Blog
From The Editor — Billy Joel and the Birth of Digital Recording
The career of Billy Joel and the development of digital recording uniquely paralleled each other, as both began in the 1960s and lurched forward...
Phil Ramone
Music Production
A Matter of Trust: How Brad Leigh is Remixing Billy Joel for Dolby Atmos
Brad Leigh helped record half of Billy Joel’s discography; now the veteran engineer is carefully bringing it into Dolby Atmos.
Blog
Editor’s Note: Making The Connection
Much of this month’s cover story about Billy Joel's first single in 30 years takes place on his home turf: Long Island.
Business
Billy Joel Exhibition to Honor Phil Ramone’s A&R Recording
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.
Featured
Music Producer and Mixer Jim Boyer Passes
Engineer had a long relationship with Billy Joel and Phil Ramone, also worked with Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Chicago, Paul McCartney and others
The Wire
FACES of MUSIC by Mr. Bonzai is Back in New Digital Apple Book
Mr. Bonzai’s “FACES of MUSIC: 25 Years of Lunching with Legends”, long out of print, is now available in a new digital Apple Book...
Music Production
Recording Engineer Donald C. Hahn Passes at 81
Don Hahn, whose engineering work could be heard on everything from "We Are The World" to Star Trek, died October 10 at the age...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Billy Joel’s “My Life”
'The Stranger' was Billy Joel's breakthrough, but it was the follow-up, '52nd Street'—which kicks off with "My Life"—that cemented his success.
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”
Only an artist with the confidence and musical genius of Paul McCartney could write a song with 12 sections and make it a hit.
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