Billy Joel

A Matter of Trust: How Brad Leigh is Remixing Billy Joel for Dolby Atmos

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 09/04/2024 ⋅ Updated: 01/02/2025

Brad Leigh helped record half of Billy Joel’s discography; now the veteran engineer is carefully bringing it into Dolby Atmos.

Billy Joel, circa 2001. Photo: Rainer Hosch / Columbia Records.

Blog

Editor’s Note: Making The Connection

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 05/21/2024

Much of this month’s cover story about Billy Joel's first single in 30 years takes place on his home turf: Long Island.

“Billy knows what he wants, and what he doesn’t want,” says Wexler. “For this song, he wanted a string quartet, but nothing that felt too self-serious or melodramatic. He also wanted a big, bright snare with ample space, but within a drum pattern that favored the twos and fours, not a waltz.” Photo: Blythe Thomas.

Music Production

How Freddy Wexler Created ‘Turn the Lights Back On’ with Billy Joel

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 04/23/2024 ⋅ Updated: 09/26/2024

Songwriter/producer Freddy Wexler has worked on pop hits for Bieber, Blackpink and more, but teaming with Billy Joel for the Piano Man's first true...

Billy Joel Exhibit to Revive Phil Ramone’s A&R Recording

Business

Billy Joel Exhibition to Honor Phil Ramone’s A&R Recording

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 11/03/2023

A new Billy Joel museum exhibition will explore the entertainer’s career, including his studio work inside New York CIty's legendary A&R Recording studio.

Billy Joel in concert at Madison Square Garden. Photo: Myrna Suarez.

Live Sound

Keeping the Crowd in a Billy Joel State of Mind

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 11/16/2022

With 160 million albums sold, these days Billy Joel focuses on live performances, all of which are mixed by longtime FOH engineer Brian Ruggles...

Pictured at Curb Studios’ new API Legacy AXS console in Studio A are, in back from left, Aaron Rowlin and Pat McMakin, and sitting, from left, studio manager and staff engineer David Bates, and chief engineer Craig White.

Blogs

Last Week in Nashville: Tuesday

By Tom Kenny ⋅ Published: 11/10/2022

Tom Kenny's epic travels through Nashville continue, as he scopes out Curb and Starstruck Studios, Belmont University and very respectable Mexican food at Nada.