Passage: Columbia Records ya gabatar da Joel ga Phil Ramone, wanda zai samar da dukkan kundin kundin Joel daga The Stranger (1977) zuwa The Bridge (1986). Baƙon ya kasance babbar nasara ta kasuwanci, yana samar da manyan abubuwa guda 25 a kan jadawalin Billboard: "Just the Way You Are" (# 3), "Movin' Out" (# 17), "Only the Good Die Young" (# 24), da kuma "She's Always a Woman" (# 17). Joel na farko Top Ten album, The Stranger an tabbatar da shi da yawa-platinum kuma ya kai lamba biyu a kan jadawalin, yana sayar da Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia's previous best-selling album. The Stranger kuma ya nuna "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", wani kundin kundin kundin kundin kundin kundin kundin, wanda ya zama daya daga cikin waƙoƙin da aka fi sani Tambaya: Wace waƙa ce aka zaba? 17.
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