Billy Joel Glass Houses

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• Glass Houses is Billy Joels seventh studio album, released on March 12, 1980. Produced by Phil Ramone, the album marked Joels shift from polished piano-pop balladry toward a grittier rock and new wave-inspired sounda reaction to rising punk and new wave trends. It debuted with the sound of shattering glass and featured guitar-heavy tracks like You May Be Right and Its Still Rock and Roll to Me. The album topped the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks and earned Joel a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

  Critically, Glass Houses is considered Joels hardest-rocking and most daring album. AllMusic praises it as the closest Joel ever got to a pure rock album and a notable catalog of contemporary pop styles with McCartney-esque whimsy, arena rock, soft rock, and new wave