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The Bridge is Billy Joel’s tenth studio album released by Columbia Records in 1986, and was his final album to be produced by Phil Ramone. This album had several successful singles, including “A Matter of Trust” (peaking at #10), “Modern Woman” (which also appeared on the Ruthless People soundtrack, peaking at #10), and “This Is the Time” (peaking at #18). Joel began work on the album in 1985 and it would become The Bridge in early 1986. Two of Joel’s big influences, Ray Charles and Steve Winwood, made guest appearances on the album. Ray Charles sang a duet with Joel on the song “Baby Grand,” and Steve Winwood played Hammond organ on the song “Getting Closer.” Other notable musicians who made guest appearances on the album include the jazz musicians Ron Carter and Michael Brecker who both played on the jazzy track “Big Man on Mulberry Street.” The album also had some New Wave influences. For instance, the first song, “Running on Ice,” is heavily influenced by the music of The Police, and the final song recorded for the album, “Code Of Silence,” featured Cyndi Lauper who contributed backing vocals and received co-writing credit for the lyrics (Joel would return the favor by contributing backing vocals on Lauper’s song “Maybe He’ll Know” for her 1986 album True Colors). Though it broke into the Top Ten, The Bridge was not a success in relation to some of Joel’s other albums, but it yielded the hit “A Matter of Trust.” The Bridge was Joel’s last album to carry the “Family Productions” logo which had appeared on all of Joel’s albums up to that time as part of a deal that Columbia Records made to get Joel out his recording contract with Artie Ripp’s Family Productions. This copy has been hand signed in black ink to the front cover (one of two such LPs in our collection and available for sale).
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