Glass Houses by Billy Joel

1980 | Pop | Rock

Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on March 12, 1980.[3] It features Joel's first song to peak at No.  1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked No.  4 on Billboard's 1980 year-end album chart.[4] The album is the 41st best selling album of the 1980s, with sales of 7.1 million copies in the U.S. alone. In 1981, Joel won a Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" for his work on Glass Houses.[5] According to music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the album featured "a harder-edged sound" compared to Joel's other work, in response to the punk and new wave movements.[6] This was also the final studio album to feature the original incarnation (Joel, Richie Cannata, Doug Stegmeyer, Russell Javors, & Liberty DeVitto) of the Billy Joel Band.

Billy Joel (Artist/Musician)