Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If a musician’s legacy can be judged by which of his peers are willing to show up and sing his praises in a documentary about him, ...

There are few artists who can paint a picture with words, but Billy Joel is one of them. I can remember hearing "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" for the first time like it was yesterday. I was ...

Billy Joel has said that We Didn’t Start the Fire, one of his biggest hits, is also the song he considers his worst track ...

NEW YORK – Billy Joel describes "And So It Goes" as his most definitive song. Fitting, then, that the sparse, pensive piano ballad that was never a huge hit but embodies Joel's world-weary vibe would ...

Any mayor of New York City ought to know the basics of Billy Joel. To help candidate Zohran Mamdani, who recently revealed his total unfamiliarity with Joel's 1976 anthem “New York State of Mind,” we ...

A friend of mine recently told me something that’s stayed with me for the last several weeks. We were talking about music and how much of a role it plays in our everday lives. He said that within 15 ...

The Piano Man is about to get a tribute on a grand scale from a group of Broadway talents. "The Billy Joel Project," a new music collection featuring 24 of the Hicksville native's songs as interpreted ...

If a musician’s legacy can be judged by which of his peers are willing to show up and sing his praises in a documentary about him, consider Billy Joel’s in good standing: Among the A-listers in HBO’s ...