Billy Joel almost didn't include "Just The Way You Are" on his 1977 album 'The Stranger', which became a commercial hit.

Billy Joel was married to his ex-wife Elizabeth Weber from 1973 to 1982. Here’s everything to know about Billy Joel’s first wife.

Part 1 of HBO's two-part documentary traces Joel's life and career through 1980, testifying to the contradictions that fueled his incandescent pop. “Piano Man,” for instance, emerged from the ...

When it was announced that this year’s Tribeca Festival would open with the premiere of the HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” I assumed, as a fan of Billy Joel and pop ...

After recording "The Stranger" in 1977, Joel and Weber sat in a room full of record label suits only to be told "It's nice," but the execs couldn't identify an obvious hit single among the album ...

Ripp produced Joel’s first album, “Cold Spring Harbor” (1971), which led off with “She’s Got a Way” (quite a first solo track), but to make sure that the songs fit a radio format, Ripp ...

The film met a receptive audience that loudly cheered or applauded whenever the on-screen Joel notched a landmark album ("Turnstiles," "The Stranger") or scored a career victory (two Grammys for ...

In fact, it was the NYU alum who pushed Billy to choose the 1977 'mushy' ballad as the second single off his fifth studio album The Stranger - which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, won him ...

Billy Joel, now seriously ill ... When he experienced life-changing fame with the 1977 smash album “The Stranger,” he found himself mocked for being too popular, ...

As the documentary captures, Billy Joel arrived as a romantic pop star who was also a pugnacious fighter. You hear that duality in an astounding anecdote he relates about what happened after the ...