Attila (Billy Joel) : Attila

 Attila 

was an American

 rock duo

 from New York City, 

most notable for 

having featured 

a young 

William Joel

(Billy Joel.)

History

Billy Joel 

and

 Jon Small

 broke away from

 their band 

the Hassles 

and formed

 Attila in 1969.

 The instrumentation was 

organ and drums, 

with Joel

 also handling the

 bass lines 

with a keyboard, 

similar to

 the Doors' 

Ray Manzarek.

Their creative partnership

 ended in 1970

 when Joel

 ran off with 

Small's wife, 

Elizabeth, 

whom he later married, 

although this

 did not end

 their collaborations, 

as Small produced 

Joel's 1987 

Концерт video

 and the 

2011 

Live at Shea Stadium

 performance. 

Small became a 

music video director

Attila Album

Their only album, 

Attila, 

was released on 

July 27, 1970. 

No singles were released

 from the album 

and it did not chart. 

Joel himself has 

described the album as 

"psychedelic bullshit".

End of the sixties I was in a two-man group. We were heavy metal, we were going to destroy the world with amplification, we had titles like "Godzilla", "March of the Huns", "Brain Invasion". A lot of people think [I] just came out of the piano bar ... I did a lot of heavy metal for a while. We had about a dozen gigs and nobody could stay in the room when we were playing. It was too loud. We drove people literally out of clubs. "It was great, but we can't stay in the club."

— Billy Joel, Interview in 1985

The track 

Amplifier Fire, Part 1 (Godzilla)

would later appear on 

Joel's 2005 box set 

My Lives

Personnel

• Billy Joel (credited as William Joel) – vocals, keyboards, composer-arranger, production
• Jonathan Small – drums, composer-arranger, production
• Irwin Mazur – production
• Glenn Evans – road manager, technical (connected Hammond organ directly to Marshall amplifier)

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