On October 17, 1989, “Columbia” label released “Storm Front”, the eleventh Billy Joel studio album. It was recorded 1988 – 1989, at “The Hit Factory”; “Times Square Studio”; “Right Track Recording”; The Power Station” in New York, and “The Warehouse Studio” in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was produced by Billy Joel and Mick Jones. The album was certified Platinum in Australia by “ARIA”; 2 x Platinum in Canada by “Music Canada”; Platinum in Germany by “BVMI”; Platinum in Japan by “RIAJ”; Platinum in UK by “BPI”, and 4 x Platinum in the US by “RIIA”.
Personnel:
- Billy Joel – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, clavinet, accordion, Hammond organ, harpsichord, synthesizers, guitars, percussion
- David Brown – lead guitar, Midi guitar solo
- Joey Hunting – rhythm guitar
- Mick Jones – guitar
- John Mahoney – keyboards, keyboards programming
- Don Brooks – harmonica
- Dominic Cortese – accordion
- Jeff Jacobs – synthesizers, horn arrangements
- Schuyler Deale – bass guitar
- Liberty DeVitto – drums, percussion
- Crystal Taliefero – percussion
- Sammy Merendino – electronic percussion
- Lenny Pickett – saxophone
- Itzhak Perlman – violin
- Kevin Jones – keyboard programming
- Doug Kleeger – sounds effects
- Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson: The Memphis Horns
- Bill Zampino – choral arrangement
- Chuck Arnold – choral leader
- Arif Mardin – orchestral arrangement
- Mick Jones, Richard Marx, Crystal Taliefero, Jeff Jacobs, Patricia Darcy-Jones, Frank Floyd, Brian Ruggles, Joe Lynn Turner, Ian Lloyd, Brenda White King, Curtis King – backing vocals
- Dana Becker, Tim Crich, Jay Healy, Suzanne Hollander, Joe Pirrera, Gary Solomon – engineer
- Tom Lord-Alge , Jay Healy – mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
Track lsiting:
All tracks by Billy Joel.
- That’s Not Her Style
- We Didn’t Start the Fire
- The Downeaster ‘Alexa’
- I Go to Extremes
- Shameless
- Storm Front
- Leningrad
- State of Grace
- When in Rome
- And So It Goes
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