The Latest News

RSS Feed
11.08.11

Billy Joel's 'Piano Man' Legacy Edition Gets Great Reviews!

The reviews are coming in for Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Legacy Edition, in stores today, and here are some excerpts about why the Legacy Edition should be considered essential:

"The bottom line? This Sigma Sound show is great, an absolute treasure in the Billy Joel discography and a fascinating all-too-rare portrait of an artist before he was a modern-day legend." - The Second Disc

Read More
11.08.11

'Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection' And 'Piano Man' Legacy Edition Available Now!

Billy Joel's "Piano Man" 2CD Legacy Edition, and "The Complete Albums Collection" limited edition box set, have both been released today! The box set, which is available for a limited time, includes 14 remastered albums and a bonus disc with 17 rare and non-album recordings, plus two 60-page booklets.

The "Piano Man" Legacy Edition includes the original 10-song album, plus a second CD of Billy's previously unreleased 1972 WMMR radio broadcast in Philadelphia. Three songs from WMMR don't appear on any other Billy Joel album -- "Long, Long Time," "Josephine" and "Rosalinda."

In honor of today's releases, MSN Music is featuring Billy Joel videos from "The Complete Albums Collection!" Check out this video below for "Glass Houses."

Read More
11.07.11

'The Last Play At Shea' On Showtime - Watch New Video

Showtime will premiere "The Last Play At Shea" documentary film on its network beginning November 11th, and they've produced this new video below! Be sure to check the reported schedule and Showtime for air times.

Read More
11.07.11

Billy Joel Talks About 'Streetlife Serenade' - The Complete Albums Collection Video

In this exclusive video for Billy Joel - The Complete Albums Collection, Billy discusses the pressure to release another album after "Piano Man." That next album became "Streetlife Serenade," which features songs including "The Entertainer" and "Souvenir."

Read More
11.07.11

Billy Joel Piano Man Legacy Edition - 'Josephine' Song Review

Ultimate Classic Rock has reviewed the song "Josephine" from the new Billy Joel "Piano Man" Legacy Edition, which includes a second CD with a previously unreleased 1972 radio broadcast from WMMR in Philadelphia. Three songs from the WMMR concert -- "Long, Long Time," "Josephine," and "Rosalinda" -- don't appear on any other Billy Joel album. Here is an excerpt from the review:

Read More
11.07.11

Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' To Be Featured On 'Glee' Episode November 8th

"Glee" revisits the Billy Joel catalog on Tuesday, November 8th with a performance of his classic song, "Uptown Girl." Check out this video preview from tomorrow night's episode, which airs at 8/7c on FOX:

Read More
11.07.11

Billy Joel on Songwriting: Ideas From Dreams

"I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning with an idea and think maybe I should write this down but then think, 'Nah, I'm too tired but it's so great I won't forget it.' And I go back to sleep and I wake up later and I think, 'Oh, what was that' -- and it's gone. But not forever. It's not gone from the little mental filing cabinet that we have - it all gets filed away. Later, right in the middle of a conversation it pops back into consciousness and I'll have to go over to the piano and work it out. And that's how I do a lot of writing. It's almost like you didn't have anything to do with it.

Read More
11.04.11

Billy Joel Talks About 'Captain Jack'

"Captain Jack isn't Jack Daniels. I used to live near the projects in Long Island and there were drugs going on and the dealer was called Captain Jack. There was also smack. They used to use the rhyme for smack, Captain Jack. So I didn't mean it to be any specific drug, it's whatever people had to take to escape reality. It was drugs in general. You know I call it a look out the window song. I was just looking out there and seeing all my friends, everybody would just get their brains wasted and fried and I thought it was kind of stupid.

Read More
11.04.11

Billy Joel On 'River Of Dreams'

"I wanted to do again what I liked doing when I was in bands in the sixties, bar bands. Rock and roll bands, biker bar bands, blues biker bar bands. So when I started writing the album, I kind of harkened back to those kinds of sounds, band sounds, bluesy. The album has a lot of things that have that kind of feel to it, that are kind of very rock and roll, late sixties rock."

Read More
11.02.11

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.

Read More
10.26.11

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.

Read More
10.24.11

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.

Read More
Billy Joel NewsletterSubscribe