Ko te Stranger he angitu nui, e wha nga Top-25 i runga i nga papaanga Billboard: "Just the Way You Are" (# 3), "Movin' Out" (# 17), "Only the Good Die Young" (# 24), me "She's Always a Woman" (# 17). Ko te album tuatahi a Joel Top Ten, The Stranger i whakamanahia he maha-platinum ka eke ki te nama e rua i runga i nga papa, i hokona atu i te Bridge Bridge o Simon & Garfunkel mo te Troubled Water, te pukaemi tino pai a Columbia. I whakaatuhia hoki e te Stranger "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", he papa papa-a-papa kua riro hei tetahi o ana waiata tino rongonui.
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