LOS ANGELES — Grammy Award-winning music artist Billy Joel is dropping a new single next month, his first in more than a decade.
His latest single "Turn the Lights Back On" comes out on Feb. 1, the 74-year-old singer announced on social media. The "Piano Man" singer teased the new song with a short video of himself playing soft music on a piano.
Joel hinted at possible new music during a performance in December, which was shared to his TikTok account.
Joel’s last single, “All My Life,” was released in 2007.
Joel announced last year that he will conclude his Madison Square Garden residency in July 2024 with his 150th lifetime performance at the venue.
The record-breaking residency began in January 2014 with Joel playing one show every month at the Garden for, as he said at the time, “as long as the demand continues.”
In January 2015, Joel broke his own record of the “most consecutive performances by any artist” with the 13th show of the residency and a new banner was raised to the Garden’s rafters.
In July 2015, with his 65th lifetime show, Joel broke another record for the “most lifetime performances by any artist,” for which another banner was raised. Both of Joel’s banners continue to hang at the Garden.
Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits, including three No. 1s — “It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “Tell Her About It” — and four No. 1 albums — “52nd Street,” “Glass Houses,” “Storm Front” and “River of Dreams.”
He won six Grammys (with 23 nominations) — as well as a Grammy Legend Award in 1990 — as well as being inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992.
As a singer, songwriter and composer, Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo artist, with over 160 million records sold worldwide.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
