Allentown is over its Billy Joel song Forty years after singer Billy Joel's song "Allentown" put Allentown, Pa., on every pop station, city leaders say they're ready to move on.

This Billy Joel track is a picture of American life in the 1980s as the concept of the 'American Dream' clashed with the ...

A single of Billy Joel's "Allentown" hangs on display in the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in the city. The song released in September 1982 memorialized a depressed time as the economy ...

Billy Corgan, front man for the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, headlined a cloudy night Tuesday in Allentown — becoming the ...

Shapiro also gave a callout to singer Billy Joel. "I think Billy Joel owes us a new 'Allentown' song – 'Allentown 2.0.' I'm sick and tired of hearing that old song.

But Allentown's current mayor, Matt Tuerk, doesn't think the song has much relevance anymore. "It's so wrong. I don't know how it felt in 1982, but it doesn't feel like that now," Tuerk recently ...

A musician called “the future of country music” by Billboard is the first headliner to be announced for the 2025 Great Allentown Fair. Kane Brown will perform on Friday, Aug. 29. Brown’s ...

The song was more particularly about neighboring Bethlehem Steel, which went into a severe decline during the '70s and '80s, affecting Allentown enormously. The company declared bankruptcy in 2001 ...

Forty years ago, Billy Joel's hit song "Allentown" fell off the charts after almost five months on the Billboard 100, and it left a legacy. The city of Allentown, Pa., became a symbol of the Rust ...

Forty years ago, Billy Joel's hit song "Allentown" fell off the charts after almost five months on the Billboard 100, and it left a legacy. The city of Allentown, Pa., became a symbol of the Rust ...

Forty years ago, Billy Joel's hit song "Allentown" fell off the charts after almost five months on the Billboard 100, and it left a legacy. The city of Allentown, Pa., became a symbol of the Rust ...

Forty years ago, Billy Joel's hit song "Allentown" fell off the charts after almost five months on the Billboard 100, and it left a legacy. The city of Allentown, Pa., became a symbol of the Rust ...