"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" is a hit song written and recorded by Billy Joel. The track details the singer's disgust with the upwardly-mobile bourgeois aspirations of working and lower-middle class New Yorkers who take pride at working long hours in order to afford the outward signs of having "made it". Named characters have stereotypically immigrant or first-generation American names (Anthony, Mama Leone, Sergeant O'Leary) and their jobs are blue-collar. Joel considers their rejection of their working-class roots (trading a Chevy for a Cadillac and buying a house in Hackensack) to be ultimately futile; In the end, the rewards are a "heart attack" or "a broken back" (c.f. Joel's portrayal of himself in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant").

According to Joel, Anthony isn't a real person, but rather "every Irish, Polish, and Mexican kid trying to make a living in the U.S."blank">http://billyjoel.8k.com/thestranger.htm

The song originally appeared on his _1977 album, The Stranger. A live performance of it can be heard on 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert.

"Movin' Out" is a song from Aerosmith's 1973 debut album. Steven Tyler has said that this was the first song they wrote as a band. Joe Perry played a guitar lick while sitting on a waterbed and Steven immediately wrote words to match. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have since written over 85 commercially-released songs together. The song has been played live in concert by the band throughout their entire career, although not as frequently as most songs. It was featured on the live collection Classics Live II and has been performed in concert by the band as recently as the 2000s.