Music Album Review: 'Billy Joel: Концерт (Concert)'
On October 26, 1987, Columbia Records released Billy Joel's second live album, Концерt, which is Russian for "Concert." Recorded during his six-performance gigs in Moscow and Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg), Концерт was the first American rock-and-roll album ever recorded in the then-Soviet Union. In its original 1987 version - Columbia re-released it in 2014 as an expanded album titled A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia - Концерt is a 16-track recording released as a double-LP vinyl set, a double-length cassette, and on compact disc. It presents one Russian song ( Odoya ), 13 songs from various Billy Joel albums, including 52nd Street, An Innocent Man, and his then-current The Bridge, which Joel was promoting in his "The Bridge Tour." Концерт also includes two covers: The Beatles' Back to the USSR , and Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' . Track List: 1. Odoya : Performer – Zhournalist: 1:17 2. Angry ...