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 ...

Allentown is becoming the city they love to write songs about. Although it’s been nearly two years since Billy Joel’s “Allentown” enshrined the Lehigh Valley’s largest city as the hard ...

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 ...

Joel released four albums before his first Billboard top 10 hit -- "Just the Way You Are" from "The Stranger."A later album, "The Nylon Curtain," featured the song "Allentown." ...

Yet you would be hard-pressed to find a song that addressed the plight of the put-upon laborer better than “Allentown,” Joel’s Top 20 hit from 1982.

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 ...

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 ...