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Billy Joel looks back at The Stranger

Short tracks from selected CD releases including Billy Joel, the Mamma Mia soundtrack, Son of Dave and Flobots

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SHE'S GOT A WAY by Billy Joel, from The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Edition (Sony BMG)

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"They're going to have to drag me off this stage." On a bonus CD recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1977, a piano man appreciates a favourite lady, an elegant melody and a prime-time moment. He had a way.






SOS by Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep, from Mamma Mia!: The Movie Soundtrack (Decca)

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The delightful ELO/Tchaikovsky arrangement makes us feel alive - but something died, we fear. The distress signal is for the movie-star voices that gamely try and charmingly fail at the ABBA favourite.






LOW RIDER by Son of Dave, from 03 (Kartel)

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The hippest one-man Britain-based blues band is not Seasick Steve but harmonica-puffing Benjamin Darvil, an ex-Winnipegger whose father was David. A kitchen-sink resourcefulness, a funky street beat and a Sly Stone croak wins the War's classic tune.





HANDLEBARS by Flobots, from Fight With Tools (Universal Republic)

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Children proud of their bicycle talent grow up to progressively more formidable and repercussive abilities. Rap music for miffed white people - not angry blacks - has trumpets, plucked strings and some admiration for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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