When Joel met his first wife-to-be, Elizabeth Weber, her last name was Small — and it’s not just a coincidence that she shared the same last name as his then-best friend and bandmate Jon Small.

Forgiveness is complicated. And so is self-examination. But Billy Joel, who has an inherent likability, and his loved ones seem to be well-practiced in the art of both.

Billy Joel recalls feeling 'like a homewrecker' after he began dating his best friend’s wife: 'I felt very, very guilty’ The "Piano Man" singer said he got "punched in the nose, which I deserved," ...

Or his 1973 track “You’re My Home,” a romantic ode to his first wife, Elizabeth Weber. Through a catalog of more than 120 songs, Joel, 76, has made expressing himself through music his forte.

Small was the first husband of Joel’s first wife, Elizabeth Weber, and the father of Sean Weber-Small, who would become Joel’s stepson.

In the first installment of his two-part HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the 76-year-old “Vienna” singer explained that he fell for his future-wife Elizabeth Weber while she was still ...

According to Elizabeth Weber, by the way, when they broke up professionally and personally in the early '80s, Joel insisted on hiring her brother Frank as his next manager, which she advised against.

In a harrowing scene from the new HBO Billy Joel documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the famed singer-songwriter opens about a dark time in his life when he felt so depressed, so helpless ...

Billy Joel likes to let his music do the talking. Take, for example, “Vienna,” a song about the legendary rocker’s complicated relationship with his late father Howard. Or his 1973 track “You’re My ...