Billy Joel - The Stranger album cover - Digital fine art photo print

Open-edition digital fine art photo print. 9.5”w x 9.5”h image size (11”w x 14”h overall print size), printed to meet museum and gallery quality standards using premium, fiber-based archival paper. Embossed in the margin by the publisher, Icon Collectibles (a Sony Music company). Includes a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Glenn Korman, V.P. of the Sony Archives.

PLEASE NOTE - A fine art print of a 12-image proof sheet from photographer Jim Haughton's cover shoot for this album cover is also available - please click here to see that item. Also available - a fine art print reproduction of the actual album cover (approx. 19" square).

Photographer Jim Haughton's iconic cover portrait of Billy is as psychologically and emotionally complex as the songs - both, unforgettably rich with symbolism and innuendo. "We all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone," sings Billy on the album's title track.

Released in September 1977, The Stranger was Billy Joel's fifth studio album and first to hit the Top 10. The success generated by four charting singles - "Just The Way You Are" (#1), "Movin Out/Anthony's Song" (#40), "She's Always a Woman" (#17) and "Only The Good Die Young" (#24) - launched Joel into the "superstar" category and landed him two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year (for "Just The Way You Are").