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Joel, a five-time GRAMMY winner and 23-time nominee, last performed at the GRAMMYs in 2002, taking the stage alongside Tony Bennett for a duet of "New York State of Mind." While on the red carpet with his wife, Alexis Roderick, and his three daughters -- Alexa Ray Joel, 38, wh...
The short answer is that Joel lost interest in putting out new music. And since he has enough hits to tour forever and draw enormous crowds, he had little incentive. “I still write music,”he toldRolling Stonein 2019.“I just don’t record it, and they’re not in song form. It’s...
December 2013, Madison Square Garden announced Billy Joel as the first-ever music franchise of “The World’s Most Famous Arena.” Joining the ranks of The Garden’s other original franchises – including the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty – Billy Joel kicked off this franchise at The...
More than 50 years into his career, Billy Joel airs a concert on a broadcast network for the first time. The CBS special is April 14. Stream it free.
Joel says that the idea for the song came to him just after he'd turned 40. He was in the studio talking to a young adult who was talking about how tough the late '80s were for people his age. Telling Joel, "You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened...
In the five years since, Joel has sold an astounding 26,000,000 record albums, has received innumerable honors from the music industry, including five Grammys, and Playboy readers selected him as their favorite composer for two years, as their favorite vocalist for three years and as their ...
Billy Joel's greatest album also happens to be the smash breakthrough hit that transformed a brilliant schlub from Hicksville into a worldwide musical sensation. Six weeks at No. 2 on the chart, two Grammy awards for "Just the Way You Are" (Record of the Year and Song of the Year), ...
Streetlife Serenade, Billy Joel’s third studio album, was originally released on October 11, 1974 and marked the first time Billy deployed synthesizers on a record. His live shows from the period often featured the instrumental, “Root Beer Rag” and the short song, “Souvenir,” was a fre...