Billy Joel: All About Soul [Paperback]

Richard Scott (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 103 pages
• Publisher: Vantage Pr; 1 edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0533130662
• ISBN-13: 978-0533130665
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,371,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Billy Joel: All About Soul, July 6, 2000

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SHSEPPO (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Billy Joel: All About Soul (Paperback)

...When I first got the book Billy Joel: All About Soul byRichard Scott, I thought this would be an easy to read--after all itwas a small paperback with only 103 pages including the index. It would be effortless to write--I've been writing reviews for years. It didn't turn out that way, mostly because this reviewer is not a Billy Joel fan nor knows much about rock and roll music.

So, what can I say? I enjoyed the book enormously! I learned far more about Billy Joel than I ever thought I wanted to know. Scott lets Billy tell about the tribulations and triumphs of his life in his own words. What I especially found interesting was how Scott weaves the songs chronologically into the story and describes the music with a musician's point of view.

I found Scott to be a refreshing, interesting writer and I appreciated his wry sense of humor...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good for such a short book, August 14, 2001

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Roy F. Johnson (Columbia, TN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Billy Joel: All About Soul (Paperback)

Mostly a history of Billy Joel's recordings - lots of nitty gritty talk. It was almost like reading a series of album covers. Still, there was a good bit of biographical information. I'd like to see a more complete biography with more human interraction. For example, I wanted to learn about Jerry Schilling's involvement, but there was no mention of him. Schilling was a member of Elvis's Memphis Mafia who went on to be Joel's road manager according to an Elvis biography.