Billy Joel - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, 6-18-1994

Every now and then, I stumble across another Billy Joel BBC concert, and here we go again. I'd missed this one because it isn't usually labeled as being a BBC concert, just a soundboard. But the BBC's own website says it broadcast this. I can't say I ever heard of a BBC concert from Frankfurt, Germany, but this location was chosen because it was the last concert of the tour.

In late 1993, Joel released the studio album "River of Dreams." Surprisingly, as I write this in 2025, he hasn't released another studio album of conventional songs ever since. (He did later put out an album of classical music.) So this is a good time for a BBC concert, since it deals with pretty much all of his original material.

This album remains unreleased. There were no problems needing fixing.

By the way, I found out that Joel's concert in Leningrad, Russia in 1987 was also broadcast by the BBC. However, I decided not to post that for two reasons. One, it was officially released at the time as "КОНЦЕРТ." And two, Joel didn't like it and didn't want it released, because his voice got hoarse from too many shows and interviews in Russia in a short time period. Apparently, he jokingly called it "Kaput." His record company insisted on releasing it due to the historical nature of a major Western artist performing in Russia during the Cold War. (The Berlin Wall would come down two years later, in 1989.)

This album is two hours and two minutes long.

01 No Man's Land (Billy Joel)
02 Pressure (Billy Joel)
03 talk (Billy Joel)
04 The Ballad of Billy the Kid (Billy Joel)
05 talk (Billy Joel)
06 Leningrad (Billy Joel)
07 Prelude - Angry Old Man (Billy Joel)
08 Allentown (Billy Joel)
09 talk (Billy Joel)
10 Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Billy Joel)
11 Honesty (Billy Joel)
12 My Life (Billy Joel)
13 talk (Billy Joel)
14 I Go to Extremes (Billy Joel)
15 talk (Billy Joel)
16 An Innocent Man (Billy Joel)
17 talk (Billy Joel)
18 Shades of Grey (Billy Joel)
19 The River of Dreams (Billy Joel)
20 Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
21 We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel)
22 talk (Billy Joel)
23 A Hard Day's Night (Billy Joel)
24 It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Billy Joel)
25 You May Be Right (Billy Joel)
26 Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel)
27 Big Shot (Billy Joel)
28 Piano Man (Billy Joel)

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The cover photo is from a concert in Gent, Belgium, on May 18, 1994.