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The video for \"Turn the Lights Back On\" was co-directed by Freddy Wexler, who also produced the song and co-wrote it with Joel, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector.

Since the song was released earlier this month, Joel has returned to the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts — as an artist, not just a writer — for the first time since 1998.

Joel also performed his new song at the Grammys earlier this month.

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