While Billy Joel and Don Henley always came from different parts of the country, they could find common ground with the right ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Following the premiere of HBO’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the ...

In most cases, the start of a career is crucial to long-term musical success. Mess up that opportunity and it’s difficult to right the ship and grab the public’s attention when they’ve moved on to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Billy Joel’s 2025 hasn’t gone exactly as planned. The piano man was ...

I heard my first Billy Joel album at 12 or 13 and instantly became a fan—more than a fan really. I owned all his studio albums and listened to them countless times. I was fascinated that he played in ...

Billy Joel earned a reputation as one of the finest singles acts of his era. But you could also count on Billy Joel to give you albums that stood out as outstanding listens from start to finish. We ...

One of the most cogent pieces of pop music analysis in recent memory is not an essay, or a review, or a magazine cover story, but a 2023 tweet from writer Matthew Perpetua, who broke Billy Joel's ...

Billy Joel may be known as the Piano Man, but he's really a relationship guy. Or at least he aspired to be that guy. "The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well—when I ...

Billy Joel has branded The White Album by The Beatles a "collection of half-a--ed songs". The Piano Man was clearly not a fan of the legendary rock band's 1968 self-titled double album - which ...