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Billy Joel is back for an encore − but why did he wait so long to turn the lights back on?

  • Written by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
imageJoel performs at New York City's Madison Square Garden in 2015.Myrna Suarez/WireImage via Getty Images

With the flip of a digital switch, Billy Joel fans have their first new song in 17 years, “Turn the Lights Back On.”

It has all the markers of a classic Joel ballad: the rhythm and rolling chords of “She’s Always a Woman,&r...

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