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词条 An Innocent Man
释义

  1. Chart performance

  2. Awards

  3. Background

  4. Track listing

  5. Personnel

  6. Production

  7. Accolades

     Grammy Awards  American Music Awards 

  8. Charts

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts  Decade-end charts  Certifications and sales 

  9. References

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| name = An Innocent Man
| type = studio
| artist = Billy Joel
| cover = BillyJoel AnInnocentMan.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|1983|8|8}}
| recorded = Chelsea Sound and A&R Recording, Inc., New York, NY Spring, 1983
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
  • Pop rock
  • soft rock
  • doo-wop
  • blue-eyed soul

}}
| length = 40:25
| label = Family Productions/Columbia
| producer = Phil Ramone
| prev_title = The Nylon Curtain
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2
| next_year = 1985
| misc = {{Singles
| name = An Innocent Man
| type = studio
| single1 = Tell Her About It
| single1date = July 1983
| single2 = Uptown Girl
| single2date = September 1983
| single3 = An Innocent Man
| single3date = December 1983
| single4 = The Longest Time
| single4date = March 1984
| single5 = Leave a Tender Moment Alone
| single5date = July 1984
| single6 = Keeping the Faith
| single6date = September 1984
| single7 = This Night
| single7date = November 1984
}}
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[1]
| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
| rev2Score = B+[2]
| rev3 = Rolling Stone
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[3]
| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[4]
}}An Innocent Man is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on August 8, 1983. The concept album is a tribute to the American popular music of Joel's adolescent years with Joel paying homage to a number of different popular American musical styles from the late 1950s and early 1960s, most notably doo-wop and soul music.[5] The album cover artwork was taken on the front steps of 142 Mercer Street,[6] just north of the intersection of Mercer and Prince Street in the SoHo neighborhood in New York City.[7]

Chart performance

The album featured three Billboard Top 10 hit singles: "Tell Her About It" (No. 1), "Uptown Girl" (No. 3) and "An Innocent Man" (No. 10). Four other singles were released from the album: "The Longest Time" (No. 14), "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" (No. 27), "Keeping the Faith" (No. 18) and "This Night" (US B-side of "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"). "Tell Her About It" and "Uptown Girl" garnered international success—"Uptown Girl" reached No. 1 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. An Innocent Man remained on the US Pop album chart for 111 weeks, becoming Joel's longest charting studio album behind The Stranger. For over a year, the album remained on the charts in the UK, Japan and Australia.

Awards

Like his three previous efforts, Joel's An Innocent Man received a nomination for the 26th Grammy Award for Album of the Year, although the award went to Michael Jackson's Thriller. The album was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Uptown Girl," but again was beaten by Thriller.

Background

In an interview about the making of the album, Joel talks about the fact that at the time that he was recording An Innocent Man, he was newly divorced from his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, and was single for the first time since achieving rock star status. He had the opportunity to date supermodels like Elle Macpherson and Christie Brinkley, and because of these experiences, he said, "I kind of felt like a teenager all over again." [5] Joel started writing songs in the same styles as pop songs that he remembered from his teenage years, citing pop music from the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "early R&B songs and The Four Seasons, and the Motown music, soul music."

Joel explained, "When you're gonna write [songs for a new album], you write what you're feeling. And I didn't fight it. The material was coming so easily and so quickly, and I was having so much fun doing it. I was kind of reliving my youth. ... I think within 6 weeks I had written most of the material on the album." Joel also said that he was pleasantly surprised to have hit records in the 1980s with retro songs like the mostly a cappella doo wop song "The Longest Time."[5]

Track listing

All songs by Billy Joel, except for the chorus for "This Night," which is credited on the sleeve to L. v. Beethoven.

The track listing on the LP is slightly different from that on the cassette and original CD pressings, with the latter swapping the places of "The Longest Time" and "Uptown Girl" respectively. However, on the actual cassette shell and disc label, the songs are listed (and play) in the correct order as printed on the LP.

{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Easy Money
| note1 = Homage to James Brown and Wilson Pickett[5]
| length1 = 4:04
| title2 = An Innocent Man
| note2 = Homage to Ben E. King and The Drifters
| length2 = 5:17
| title3 = The Longest Time
| note3 = Homage to doo-wop groups like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
| length3 = 3:42
| title4 = This Night
| note4 = Homage to Little Anthony and the Imperials; also to Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathetique sonata
| length4 = 4:17
| title5 = Tell Her About It
| note5 = Homage to Motown groups like The Supremes and The Temptations
| length5 = 3:52
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title6 = Uptown Girl
| note6 = Homage to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons[8]
| length6 = 3:17
| title7 = Careless Talk
| note7 = Homage to Sam Cooke
| length7 = 3:48
| title8 = Christie Lee
| note8 = Homage to Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis
| length8 = 3:31
| title9 = Leave a Tender Moment Alone
| note9 = Homage to Smokey Robinson
| length9 = 3:56
| title10 = Keeping the Faith
| note10 = Homage to Pre-British Invasion Rock n Roll
| length10 = 4:41
}}

Personnel

  • Billy Joel – Baldwin SF-10 acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, lead and background vocals
  • Liberty DeVitto – drums
  • Doug Stegmeyer – bass guitar
  • David Brown – lead electric and acoustic guitars
  • Russell Javors – rhythm electric and acoustic guitars
  • Mark Rivera – alto saxophone on "Keeping the Faith", "This Night" and "Christie Lee"; tenor saxophone, percussion, backing vocals
Additional personnel
  • Ralph MacDonald – percussion on "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" and "Careless Talk"
  • Leon Pendarvis – Hammond B3 organ on "Easy Money"
  • Richard Tee – acoustic piano on "Tell Her About It"
  • Eric Gale – electric guitar on "Easy Money"
  • Toots Thielemans – harmonica on "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"
  • "String Fever" – strings
  • Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone on "Easy Money", "Careless Talk", "Tell Her About It" and "Keeping the Faith"
  • Jon Faddis – trumpet on "Easy Money"
  • David Sanborn – alto saxophone on "Easy Money"
  • Joe Shepley – trumpet on "Easy Money", "Careless Talk", "Tell Her About It" and "Keeping the Faith"
  • Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone on "Careless Talk", "Tell Her About It" and "Keeping the Faith"
  • John Gatchell – trumpet on "Careless Talk", "Tell Her About It" and "Keeping the Faith"
  • Tom Bahler – background vocals
  • Rory Dodd – background vocals
  • Frank Floyd – background vocals
  • Lani Groves – background vocals
  • Ullanda McCullough – background vocals
  • Ron Taylor – background vocals
  • Terry Textor – background vocals
  • Eric Troyer – background vocals
  • Mike Alexander – background vocals

Production

  • Producer: Phil Ramone
  • Engineers: Jim Boyer, Bradshaw Leigh
  • Assistant engineers: Mike Allaire, Scott James
  • Production coordinator: Laura Loncteaux
  • Mastering: Ted Jensen
  • Horn and string arrangements: David Matthews
  • Background vocal arrangements: Tom Bahler
  • Musical advisor: Billy Zampino
  • Photography: Gilles Larrain
  • Cover design: Christopher Austopchuk, Mark Larson
  • Recorded at Chelsea Sound and A & R Recording, Inc., New York, NY
  • Mixed at A & R Recording, Inc., New York, NY
  • Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, NY

Accolades

Grammy Awards

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| width="35" align="center" rowspan="2"|1984 || An Innocent Man || Album of the Year[9] || {{nom}}
|-
|"Uptown Girl" || | Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male[9] || {{nom}}{{End}}

American Music Awards

{{Awards table}}
|-
| style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1983 || Billy Joel (performer) || Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist[10]|| {{nom}}
|-
| "Tell Her About It" || Favorite Pop/Rock Video [10] || {{nom}}
|-{{End}}

Charts

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Weekly charts

Chart (1983–85)Position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[11]3
Canadian Albums (RPM)[12]12
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[13]14
French Albums (SNEP) [14]11
Icelandic Albums (Tonlist)[15]3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[16]3
New Zealand Albums (RIANZ) [17]1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[18]9
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19]39
UK Albums (OCC) [20]2
US Billboard 200[21]4
West German Albums (Media Control)[22]36
{{col-2}}

Year-end charts

Chart (1983)Position
Australian Albums Chart[11]11
Canadian Albums Chart[23]42
Dutch Albums Chart[24]74
French Albums Chart[25]62
Japanese Albums Chart[26]18
UK Albums Chart[27]25
Chart (1984)Position
Australian Albums Chart[11]6
Canadian Albums Chart[28]31
Japanese Albums Chart[29]58
New Zealand Albums Chart[30]1
UK Albums Chart[31]9
US Billboard 200[32]4
Chart (1985)Position
Australian Albums Chart[33]62
US Billboard 200[34]67
{{col-end}}

Decade-end charts

Chart (1980–89)Position
Australian Albums Chart[11]12
UK Albums Chart[35]33

Certifications and sales

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2. ^{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=5078 |chapter=Billy Joel: An Innocent Man |accessdate=May 6, 2015 |title=The '80s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Christgau |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1990 |isbn=0-679-73015-X}}
3. ^{{cite journal |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/billyjoel/albums/album/232195/review/6067984/an_innocent_man |title=Billy Joel: An Innocent Man |work=Rolling Stone |date=August 18, 1983 |accessdate=May 6, 2015 |last=Puterbaugh |first=Parke |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220090721/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/billyjoel/albums/album/232195/review/6067984/an_innocent_man |archivedate=February 20, 2008}}
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