How Billy Joel Classic 'Big Shot' Was Inspired by Mick Jagger

"Big Shot" by Billy Joel was inspired by a well-known musician. The Piano Man wrote the 1978 song with the Stones' frontman, ...
Variety

‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes’ Review: The Tribeca Festival Opens with a Luscious Longform Documentary That Captures Just the Way He Is

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 ...

Elizabeth Weber, Billy Joel’s First Wife and Ex-Manager, Tells Why She Spoke Up in HBO Doc After 43 Years of Silence — Becoming One of the Year’s Most Captivating …

And So It Goes,” this year’s acclaimed two-part HBO documentary about the pop superstar, Elizabeth Weber says that she was ...
Houston Public Media

I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary

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 ...
Yardbarker

20 albums that defined New York City in the 1970s

Billy Joel's 1977 magnum opus, "The Stranger," is hailed by many as an album that defined the New York experience with its sound. But Joel wasn't the only sound in town at the time, as the City that ...