been certified double diamond by the RIAA...
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  • Billy Joel from the album The Nylon Curtain, released as the album's first single and reached at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The synthesizer-driven...
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  • Multi-instrumentalist Cannata left the band just before the sessions began for Joel's next studio album, 1982's The Nylon Curtain. This album was the third collaboration...
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  • the Vermont section. He is notable for authoring Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain. The 1974 publication was put under contract by Prentice-Hall in anticipation...
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  • on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain. Commentators have noted its Beatle-esque elements and obscure lyrics. Joel has stated that the song was inspired...
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  • from the 1944 film's theme "Laura" (Bat for Lashes song) "Laura" (Billy Joel song), a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album The Nylon Curtain "Laura"...
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    Liberty DeVitto (category The Lords of 52nd Street members)
    the Attic 1982 The Nylon Curtain 1983 An Innocent Man 1985 Greatest Hits Volume I & II 1985 Spoiled Girl – with Carly Simon 1986 The Bridge 1987 КОНЦЕРТ...
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  • DuPont (category Chemical companies of the United States)
    Pap A. (trans. 2007). Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America Zilg, Gerard Colby. DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain (Prentice-Hall: 1974)...
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  • Russell Javors (category The Lords of 52nd Street members)
    Glass Houses 1981 Songs in the Attic 1982 The Nylon Curtain 1983 An Innocent Man 1985 Greatest Hits Volume I & II 1986 The Bridge 1987 КОНЦЕРТ 1997 Greatest...
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  • Surprise (redirect from The Surprise)
    Barkley from the album The Odd Couple, 2008 "Surprises", by Billy Joel from the album The Nylon Curtain, 1982 "Surprise", by Jars of Clay from the album Good...
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  • The Complete Hits Collection: 1973–1997 is a 4-disc greatest hits album by American Billy Joel. It was released on October 14, 1997, a boxed set was released...
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  • 1977 The Stranger 1978 52nd Street 1980 Glass Houses 1982 The Nylon Curtain 1983 An Innocent Man 1986 The Bridge With Phoebe Snow 1978 Against the Grain...
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    List of Billy Joel band members (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
    The band began with the recording of his first album as a solo artist in 1971; it stabilized around 1975 and underwent several lineup changes in the late...
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  • Right-to-work law (category Labor relations in the United States)
    Behind the Nylon Curtain. Secaucus: Lyle Stewart. "The racist roots of 'right to work' laws". Southernstudies.org. December 13, 2012. Archived from the original...
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  • Songs in the Attic is the first live album by Billy Joel, released in 1981. At the time of its release, it was the first widely available appearance of...
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  • 2001, and has been certified Triple Platinum by the RIAA. In conjunction with the release of the album, The Essential Video Collection was released, comprising...
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  • Innocent Man is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on August 8, 1983. The concept album is a tribute to the American popular...
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    "Glass Houses: Credits". allmusic.com. Retrieved March 31, 2015. "The Nylon Curtain: Credits". allmusic.com. Retrieved March 31, 2015. Hudy, Stan (August...
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  • Sean – I Decided (2017) Billy Idol – Cyberpunk (1993) Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain (1982) Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983) Billy Woods and Kenny Segal...
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    Rust Belt (redirect from The rust belt)
    "Allentown," originally released on The Nylon Curtain album in 1982. The song uses Allentown as a metaphor for the resilience of working class Americans...
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    Billy Joel's The Stranger, 52nd Street and The Nylon Curtain, and the soundtracks for Yentl and Silkwood, as well as producing Billy Joel's The Matter of...
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    In 1982, Allentown is the subject and title of the Billy Joel song, "Allentown," which is the first song on The Nylon Curtain album and uses Allentown...
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    curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is...
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