Liberty Devitto just kills it with his drumming on that one.
Yep! LD certainly added dynamics and, on videos, he looked like a wild man...not unlike Keith Moon who I saw in Cincinnati on the Who tour before their Cincy “Death Concert”.
The late, great Phil Ramone produced & engineered “The Stranger” - his first for Billy Joel. The sound quality was VERY good and typical of his engineering.
He also received a Grammy for producing Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy...”.