Which Billy Joel album includes the song 'Uptown Girl'?

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Billy Joel's song “Uptown Girl” appears on his 1983 album An Innocent Man. The track was one of the album's biggest successes and became a defining hit of Joel's 1980s career.

An Innocent Man was Joel's ninth studio album, released on August 8, 1983. He designed the record as a tribute to the doo-wop, soul, Motown, and early pop music he had heard during his youth in the late 1950s and early 1960s. “Uptown Girl” especially drew on the bright vocal style associated with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

The album produced several major singles. “Tell Her About It” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while “Uptown Girl” reached No. 3 in the United States and topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The song's video also became closely associated with Joel's relationship with model Christie Brinkley, who appeared in it.

The title can be confused with Joel's earlier albums Piano Man, The Stranger, and 52nd Street, but none of those contains “Uptown Girl.”

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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