Old Enough to Forget

I suppose there's a "Piano Man" pun somewhere to be had here - and I'm trying my best to type one but I'm using the wrong kind of keyboard. Yeah, sorry. Back in the summer of 1980 Glass Houses had firmly become part of my musical landscape. Oddly enough I didn't have my own copy at the time - everyone I knew had one, so I figured I was in the clear. I remember people talking about how Billy Joel had gone new wave and there are some tunes where he's playing things pretty close to the flavour of the day - then again a song like "Don't Ask Me Why" would have been right at home on his 1977 release The Stranger .  Looking back with the benefit of hindsight you can hear Billy Joel as he slowly moved with the times. Glass Houses was truly the logical successor to 52nd Street where songs like "Big Shot" and "My Life" to a lesser degree were setting the stage for what was to come. This was a guy who could basically do what he wan...