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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Following the premiere of HBO’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the ...

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 ...

Chart performance can be a fickle thing, and no album exemplifies this unreliability quite like Billy Joel’s The Stranger. Released on September 29, 1977, Joel’s fifth album was by far his most ...

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 ...

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 has branded The White Album by The Beatles a "collection of half-a--ed songs". The Piano Man was clearly not a fan of the legendary rock band's 1968 self-titled double album - which ...

Forty-six years ago today, Billy Joel stopped being just the Piano Man for a minute and proved he could lead a rock band. The album was a left turn on purpose. Joel set aside the grand piano that ...

The ‘70s classic was heard in the series finale.

This iconic 1974 song is climbing the charts again after a memorable appearance in the series finale of 'The Boys.' ...

There is no other artist like Billy Joel, mainly as he knew when to call it quits. To this end, there was one 1993 tune he ...

While Billy Joel and Bob Dylan had vastly different approaches to songwriting, they knew when they heard musical perfection.