Billy Joel Documentary Filmmakers on Exploring the Life and Music of the Piano Man
The post Billy Joel Documentary Filmmakers on Exploring the Life and Music of the Piano Man appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. From the HBO documentary ‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes.’ credit: Photograph by Courtesy of Art Maillett/Sony Music Archives/HBO There is a very touching moment near the end of Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a new two-part documentary about the famed musician that premieres on HBO this Friday. It shows Joel sitting behind his piano during his long-running 2014-2024 residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden, about to perform his signature song “Piano Man.” But just as he starts to hit the keys, the scene abruptly shifts to footage from 1973 of a 24-year-old Joel playing “Piano Man” on his Columbia Records signing day. It’s a fitting reverse bookend to an extraordinary life and career. “I don’t know what I would’ve been had I not been a musician,” Joel says in the film. “I don’t know where I would’ve been in this life if it had not been for the piano.” At a total of five hours, And So It Goes, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, is truly the definitive documentary about Long Island’s favorite son: from one of his earliest forays into music as a member of the mid-1960s group the Hassles; through his spectacular run as a hitmaker beginning in the late 1970s with such songs as “Movin’ Out,” “Just the Way You Are,” “My Life,” “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, “Tell Her About It,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “The River of Dreams”; to his present status as beloved pop culture icon who can still pack arenas. But the documentary, which previously screened at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, is not hagiography. It candidly addresses the challenging and difficult aspects of Joel’s personal and professional life. Among them: his suicide attempt when he was a young man; his complicated relationship…
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From the HBO documentary ‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes.’ credit: Photograph by Courtesy of Art Maillett/Sony Music Archives/HBO There is a very touching moment near the end of Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a new two-part documentary about the famed musician that premieres on HBO this Friday. It shows Joel sitting behind his piano during his long-running 2014-2024 residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden, about to perform his signature song “Piano Man.” But just as he starts to hit the keys, the scene abruptly shifts to footage from 1973 of a 24-year-old Joel playing “Piano Man” on his Columbia Records signing day. It’s a fitting reverse bookend to an extraordinary life and career. “I don’t know what I would’ve been had I not been a musician,” Joel says in the film. “I don’t know where I would’ve been in this life if it had not been for the piano.” At a total of five hours, And So It Goes, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, is truly the definitive documentary about Long Island’s favorite son: from one of his earliest forays into music as a member of the mid-1960s group the Hassles; through his spectacular run as a hitmaker beginning in the late 1970s with such songs as “Movin’ Out,” “Just the Way You Are,” “My Life,” “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, “Tell Her About It,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “The River of Dreams”; to his present status as beloved pop culture icon who can still pack arenas. But the documentary, which previously screened at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, is not hagiography. It candidly addresses the challenging and difficult aspects of Joel’s personal and professional life. Among them: his suicide attempt when he was a young man; his complicated relationship…
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