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The Stranger: 30th Anniversary [Limited Edition] (Deluxe Boxed Set - 2 CDs + 1 DVD) | ![The Stranger: 30th Anniversary [Limited Edition] (Deluxe Boxed Set - 2 CDs + 1 DVD)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41q7leKkzbL._SL500_.jpg)
| Artist: Billy Joel
Label: Sony Legacy
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1575
Format: Box Set, Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 5.8 x 1
MPN: 730801
UPC: 886973080122
EAN: 0886973080122
ASIN: B00168PTG0
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Condition: 2 CD's & 1 DVD; 3 booklets; Cardboard inset of Billy Joel Loose Inside Case; Case And Booklets Good overall; Discs VG overall. We ship Daily! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| | Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | | | Stranger | | | Just the Way You Are | | | Scenes from an Italian Restaurant | | | Vienna | | | Only the Good Die Young | | | Always a Woman | | | Get It Right the First Time | | | Everybody Has a Dream [Stranger Reprise] |
Disc 2
| | Miami 2017 [Live] | | | Angry Young Man [Live] | | | New York State of Mind [Live] | | | Just the Way You Are [Live] | | | She's Got a Way [Live] | | | Entertainer [Live] | | | Scenes from an Italian Restaurant [Live] | | | Band Intros [Live] | | | Captain Jack [Live] | | | I've Loved These Days [Live] | | | Say Goodbye to Hollywood [Live] | | | Souvenir [Live] |
Disc 3
| | Stranger [DVD] | | | Just the Way You Are [DVD] | | | Intro [DVD][Live] | | | Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go out on Broadway) [DVD][Live] | | | Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) [DVD][Live] | | | New York State of Mind [DVD][Live] | | | Entertainer [DVD][Live] | | | She's Always a Woman [DVD][Live] | | | Root Beer Rag [DVD][Live] | | | Just the Way You Are [DVD][Live] | | | Only the Good Die Young [DVD][Live] | | | Souvenir [DVD][Live] | | | Ain't No Crime [DVD][Live] | | | [Bonus Material] [DVD] [*] |
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Album Description
Limited Edition 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - 3 Discs (2 CDs and 1 DVD)
CD of "The Stranger" remastered by the original album producer, Phil Ramone
CD of "Live At Carnegie Hall 1977"- previously unreleased - On June 3, 1977, one month prior to the recording of The Stranger album, Billy and his band performed at the historical Carnegie Hall.
Bonus DVD of BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test - approx 60 minutes PLUS 2 live promotional videos
48 Page Booklet with liner notes by Rolling Stone Editor, David Fricke and un-seen photos from the original album photo shoot
The Stranger CD Tracklist:
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
The Stranger
Just The Way You Are
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Vienna
Only the Good Die Young
She's Always A Woman
Get It Right The First Time
Everybody Has Dream
"Live At Carnegie Hall 1977" CD
On June 3, 1977, one month prior to the recording of The Stranger album, Billy and his band performed at the historical Carnegie Hall in NYC. This show has been brilliantly restored to be released for the first time as part of the 30th Anniversary edtion of The Stranger
"The Old Grey Whistle Test" DVD
Billy Joel made a special appearance on BBC2 television music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" in early 1978 during the promotion for The Stranger album. The show is approximately 60 minutes and aired only once on BBC2. The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from September 1971 to 1987. The Old Grey Whistle Test was also the template for what later became MTV.
"Miami 2017"
"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)"
"New York State Of Mind"
"The Entertainer"
"She's Always A Woman"
"Root Beer Rag"
"Just The Way You Are"
"Souvenir"
"Ain't No Crime"
"Only The Good Die Young"
PLUS Live Promotional videos:
"The Stranger"
"Just The Way You Are"
Album Description
Includes the original classic album from 1978, a 13 track live performance at Carnegie Hall from 1977 & a 10 track Old Grey Whistle Test performance on the DVD as well as 2 live promotional videos.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 This is one for the collectors! July 8, 2008
Allen Chapman (STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT USA)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This new boxed set is released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Billy Joel's breakthrough album "The Stranger". The album, originally released in 1977, made Billy Joel a household name. To celebrate the 30th anniversary Columbia has put together a nice set. The first disc is the original album, the second disc is a live recording from his sold out Carniege Hall shows in June of '77. Aside from the pristine sound on this disc, what's interesting is to hear him introduce two of the songs from "The Stranger" that would become classics but at the time were unknown to audiences. "Just The Way You Are", in a slightly different arrangement receives only a smattering of applause at the intro, while "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" which is a huge concert favorite today receives almost no applause at the introduction. Overall it's a really great show.
The DVD includes two live promotional videos for "The Stranger" and "Just The Way You Are", a half hour documentary about the making of the album with recent interviews from both Billy and album producer Phil Ramone. Among other things you learn that the sax solo in "Just The Way You Are" is a combination of several solos that Ramone spliced together so that it was seamless. Also on the DVD is an additional one hour concert from England.
Depending on where you pick this set up, you will also get a bonus disc. If you get it at Best Buy it has five live tracks recorded in December of 1977 at Nassau Colliseum, if you get it at Target you get a DVD with live videos from previously released collections.
Finally the set also includes a replica of the Sold Out poster for Carniege Hall, a book about the album loaded with unseen photos and memorbilia all on glossy pages. The coolest thing though is a replica of Billy's lyric notebook for "The Stranger" with his handwritten lyrics and notes about the album. You even get the grease stains on the pages!!!
A very cool set, but one for diehard collectors. For the casual fan pick up the 2 disc set that contains just the original album and live Carniege Hall disc.
A fitting salute to a great album July 9, 2008
William Merrill (San Antonio, TX United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a very nice boxed set and an excellently thorough and generous treatment for a "classic" album in many senses of the term. The latest remastering of the original album may be very good. I didn't notice much difference myself. (Actually I think you have to be an audiophile to possess the trained ears to hear such things.) My focus is on all of the bounteous bonus material. The Carnegie Hall concert was a high quality recording of a spirited and superb performance by both Mr. Joel and his band. I had a nice nostalgic experience listening to that previously unreleased recording, as I saw Joel in a marvelous Pittsburgh concert about a year later. The rest of the bonus stuff has been well described by reviewer Chapman in his good review. The lyrics workbook replica is cool and fun to look through. I especially appreciated the interesting (though short) DVD featurette about the making of The Stranger. It sheds a lot of new light on the creation of the album! Overall, I'm very grateful to get my hands (and ears & eyes) on this Anniversary set!
Happy 30th Birthday "Stranger"! July 9, 2008
B. J O'Connor (Holmdel,NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Billy Joel's 1977 mega-selling breakthrough "The Stranger" gets the the big birthday box treatment on this 2-CDs +1 DVD(please note:only Best-Buy sells the third CD) with a fantastic remastering of the original album,which surpasses the original 1980's CBS disc and the 1998 remaster easily;a second disc featuring a June 3,1977 performance at the lengendary Carnegie Hall containing an excellent takes of "Prelude/Angry Young Man","Captain Jack","Say Goodbye To Hollywood" and the two then-unreleased songs "Just The Way You Are",which is different from the studio version,and "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant".The DVD contains the March 14th,1978 BBC 1 TV "Old Grey Whistle Test" concert which is also quite stellar with good picture and sound,live promo videos of "The Stranger" and "Just The Way You Are" and a interesting new 30-minute documentary on the making of this landmark album.If that wasn't enough,there's a stylish 48-page booklet containing a fine essay by writer David Fricke,lyrics and cool montages of period photos and press clippings;a poster of the sold-out June 2,3&4 1977 stand at Carnegie Hall;and a diary(!).If you are(like me)a huge fan,this box is a must-have.If you are a casual fan,you can go for cheaper The Stranger: 30th Anniversary [Legacy Edition] - 2 CD Set.Either way you're in for a real treat!
The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Limited Edition ( Deluxe Boxed) 3CD's+1DVD July 9, 2008
Uri Agassi (New York)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just purchased the 3 cd's + 1 DVD at Best Buy. The Best Buy version includes a 3rd cd from the live performaces of 5 songs from December 1977. The songs included in this CD are
1. Just the Way you are
2. Vienna
3. The Ballad of Billy the Kid
4. Get it right the first time
5. Summer, Highland Falls
The sound is execellent and the price is the same a Amazon. My 5 stars is not for Amazon but for the disc itself.
I hope this helps all those looking for this.
A "must" for Piano Man fans August 8, 2008
Kenny Evans (Chicago, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned The Stranger album in every format it was ever sold (except maybe for 8-Track!), but this was the best purchase ever. Yes, the album is the same. But the Carnegie Hall performance CD is worth the purchase price all by itself! It's cool to hear a young BJ having fun with the audience (and poking fun at the Carnegie Hall management!). You can almost see everybody in their '70s gear just having an incredible time with another rebel on the stage.
But the most profound part of this CD was when Billy introduces a 'new' song called "Just The Way You Are". It was freaky to NOT hear the audience break out in a roar at the announcement of that song! It's been voted the best love song of all time (and it really is... the title itself is the ultimate definition of unconditional love), and here is Joel performing it for one of the first times ever.
The accompanying DVD is an added treat, of course... watching that same young Billy Joel performing live on an old British variety show with his long hair and sporadic gestures enjoying what he loves and what we love to hear and see.
And then the replica of his handwritten "Stranger" song book... Unbelievable. It's got all his scratch-outs and corrections... it even has a replica of a grease stain from some food he dropped on one page!
This is the best Billy Joel compilation I've ever purchased.
And I'm pretty sure I've bought 'em all...
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