Billy Joel
28 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 7 August 1993
The Piano Man talks at length about his last album of original material, River of Dreams: about the composition of the songs, the production process, and working with Danny Kortchmar. He also discusses his identity as an artist and his new sense of confidence and legitimacy.
File format: mp3; file size: 54.3mb, interview length: 56' 36" sound quality: ***
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Rock Pianist Gets All Abuse: Joel
Interview by Ian Dove, Billboard, 25 December 1971
NEW YORK — Equipment for amplifying pianos lags "far behind" corresponding equipment for other instruments in the rock field, despite the fact that use of ...
Billy Joel, Janis Ian: Avery Fisher Hall, New York City November 15th, 1974
Live Review by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 19 December 1974
UNLIKE HIS records, Billy Joel in person is a halfway dynamic performer and his largely suburban audience treats him with the reverence accorded any minor ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
THE GRAPEVINE WHISPERS Billy Joel is going to be a superstar. ...
Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, July 1975
IT'S AN AWFUL confession to make, especially in a normally omniscient rag like this, but up until about nine months ago I was almost completely ...
Billy Joel: The Melody Comes Easy
Profile by Jonathan Morrish, Let It Rock, September 1975
Jonathan Morrish surveys the career of Billy Joel, more than just a piano man. ...
Billy Joel: The Miracle of 52nd Street
Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 14 December 1978
NOBODY EVER mistook Billy Joel for a matinee idol. In a world that worships angular, tall, rangy types like Robert De Niro and John Travolta, ...
Billy Joel: Power Behind The Throne
Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, Daily Mail, 22 February 1979
WHAT ROCK'S LATEST SUPERSTAR OWES TO HIS WIFE ...
Billy Joel: Redefining a Rock Star
Profile by Robin Katz, Man About Town, March 1979
The comparisons — and the influences — are obvious. He writes with the directness of Lennon, shares the melodic skill of McCartney, and understands the ...
Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1983
REVENGE OF THE SUBURBS ...
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 7 July 1983
Rock & roll gets in bed with corporate America ...
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 1 October 1983
Piercing fragments from the gutter ...
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 1 October 1983
Piercing fragments from the gutter ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 24 May 1984
HE THINKS HIS SONGS ARE LIKE "BABIES", VIDEOS ARE "A CHORE" AND HE'S WORRIED ABOUT GETTING "COMPUTERISED". SOUNDS LIKE TIME BILLY JOEL HAD A CHAT ...
Billy Joel: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 7 June 1984
IT IS, OF course, too easy to say that once you've seen the video, the real thing can only be a disappointment. Indeed, there were ...
Billy Joel: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 11 July 1987
Bout with an uptown boy: Adam Sweeting on a roistering evening with Billy Joel at Wembley ...
Billy Joel: We All Make Mistakes…
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1987
DOWN THE HALL of the Mayfair hotel, the beautiful star model, Christie Brinkley, she of 1,000 swimsuits on 1,000 glossy covers, and the less beautiful ...
Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Loup Garou: Indian Field Ranch, Montauk LI
Live Review by Gene Santoro, Musician, November 1990
Still Ethnic After All These Years ...
Christie Put The Kid In Billy Joel
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 25 July 1993
POP SUPERSTAR Billy Joel, husband of supermodel Christie Brinkley, sits in his favourite restaurant in the fashionable Hamptons district, east of New York. ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Newsday, 10 August 1993
JOHN SEBASTIAN of the Lovin' Spoonful was all of 22 when he sang, "I think I've come to see myself at last." ...
Billy Joel: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 9 May 1994
BILLY JOEL'S break-up with model Christie Brinkley has received more media coverage than anything he has done since he married her, so it was predictable ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, January 1998
BILLY JOEL on his heavy metal past, the music biz, covers, his heroes and getting free tickets for the Superbowl... ...
Billy Joel: Fantasies and Delusions
Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 8 November 2001
Piano Man lives his classical-music fantasy ...
Book Excerpt by Bill Holdship, 'America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine', 2008
THERE ARE loads of CREEM stories to tell, such as the time I answered the editorial phone and Billy Joel was on the other end, ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, July 2008
IN 1977, BILLY Joel was struggling to catch a break. The Long Island native was approaching 30, and had released four albums to no great ...
Billy Joel's N.Y. State of Mind
Guide by Hank Bordowitz, New York Daily News, 13 July 2008
IT SEEMS FITTING that Billy Joel should play the last concert at Shea Stadium before it meets the wrecking ball. Shea has hosted the most ...
School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008
"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...
12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...
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