Song · Billy Joel
“All For Leyna” by Billy Joel
From the album Glass Houses (1980)
“All For Leyna” by Billy Joel appears on 5 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 1980 on the album Glass Houses. Its best result is #515 on the Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,905 classic rock song of all time.
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"All for Leyna" comes off Glass Houses, Billy Joel's 1980 album, and it's Joel at his most wound-up: the tale of a guy who spends one night with a girl named Leyna and can't shake her afterwards, obsession turning the screws. Phil Ramone produced, with David Brown and Russell Javors on guitars, Doug Stegmeyer on bass, Liberty DeVitto on drums and Richie Cannata on organ, sax and flute.
Britain took it as a single and sent it to 40 on the UK chart. The performance video, shot in the studio with Joel and his band, shows him hammering a Yamaha CP-80 electric grand and an Oberheim OB-X synth, and he sang a fresh vocal for it over the same backing track.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 515 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 632 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 819 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 887 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 834 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
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