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For a limited time, now more Essential music from your favorite artists!

In addition to all the hits on Discs 1 and 2 of these best-selling Essential collections, Limited Edition 3.0 CDs feature these additional hits and fan favorites!

* Each Essential Limited Edition 3.0 expanded 3-CD set features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from superstar artists, including material not previously available in an Essential package.

* Definitive, career-spanning and comprehensive, The Essential 3.0 series features all of the must-have selections from the biggest names in music history-now with a 3rd disc!

* Now available for the first time in eco-friendly cardboard packaging.

* Limited Edition 3.0 disc features "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" and "Big Shot"

Limited Edition 3.0 titles are in stores August 26, 2008 and can be purchased from Amazon!

Billy Joel: The Stranger Live debuts on public television stations nation-wide beginning in August and September (check local listings). Stay tuned for updates.

During the broadcasts, you'll have the opportunity to receive "thank-you" gifts for your donation, including an exclusive Bonus CD just for supporters of Billy Joel on public TV. This special CD will not be sold in stores!

If your local public television station is not listed, contact them directly and tell them you want to see Billy Joel: The Stranger Live!

Not sure of your local public television station?

Click here: www.pbs.org/stationfinder 

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Icon Collectibles has a very special Billy Joel item available right now, a Platinum Palladium autographed print of the Billy Joel, The Stranger photo shoot contact sheet.  There are only 25 of these prints in the world.  This video will take you through the 'making process', and show you how truly special this item is.

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To purchase the item, go directly to

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They are going fast, so if you are interested in this item, be sure go get yours soon.

Catch Access Hollywood tonight on NBC featuring Billy Joel back stage at "Last Play At Shea" discussing THE STRANGER 30TH ANNIVERSARY #1 CHART DEBUT!

With the "Last Plays at Shea" shows this week, we thought it would be interesting to see the photos you took at these, or any other Billy Joel shows through the years.  Share any or all of your Billy Joel concert experiences with ConcertAttack.com from now until August 15th, 2008 and you will be entered for a chance to win the 30th Anniversary 2CD+DVD Deluxe Edition of The Stranger! The more of your Billy Joel concert pictures and reviews you share from any Billy Joel concert you've attended the more you increase your chances of winning! For more details and to enter please visit: http://www.concertattack.com/billyjoel.cfm

To celebrate the release of The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Edition, Billy Joel will be the featured guest on the nationally syndicated radio show Rockline Wednesday July 2 at 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET.

Fans are encouraged to speak with Mr. Joel by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625).
This show will then be streamed for two weeks on the Rockline website, allowing you a chance to listen at your convenience.

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Legacy Recordings proudly celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Billy Joel's breakout album "The Stranger" with the release of two special editions -- a 2 CD Legacy Edition and a Deluxe Limited Edition including 2 CDs plus a bonus DVD -- of the best-selling multi-platinum collection which catapulted Joel into the upper ranks of pop music superstardom.  Each of the 30th Anniversary editions of "The Stranger" will be available online and in stores on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.

Originally released in September 1977, Billy Joel's fifth studio album, "The Stranger," marked the first of Joel's highly successful collaborations with producer Phil Ramone, whose mastery of the recording studio provided a sublime sonic context for Joel's timeless songs and classic performances.  "I was very happy that we chose Phil Ramone," said Billy Joel in a recent interview for the 30th Anniversary edition of "The Stranger."  "He got it right away."

The resulting collection became one of the top-selling albums of the year (peaking at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart); won two Grammys (Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Just The Way You Are," "The Stranger" was nominated for Album of the Year); overtook Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as Columbia Records Top Selling Album of the time, and generated four indelible singles -- "Just The Way You Are (#1 Adult Contemporary, #3 Pop Singles); "Only The Good Die Young" (#24 Pop Singles); "She's Always A Woman" (#2 Adult Contemporary, #17 Pop Singles); and "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (#17 Pop Singles) -- that remain radio staples to this day.

"I don't recall particularly feeling 'this is going to be the breakthrough,'" said Billy Joel in an interview for "The Stranger - 30th Anniversary Edition."  "We were just happy with the album we were making at the time.... But now, in hindsight, I can see it was a real important album."

Billy Joel's first Top 10 album, "The Stranger" is still the iconic performer's best-selling non-compilation album ever.  Ranked at #67 on Rolling Stone's prestigious "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, "The Stranger" has earned the coveted RIAA Diamond Album certification (presented in recognition of US sales of more than 10 million copies).

"The Stranger - 30th Anniversary" will be available in two configurations from Legacy Recordings.

The limited deluxe edition of "The Stranger" includes a CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone; a CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy and his band, "Live At Carnegie Hall 1977," recorded at the historic Manhattan venue on June 3, 1977, one month prior to the sessions for "The Stranger" album and newly restored for the new editions of "The Stranger"; and a DVD showcasing two live promotional videos from "The Stranger" and the long-awaited release of Billy's fabled appearance on the BBC's "Old Grey Whistle Test," a seldom-seen sixty minute cavalcade from 1978 that has aired only once on the UK's BBC2. 

Rounding out the limited deluxe edition of "The Stranger - 30th Anniversary" package is a 48 page booklet with liner notes from Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke and a multitude of photos, including never-before-seen images from the original photo shoot for the album.

Also available is "The Stranger - 30th Anniversary" Legacy Edition which includes the CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone; the previously unreleased, newly restored "Live At Carnegie Hall 1977" CD; and a 24 page booklet with liner notes by David Fricke and unseen photos from the album's original photo shoot.

Pre-Order this record now at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&;location=http%3A//www.amazon.com/Stranger-30th-Anniversary-Legacy-Set/dp/B00168PTFQ/ref%3Dsr_1_9%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1209484421%26sr%3D1-9&tag=legacy_recordings-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">Amazon</a>