Even the most distinguished career has to start somewhere. For Billy Joel's life as a chart-topping solo artist, that first step started in a Los Angeles piano bar.
One Long Island icon bade farewell to another last night, when Billy Joel closed out Nassau Coliseum with a rollicking set that lasted more than three hours and included special guest Paul Simon.
Last week Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel looped their voices on an iPad app to form a 2-man doo-wop group singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens in 4-part harmony. It. Was. Awesome!
Billy Joel has long taken an interest in educating younger generations of musicians. This runs from his acclaimed Evening of Questions and Answers and a Little Bit of Music series to today’s news that he has given a piano to the music department of Stony Brook University on his native Long Island.
It's been a while since Billy Joel gave his fans any really big news to look forward to, but it looks like he might have something major up his sleeve for 2014.
A new Gap campaign features the children of famous musicians performing their parent's songs. In one, Billy Joel's daughter Alexa Ray Joel does a brief version of his "Just the Way You Are" and in another George Harrison's son Dhani performs "For You Blue".