Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
Song by Billy Joel
from the album The Stranger
ReleasedSeptember 1977
RecordedA & R Recording, New York City
Genre
Length7:37
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Billy Joel
Producer(s)Phil Ramone
Music video
"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" on YouTube

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger.

It has been described as "a characteristic Joel observation on New York life."[2] In 2021, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the 324th[3] greatest song of all time. The song was also described as "a seven-minute epic"[4] by American Songwriter.

  1. ^ "The Stranger by Billy Joel | Classic Rock Review". February 26, 2012.
  2. ^ Best-selling Albums of All Time. New York: Metro Books. 2015. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9781435161146 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". September 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Scott, Jason (June 23, 2020). "Behind The Song: Billy Joel, "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"".