Big Shot (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Big Shot


Artist = Billy Joel
from Album = 52nd Street
B-side = "Half a Mile Away"
Released = 1979
Format = 7"
Recorded = A & R Recording, Inc., New York City
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:44
Label = Columbia
Writer = Billy Joel
Producer = Phil Ramone
Certification =
Last single = "My Life"
(1978)
This single = "Big Shot"
(1979)
Next single = "Honesty"
(1979)

"Big Shot" was the second hit single from Billy Joel's 1978 album "52nd Street". The song was released in early-1979, just as his other hit single from that same album, "'My Life", was peaking at #3. It would soon become his second top-twenty hit of 1979, peaking at #14.

A rumor that the song was based on a bad date with Bianca Jagger is not true. In an interview in 2006, Billy Joel said, "I read that the song Big Shot is said to be about a date I had with Bianca Jagger. I never had a date with Bianca Jagger." [cite news | url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20736947-1702,00.html | title=Billy Joel back to Aussie basics | author=La Canna, Xavier | date=2006-11-10 | publisher=Australian Associated Press | accessdate=2007-06-18]

ingle and album edits

The only change made in the single version is an abridged outro.

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