| "I've Loved These Days" | ||||
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| Single by Billy Joel | ||||
| from the album Turnstiles | ||||
| B-side | "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" | |||
| Released | October 1976 | |||
| Length | 4:31 3:40 (single) | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Billy Joel | |||
| Producer(s) | Billy Joel | |||
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"I've Loved These Days" is a song written and performed by Billy Joel from his fourth studio album Turnstiles (1976). It was released as the album's second single in October 1976, backed with "Say Goodbye to Hollywood".[1] American Songwriter has described the song as "essentially one man's farewell to a lifestyle that is as alluring as it is unsustainable", while also drawing a connection between its theme and Joel's real-life move from Los Angeles to New York during the creation of the Turnstiles album.[2] An early version of the song with different lyrics was called "These Rhinestone Days".[3][4]
"I've Loved These Days" serves as the closing track on the live album Songs in the Attic (1981), while the "These Rhinestone Days" demo was included in the box set My Lives (2005).[3]
- ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-86241-541-9. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ Beviglia, Jim (16 December 2012). "Billy Joel, "I've Loved These Days"". American Songwriter. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ a b Billy Joel (22 November 2005). My Lives (liner notes).
- ^ Bielen, Ken (2011). The Words and Music of Billy Joel. Praeger. pp. 38–39. ISBN 9780313380167.