Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Billy Joel has been a major touring force for many years, which ...

Billy Joel turns 77, and a fan ranks his ten greatest songs, skipping "Piano Man" in favor of deep cuts, rockers, and timeless New York anthems.

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you unfamiliar, Cold Spring Harbor is Joel’s 1971 debut solo album, and it features early tracks such as “Tomorrow Is Today”, “She’s Got A Way”, “Everybody Loves You Now”, and “Turn ...

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 ...

Billy Joel is opening up about what he really thinks of The BeatlesWhite Album. In an interview with Bill Maher for his Club Random podcast on Monday, July 21, the "Vienna" musician reflected on the ...

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 Makes Bold Statements Dragging the Beatles' 'White Album' originally appeared on Parade. Rock icon Billy Joel is a total music legend — but it turns out that he doesn’t exactly share that ...

A biopic on Billy Joel's early years titled 'Billy and Me,' told from the viewpoint of his early manager, is on the way from ...