r/45rpmRecords

7" 45rpm. 2017 Riot Style. Cocaine white. Came with a window decal, and a Marvel Arch-Enemies Avengers Vs. Ultron trading card #114.

BEHOLD!! Lol. So, some time ago I saw someone post on here that they collected Billy Joel ‘45s.

Going through a few I had, I went down a rabbit hole that had me seeing how many 45s the Piano Man had across the world with different unique sleeves and wow are there plenty! Some are ridiculously rare and a few are even EPs.

My collection started with USA releases but then looking for songs such as “Piano Man” , “James”, “Vienna”, She’s Right on Time”, and “NY State of Mind (up until a week ago) those songs and others had international releases with unique picture sleeves compared to just the Columbia company sleeves here.

I know different countries released a song on different sleeves but I didn’t feel like having to collect 8 different releases of “Honesty” from Japan, US, UK, etc. so I just settle with what one I thought looked best IMO.

Pictured is my collection which I’ve put as close to release order starting with the Cold Spring Harbor releases all the way to River of Dreams and Billy’s latest single “Turn the Lights Back On.”

I’m sure there’s a few more out there I could still track down but there’s 62 here!

You may be right, I may be crazy, but I might just be the fool you’re looking for when you have a question about Billy Joel ‘45s lol.

Thanks for the music Billy Joel. :-)

This shelf alone spans roughly 30 years of Jamaican music history, from ska to rocksteady to roots reggae. From Alton Ellis to Bob Marley, and from beloved classics to super rare treasures like Haile Selassie Is the Chapel, these records tell the story of a culture, a sound, and an era.

What makes this archive even more extraordinary is that Roger did not just collect the records. He met the artists, interviewed them, and gathered the stories behind the music so he could preserve the full picture beyond the song.

For collectors, a 45 is never just a record. It is history in your hands. A label. A pressing. A version. A moment in time that somehow survived.

And this is only one shelf.

That is what makes Roger’s archive so special. It is not just a collection. It is a living map of reggae’s journey, preserved one record at a time.

History Lives in the Groove.