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Hear Billy Joel’s ‘Turn the Lights Back On,’ His First Song in 17 Years

Billy Joel shared his new song "Turn the Lights Back On," which he wrote with Justin Bieber/Kanye West collaborator Freddy Wexler.

Produced by Freddy Wexler, who has worked with everyone from Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez to Celine Dion and Kanye West, the song is a tender love ballad that doubles as a message to fans that have waited all these years for new material. Joel’s last shared new music back in 2007 when he released the love song “All My Life” as a Valentine’s Day gift to his then-wife Katie Lee, and the protest tune “Christmas in Fallujah.” His last album was 1993’s River of Dreams. “I have a lot of music that no one’s ever heard and no one may ever hear if I don’t decide to do something with it,” Joel told Rolling Stone in 2019.

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