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Billy Joel

July 2024

  • Billy Joel in New York on 7 December 1977.

    ‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna

    The nearly 50-year-old song has been adopted by the under-30s to describe their particular feelings of ennui

April 2024

  • Damon Albarn on stage at Coachella in California

    Tantrums of the rich and famous: nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur

    This week, Damon Albarn took umbrage at a Coachella crowd who failed to sing along. But he is far from the worst offender

February 2024

  • Taylor Swift at the 2023 Grammy awards – this year she hopes to add to her 12 previous wins.

    Grammys set to celebrate female musicians as Taylor Swift eyes a record-breaking win

    SZA tops the nominations with nine, but Swift’s pop-cultural heft could net her an unprecedented fourth win for album of the year

January 2024

  • Billy Joel performing in Melbourne in 2022.

    Billy Joel to return with only his second new solo song since 1993

    Turn the Lights Back On will be released on 1 February, and is described as ‘ushering in the next chapter of his story’

August 2023

  • mccartney cheers while holding bass

    ‘Paul McCartney winked right at me’: the fans who buy nosebleed seats – and get whisked to the front

    Billy Joel and Coldplay are among other legends who want their biggest devotees at the front

July 2023

  • Billy Joel playing the piano on stage at Hyde Park.

    Billy Joel review – from unhip megastar to precision-tooled entertainment machine

    The older, wiser piano man offers up a generous performance of Motown, doo-wop, Tin Pan Alley and, of course, those beautiful ballads

June 2023

  • US-ENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC-POLITICS-ADAMS-JOEL<br>Singer Billy Joel announces the end of his residency at Madison Square Garden in 2024 during a press conference on June 1, 2023, in New York. Joel has a record-breaking residency at Madison Square Garden, where he currently holds the record for "Most Lifetime Performances By Any Artist" and "Most Consecutive Performances By Any Artist". (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Billy Joel to end Madison Square Garden residency in 2024

    Singer-songwriter says he is ‘kind of flabbergasted it lasted as long as it did’ after performing in New York City once a month for the past decade

December 2022

  • ‘It’s all great fun, and it’s all precisely what you’d expect’ … Billy Joel on stage at the MCG in Melbourne.

    Billy Joel review – Seasoned showman delivers timeless classics and signature dead-pan banter

    With decades of songs to choose from, the 73-year-old delivers signature dead-pan banter among and hit after hit to a willing, sold-out crowd

June 2017

  • Billy Joel, taken for Blender magazine in 2001.

    My best shot
    Chris Buck's best photograph: Billy Joel in the dark with an Applause sign

    ‘Billy said, “I’ll do this – but I’m not one who performs because of an urgent need for approval”’

November 2016

  • Billy Joel performs at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)

    Billy Joel takes blame for Bruce Springsteen bike breakdown

    Joel tells crowd at Madison Square Garden gig he built motorcycle that left the Boss stranded by side of the road in New Jersey

October 2016

  • Dave Schilling

    Why do people have to die before we name things after them?

    Dave Schilling
    The New York Assembly is fighting over whether ‘Billy Joel Boulevard’ would be acceptable for a stretch of Long Island highway. The crux? He’s not dead yet

September 2016

  • Makes a stadium feel like an intimate club … Billy Joel, left, plays Wembley on Saturday.

    Billy Joel review – evergreen, edgy and in sublime voice

    Piano man plays all the hits, switching styles, from doo-wop of The Longest Time to experimental Zanzibar, with aplomb

September 2015

  • SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best namechecks in songs

    Last week we brought you our 10 best namechecks in songs. Here we present your thoughts on recordings that should have made the list

April 2015

  • Fame

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about ambition - results

    Want to get elected? Make someone love you? Light up the sky like a flame? RR regular magicman does all this and more with a high-achieving selection from last week’s topic

January 2015

  • Billy Joel

    10 of the best
    Billy Joel: 10 of the best

    Pop’s original young fogey has mastered many styles, but at his heart there has always been sentiment and tartness. Here are 10 of his classics

November 2014

  • Paul McCartney

    Album streams
    The Art of McCartney: album stream

    Hear the Cure, Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Corinne Bailey Rae and others perform some of Paul McCartney’s best-loved songs – and let us know what you think

May 2014

  • Shawshank Redemption Greyhound scene

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best ... Greyhound bus moments

    Last week we brought you our 10 best Greyhound bus moments. Here, we present your thoughts on those moments that should have made the list

April 2014

  • Billy Joel Stiletto

    Exclusive: Billy Joel performs Stiletto in Moscow in 1987 - video

  • Billy Joel: soon to be cool. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns

    Billy Joel is due to become cool very soon – this is why

    Ed Butler

December 2013

  • Billy Joel

    Celebrospective
    Billy Joel moves in to Madison Square Garden: how we got here

    We honour the Bronx-born musician's New York City residency – and applaud him for skipping the detour to Las Vegas
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