"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Billy Joel reached the upper echelons of wealth and celebrity through his iconic music, but the singer ...

Part 1 of HBO's two-part documentary traces Joel's life and career through 1980, testifying to the contradictions that fueled his incandescent pop. “Piano Man,” for instance, emerged from the ...

When Billy Joel was putting together his 1977 album The Stranger, there was one song he wasn’t sure about releasing. In the studio, he got some sage advice and ended up including the track on the ...

When it was announced that this year's Tribeca Festival would open with the premiere of the HBO documentary "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," I assumed, as a fan of Billy Joel and pop documentaries (which ...