{"id":29731,"date":"2024-06-14T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-14-1980-billy-joels-glass-houses-lands-at-1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:02:38","slug":"on-this-day-june-14-1980-billy-joels-glass-houses-lands-at-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-14-1980-billy-joels-glass-houses-lands-at-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 14, 1980: Billy Joel\u2019s ‘Glass Houses’ lands at #1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, June 14, 1980 …\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy Joel\u00a0<\/strong>landed at #1 with his seventh studio album,\u00a0<\/span>Glass Houses<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Influenced in part by new wave music, it featured, in Billy\u2019s words, \u201cbigger, louder, faster, shorter and punchier\u201d material.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four tunes off the album became Top 40 hits, including \u201cIt\u2019s Still Rock and Roll to Me,\u201d which was Joel\u2019s first#1 single. Other hits included \u201cYou May Be Right,\u201d \u201cSometimes a Fantasy\u201d and “Don\u2019t Ask Me Why.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Glass Houses\u00a0<\/span><\/em>remained on top of the charts for six weeks and went on to be certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also earned Joel his fifth Grammy, winning Best Rock Male Vocal Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy\u00a0is set to wrap his 10-year residency at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden on July 25. He also has upcoming shows booked with Stevie Nicks<\/strong>, Rod Stewart<\/strong> and Sting<\/strong>. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span>billyjoel.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On This Day, June 14, 1980 …\u00a0 Billy Joel\u00a0landed at #1 with his seventh studio album,\u00a0Glass Houses. Influenced in part by new wave music, it featured, in Billy\u2019s words, \u201cbigger, louder, faster, shorter and punchier\u201d material. Four tunes off the album became Top 40 hits, including \u201cIt\u2019s Still Rock andRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}