Shameless (Billy Joel song)

"Shameless"
Single by Billy Joel
from the album Storm Front
B-side	"Stormfront (live)"
Released	January 1991
Recorded	1988–89
Genre	Rock new wave
Length	4:26
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Mick Jones
Billy Joel singles chronology
"And So It Goes" (1990) "Shameless" (1991) "All Shook Up" (1992)

"Shameless"
Single by Garth Brooks
from the album Ropin' the Wind
B-side	"The Dance"/"Rodeo"/"The Thunder Rolls"
Released	October 21, 1991
Studio	Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country country rock
Length	4:20
Label	Liberty
Songwriter(s)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks singles chronology
"Rodeo" (1991) "Shameless" (1991) "What She's Doing Now" (1991)

"Shameless" is a song written by American singer Billy Joel and recorded on his 1989 album Storm Front. His version peaked at No. 40 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. Two years later, the song was covered by country music artist Garth Brooks on his third studio album, 1991's Ropin' the Wind. Brooks' rendering of the song was his seventh No. 1 hit on the Billboard country charts in late 1991. It also reached No. 71 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 1993, on stage in Boston, Joel introduced the song by saying, "I want[ed] to write a song, like a Jimi Hendrix song, you know. Back in the sixties, he was one of my idols, Jimi Hendrix."^[1] Joel also mentioned the Hendrix inspiration at a talk in Nuremberg, in 1995.^[2]