My Lives

My Lives
Box set by Billy Joel
Released	November 22, 2005
Recorded	1965 - 2001
Genre	Rock, classical, pop, psychedelic rock, rock and roll
Length	284:50 (4-CD) 85 Minutes (DVD)
Label	Sony BMG
Billy Joel chronology
Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel (2004) My Lives (2005) 12 Gardens Live (2006)

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My Lives is a box set compilation of demos, outtakes, B-sides, soundtrack cuts, live recordings and album cuts by American singer/songwriter Billy Joel. It was released on November 22, 2005. The album name is derivative of the Billy Joel song "My Life". The liner notes were written by longtime Rolling Stone magazine contributor Anthony DeCurtis.

The 4-CD set is notable for including numerous tracks which had been previously released, but had never been available on an official Billy Joel album, including songs from his days with The Lost Souls, The Hassles, and Attila, various B-sides, and soundtrack contributions such as "Why Should I Worry?", which his character sang in the Disney animated film Oliver & Company. A bonus DVD is also included featuring live performances from River of Dreams Tour.

The cover of the box set was painted by Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, when she was seven years old.^[2]

It was Joel's 20th album to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at #171 in December 2005.

Track listing

There are five discs included in My Lives: four CDs and one DVD. All songs written by Billy Joel, except where noted.

Disc one

1. "My Journey's End" - The Lost Souls (Never-released demo) - 2:07
2. "Time and Time Again" – The Lost Souls (Never-released demo) - 2:00
3. "Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)" - The Hassles (Album version) (William Joel, T. Michaels, V. Gorman) - 2:28
4. "You've Got Me Hummin'" - The Hassles (Album version) (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 2:28
5. "Amplifier Fire (Part 1)" – Attila (Heavily edited) (Joel, Jonathan Small) - 3:06
6. "Only a Man" (Never-released demo) - 3:16
7. "She's Got a Way" (Album version) - 2:56
8. "Oyster Bay" (Never-released demo) - 3:44
9. "Piano Man" (Never-released demo) - 2:52
10. "The Siegfried Line" (Never-released demo) - 2:35
11. "New Mexico" (Never-released demo) (became "Worse Comes to Worst") - 2:37
12. "Cross to Bear" (Never-released demo) - 4:20
13. "Miami 2017" (Never-released demo) - 4:50
14. "These Rhinestone Days" (Never-released demo) (became "I've Loved These Days") - 3:00
15. "Everybody Has a Dream" (Album version) - 4:36
16. "Only the Good Die Young" (Never-released alternate version) - 3:39
17. "Until the Night" (Album version) - 6:38
18. "Zanzibar" (Album version and unfaded) - 6:47
19. "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" (Album version) - 2:58

Disc two

1. "Captain Jack" (Never-released live version) - 7:22
2. "The End of the World" (Never-released demo) (Became "Elvis Presley Blvd.") - 3:22
3. "The Prime of Your Life" (Never-released demo) (Became "The Longest Time") - 3:43
4. "She's Right on Time" (Album version) - 4:14
5. "Elvis Presley Blvd." (B-side of "Allentown") - 3:15
6. "Nobody Knows But Me" (from In Harmony II) - 2:55
7. "An Innocent Man" (Album version) - 5:19
8. "Christie Lee" (Never-released demo) - 4:02
9. "Easy Money" (Album version) - 4:06
10. "And So It Goes" (Never-released demo) - 3:14
11. "I'll Cry Instead" (Live, B-side of "An Innocent Man") (credited John Lennon, Paul McCartney but written by John Lennon) - 2:25
12. "Keeping the Faith" - 4:54 listed as the 12" remix, which originally ran for 5:27
13. "Modern Woman" (Album version) - 3:51
14. "Baby Grand" (Duet with Ray Charles) (Album version) - 4:05
15. "Getting Closer" (Duet with Steve Winwood) (Never-released alternate version) - 5:39
16. "House of Blue Light" (B-side of "We Didn't Start the Fire") - 4:45
17. "Money or Love" (Never-released demo) - 4:02
18. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (Live album version) (Bob Dylan) - 2:54

Disc three

1. "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" (Album version) - 3:45
2. "I Go to Extremes" (Live) - 4:53
3. "Shout" (Live) (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) - 5:50
4. "All Shook Up" (Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack) (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) - 2:09
5. "Heartbreak Hotel" (Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack) (Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley) - 3:21
6. "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination soundtrack) (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) - 3:42
7. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Soundtrack) (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) - 4:02
8. "Motorcycle Song" (Never-released demo) (Became "All About Soul") - 4:19
9. "You Picked a Real Bad Time" (B-side) - 4:56
10. "The River of Dreams" (Never-released alternate version) - 5:49
11. "A Hard Day's Night" (Live) (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:47
12. "Light as the Breeze" (Album version) (Leonard Cohen) - 6:14
13. "To Make You Feel My Love" (Album version) (Dylan) - 3:52
14. "Hey Girl" (Album version) (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 3:57
15. "Why Should I Worry" (Oliver & Company soundtrack) (Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight) - 3:33
16. "Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day?)" (Soundtrack) (Harold Logan, John Patton, Lloyd Price) - 1:58
17. "Highway 61 Revisited" (Never-released demo) (Dylan) - 5:11

Disc four

1. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (Live) - 3:44
2. "You May Be Right" (Duet with Elton John) (Live and never released) - 4:50
3. "Big Shot" (Live) - 4:45
4. "Don't Worry Baby" (Live) (Roger Christian, Brian Wilson) - 3:27
5. "Goodnight Saigon" – Vietnam Veterans Version (Live) - 6:30
6. "Los Angelenos" (Live 1980) - 3:54
7. "New York State of Mind" (Live) - 6:01
8. "Opus 1. Soliloquy (On a Separation)" - 11:22
9. "Opus 8. Suite For Piano (Star-Crossed) I. Innamorato" - 7:46
10. "Opus 8. Suite For Piano (Star-Crossed) II. Sorbetto" - 1:31
11. "Opus 8. Suite For Piano (Star-Crossed) III. Delusion" - 3:35
12. "Elegy: The Great Peconic" - 6:51
13. "Glass Houses Promo Talk" - 9:00

Disc five (DVD)

Live from the River of Dreams Tour:

1. "No Man's Land"
2. "Pressure"
3. "The Ballad of Billy the Kid"
4. "Leningrad"
5. "Allentown"
6. "My Life"
7. "I Go to Extremes"
8. "Shades of Grey"
9. "The River of Dreams"
10. "Goodnight Saigon"
11. "We Didn't Start the Fire"
12. "A Hard Day's Night"
13. "Big Shot"
14. "Piano Man"
15. "I Go to Extremes" - "Umixit" Track
16. "Zanzibar" - "Umixit" Track

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