All My Life - Joel, Billy

The last time Billy Joel released anything that was a new rock song was fourteen years before this. His time in between has been live albums, compilations, and his classical music pursuits. Those of us who have grown up with Billy Joel have held out hope he'd do a full album of rock music again.

He still hasn't done that, but in late 2006 he recorded his first "rock" song in ages. This track was actually available exclusively for awhile on the People Magazine website. It came out on Valentine's Day 2007, and was about a week later or so released to iTunes as a single download. Now this isn't high pep stuff like a lot of his older rock tracks. It's a slower love song.

It was written by what I've read for his third wife. What I find amusing about that he wrote songs for his first two wives, too, and they split up. Hopefully this one sticks - it's obvious the song is about her, and that's cool. OK, one down - we just need about ten more, and we can have another album!