Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2 [Sheet music]

Billy Joel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1987

A great collection of 21 huge hits from this pop superstar: Allentown * Big Shot * Don't Ask Me Why * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Just the Way You Are * The Longest Time * Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) * My Life * New York State of Mind * Only the Good Die Young * Piano Man * Pressure * She's Always a Woman * Tell Her About It * Uptown Girl * You May Be Right * You're Only Human * more.

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• Sheet music: 136 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (December 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793503701
• ISBN-13: 978-0793503704
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Billy Joel, January 13, 2000

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Oliver (wyoming, ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2 (Sheet music)

This book gives you an easy way to play his songs. If you want to play just the simple tunes to the songs then get this book. For those who want the actual transcriptions that you hear on his cds, go for the billy joel keyboard book.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great, August 8, 1999

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Eammon Azizi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2 (Sheet music)

Billy's music is so complex, this book is usless, unless you are looking just to know the chords or melody of the song. If you wanna be able to actually play the real songs, go for the Authentic Transcription book.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fits Well to Many Billy Joel Songs, October 26, 2004

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Joshua Houston (Sitka, AK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2 (Sheet music)

This book does an exceptional job of capturing a few of Billy Joel's songs into one instrument. Only for a few songs is this a good book, however. Do not buy this book for the more piano-geared songs like "My Life", "Allentown", or "Piano Man". Those songs should be played from the real transcription from the Billy Joel Keyboard book, unless you hate singing.

Here is the positive stuff about this book: "Goodnight Saigon" - an amazing song, one of my favorite. This book does a great job on it. And it's easy to add little extra strikes to the chords to simulate the guitar strokes. "Uptown Girl", "Only the Good Die Young", and "The Longest Time" - great songs that are written well for this book. Albeit, I have to say referring to "The Longest Time" everything's great except I think the first 3 notes should be C-D-C, not C-C-Bb.

Overall, this book is good for true Billy Joel fans that haven't figured out all of his songs by now, and also Billy Joel fans that would rather play all of his music without having to do any singing.