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New Billy Joel Q&A - When You're Writing A Song, Do You Have Any Specific Routine?

During Billy Joel's worldwide Storm Front Tour, he returned to Australia, and squeezed in a lecture at the Melbourne Music Festival, offering up an evening of Questions and Answers and A Little Music. The questions ran the gamut, and the video below covers how a writer gets into the mood to write, offering insight into Billy's writing process. How do you start a song? Where does it begin? Watch Billy's answer and check out additional videos from our Questions & Answers lecture series.

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New Billy Joel Q&A - Do You Feel That Musical Talent Is Something That You Are Either Born With Or Not?

Is musical talent something that you are born with or something you can learn? Is it something passed along in the genes or something that can be nurtured by a good teacher, parental wishes, and accomplished by hard work? Billy Joel was asked this question during a session recorded by A&E's cameras live at Irvine Auditorium, on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia on November 6, 2001.

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Billy Joel Discusses 'Piano Man' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

In the new video below for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, Billy talks about the album "Piano Man," which was written after he spent six months working in a piano bar in Los Angeles. The title track became popular on radio stations.

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Billy Joel Talks About 'Turnstiles' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

The next video for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection covers the album "Turnstiles." Billy talks about returning to New York, the album's famous cover art, and how the songs on "Turnstiles" focus on the city.

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Billy Joel Discusses 'Songs In The Attic' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

In the latest interview video for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, Billy talks about "Songs In The Attic," his first live album. The album was "a good opportunity to do a live recording of the older stuff that I never really liked the way it was recorded." Watch what Billy has to say in the video below!

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Billy Joel Talks About 'Storm Front' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

Billy Joel discusses the album "Storm Front" in this new interview clip for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection. The album was written during a period of turmoil in Billy's life, which he said "made for good material. This was trauma. This was drama. That's why the album ended up being called 'Storm Front.'"

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New Billy Joel Q&A - Alex Joel Asks For One More Song

We conclude our Nuremberg Questions & Answers series with a request by Alex Joel for one more song to close the evening. Billy sifts through the pages of his alphabetized "Song Bible" and chooses to perform "Vienna" for his father. "Vienna" appears on The Stranger album, and was inspired by a trip Billy made to Vienna to meet his father in the mid 1970s.

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Billy Joel Discusses 'The Nylon Curtain' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

In a new interview for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, Billy talks about writing and recording his album "The Nylon Curtain" and why he thinks it may be his best recorded effort. You can watch in the video below! He talks about the work required to put the album together, the album's point of view, and how it suited the time period in which it was released.

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Billy Joel To Be Featured In 'The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live'

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Time Life have partnered to release new DVD and CD sets featuring performances from past Rock Hall ceremonies. The first, "The Best of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live," will go on sale Nov. 1. The three-CD collection will feature performances by Billy Joel, Jimmy Page, Lynryd Skynryd, Al Green, Aerosmith, The Who and James Brown among others.

The second Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live installment will feature a 10-volume digital collection of induction performances recorded between 1986 and 2009.

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Billy Joel: 'I'm Amazed They're Still Playing This Stuff'

In an interview published by Zap2it.com, Billy Joel discusses the upcoming release of "Billy Joel: The Complete Albums Collection" and the Legacy Edition of "Piano Man" on November 8th. "I've wanted them to put together all the original albums in a set for a long time," he said. "They've been kind of spoon-feeding people a drip of an album here, a remixed or remastered album there, live stuff, greatest-hits packages and so on. To me, the state of the art is the original album I made.

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New Billy Joel Q&A - Billy Asks His Father, Howard Joel, To Join Him On Stage

Billy proposes question #15 in our Nuremberg series, asking his father, Howard Joel, to join him on stage in an impromptu performance of George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm.” Please enjoy this very unique family reunion. You can watch this and other videos in our Billy Joel "Questions & Answers" lecture series.

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'The Last Play At Shea' To Premiere On Showtime November 11th!

THE LAST PLAY AT SHEA RECEIVES ITS TELEVISION PREMIERE ON SHOWTIME, NOVEMBER 11TH AT 9:30 PM ET/PT

Friday, November 11th at 9:30 PM ET/PT

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