Billy Joel: Allentown

In 1982, thematically at least, Billy Joel recorded a Bruce Springsteen-type song, Allentown, a rust belt tale of industrial decline. Musically the tune is vintage Joel.

I particularly enjoy this song for this lyric: "And the union people crawled away."

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