“A Matter Of Trust” by Billy Joel

Billy Joel traded the piano bench for an electric guitar on "A Matter of Trust", the second single off his 1986 album The Bridge, and the switch gives it a rock-and-roll bite you won't find in the soft-rock balladeer most people picture. He still plays piano on it, with Liberty DeVitto on drums and Doug Stegmeyer on bass; Phil Ramone produced and Jim Boyer engineered.

It went top ten, then found a second life in the Soviet Union, where state television pushed Joel's songs ahead of his 1987 concerts there, the shows later issued as Kohuept. Russell Mulcahy shot the video in an East Village basement on St. Mark's Place: a crowd gathers at the windows, a woman on a fire escape hollers at them to shut up, and Christie Brinkley, then Joel's wife, holds their baby daughter Alexa.

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