Billy Joel is returning to the road this month to play a few festival gigs after a three-year absence. "I'm putting my toe back into the water to see how performing feels," he tells Rolling Stone. "That doesn't mean I'm going to walk away right after if I don't like how they go, but if I do like how they go, I'll probably end up booking some more gigs. I don't know if I'll go an extended tour like Bruce Springsteen, hammering away for two years, though."

I first met Phil Ramone when I played Carnegie Hall in 1976. It was my first time headlining there. There used to be an Italian restaurant across the street called Fontana di Trevi where a lot of the classical musicians and opera stars from Carnegie Hall would dine. I had dinner with Phil there, and it really was the inspiration for "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant."

Monday night's episode of "How I Met Your Mother" on CBS featured the character Ted imagining future versions of himself while coping with being alone and deciding whether to go to a Legendary Robots vs Wrestlers fight. The episode ends with Ted admitting he would have rather gone to meet his future wife.

This week on "Smash," we saw Veronica Moore rehearsing her televised one-night-only concert that's directed by Derek, only it's going badly. Veronica's signature song isn't working, and her "momager" is on the hunt for a new song. Everybody's mad. Ronnie's mad because she has a controlling mom and she can't be sexy. Kyle is mad because Jimmy has flown the coop. To make everything better, they sing the Billy Joel song "Everybody Loves You Now" found on Billy's Cold Spring Harbor album.

Autoevolution is featuring one of Billy's motorcycles, a custom Yamaha Virago 1100, baptized Vinago. The bike was commissioned by Billy to Greg Hageman of Doc's Chops, and represents the quintessence of Billy's love for motorcycles: as mellow as his music, without lacking the force and by all means, hard to forget.