‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history

‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history

In the second installment of And So It Goes, HBO’s new two-part documentary about Billy Joel, the Piano Man explains why he wore a yellow Star of David in August 2017, during his residency at Madison Square Garden, in his most extensive filmed account of his family’s experience in the Holocaust. “I was angry,” Joel, who wore the star on his jacket in the aftermath of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, said in Susan Lacey and Jessica L…