{"id":30236,"date":"2024-08-28T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-28-1993-billy-joel-lands-fourth-1-album-with-river-of-dreams\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:04:01","slug":"on-this-day-aug-28-1993-billy-joel-lands-fourth-1-album-with-river-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-28-1993-billy-joel-lands-fourth-1-album-with-river-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 28, 1993: Billy Joel lands fourth #1 album with &#8216;River of Dreams&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-28\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 28, 1993\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billy Joel\u00a0<\/strong>hit #1 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200 Album chart with\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">River of Dreams<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, his final pop\/rock record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, with a cover painted by Joel\u2019s then-wife\u00a0<strong>Christie Brinkley<\/strong>, was Billy\u2019s fourth #1 and spent three weeks on top of the chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album&#8217;s title track went on to become a top five hit, Joel&#8217;s last on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The record also featured &#8220;Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel),&#8221; which he wrote as a tribute to his daughter,\u00a0<strong>Alexa Ray<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although Joel hasn\u2019t released a pop album since, he did release a new pop song in 2024. \u201cTurn the Lights Back On\u201d came out in February, and peaked at #62 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 28, 1993\u2026 Billy Joel\u00a0hit #1 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200 Album chart with\u00a0River of Dreams, his final pop\/rock record. The album, with a cover painted by Joel\u2019s then-wife\u00a0Christie Brinkley, was Billy\u2019s fourth #1 and spent three weeks on top of the chart. The album&#8217;s title track went on to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-28-1993-billy-joel-lands-fourth-1-album-with-river-of-dreams\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/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\/30236"}],"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=30236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}