Billy Joel Shares Live Performance of ‘Piano Man’ From 1975 TV Appearance
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Billy Joel shares live performance of ‘Piano Man’ from 1975 TV appearance
Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images Billy Joel recently announced that he was planning to release some archival rarities that were discovered during the making of his HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, and now he’s debuted his first clip. The rocker shared a video of a May 16, 1975, performance of his now signature tune “Piano Man,” from the British television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test. “This next song is a true story,” a mustach…
It’s still rock ’n’ roll to him: HBO Max’s Billy Joel two-parter is one of the best music documentaries ever made
The great Billy Joel finally gets a worthy documentary, a five-hour, two-parter in which he, and a lot of figures in his life, participate fully. In Billy Joel: And So It Goes, directors Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin cover the entire life of Joel—and I mean the whole thing, warts and all, from his troubled younger years in Hicksville, N.Y. (when he dabbled in boxing alongside his musical career), through his early bands like the infamous Attila, …
After the release of the second part of Billy Joel's documentary And So It Goes, Piano Man released a complementary album of 155 songs on digital platforms, including unpublished recordings and more. Never before heard music from Joel's archives splashes HBO's five-hour documentary, from its beginnings with Long Island rockers, The Hassles, to its orchestral and instrumental works.
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