Billy Joel : Glass Houses (Expanded Edition)

HOT FUNK

COOL PUNK

EVEN IF IT'S OLD JUNK

IT'S STILL ROCK N' ROLL TO ME

Glass Houses

 is the seventh 

studio album

 by American 

singer-songwriter

 Billy Joel 

released on 

March 12, 1980, 

by Columbia Records. 

The record was a 

commercial success,

 topping the

 Billboard 200 chart

 for six consecutive weeks.

 It features Joel's 

first single to peak at

 No. 1 on 

Billboard's 

Hot 100 chart, 

"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". 

It was ranked No. 4 

on

 Billboard's 1980

 year-end chart.

The album is the

 41st best-selling album

 of the 1980s, 

with sales of 

7.1 million copies

 in the US alone.

 In 1981,

 Joel won a 

Grammy Award 

for Best Male 

Rock Vocal Performance 

for his work on

 Glass Houses. 

According to 

music critic

 Stephen Thomas Erlewine,

 the album featured 

"a harder-edged sound" 

compared to

 Joel's other work, 

in response to the 

punk and new wave

 movements.

 This was also the 

final studio album 

to feature the 

original incarnation

 Joel, 

Richie Cannata, 

Doug Stegmeyer, 

Russell Javors 

and 

Liberty DeVitto

 of the Billy Joel Band, 

augmented by 

new lead guitarist

 David Brown. 

Multi-instrumentalist

 Cannata

 left the band

 just before the 

sessions began 

for Joel's next

 studio album, 

1982's 

The Nylon Curtain.

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