As one of the most successful recording artists of all time, Billy Joel has a long list of much-loved hit songs dating back to the 1970s. And much of his music, as we learn in a new HBO documentary, ...

Billy Joel: And So It Goes reveals the inspiration and process behind certain songs. But it also digs into Joel's alcoholism, multiple marriages and divorces, and his conflicts with fellow musicians.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Billy Joel circa 1980. There is a very touching moment near the end of ...

“I’m doing well – let me screw this up somehow.” From the big hits to the baggage, Billy Joel interprets the arc of his life and career in And So It Goes, a massive two-part documentary airing across ...

Billy Joel fans are protective, passionate, number in the millions, and the object of their devotion occupies a singular place in the pop-music pantheon. One would have to be beyond hardcore, though, ...

The first half of the HBO documentary premiered at the Tribeca Festival on Wednesday night. Joel, who is fighting a brain disorder, sent a message via its directors. By Esther Zuckerman The Tribeca ...

Billy Joel is one of the all-time great pop legends — the piano man who’s kept the world singing along for over fifty years and thousands of Saturday nights. He’s a songwriter with an attic full of ...

Billy Joel performs at "12-12-12" a concert benefiting The Robin Hood Relief Fund to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2012. Staff Writer Billy ...

The new two-part Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max, which is called Billy Joel: And So It Goes, has a five-hour runtime. Do you have five hours to get utterly blasted with Billy Joel’s biographical ...

Fandom, like stardom, invites mythmaking. So I can't be certain I'm right when I say my appreciation of Billy Joel took off somewhere around 1983, at a house where I was babysitting. They had a VHS ...

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Joel foresaw a time of ruin, followed by redemption. “Blow a horn in Zion,” he wrote, describing a locust plague. “Sound an alarm on My holy mount! Let all dwellers on ...