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Billy Joel on His New Documentary: 'I Didn't Hate It, Which ... Is the Real Compliment'
LONG ISLAND, JUL 22 – The two-part HBO documentary reveals Billy Joel's personal struggles and career milestones with rare footage, highlighting his self-revelation and resilience over six decades.
- On July 18, 2025, HBO Max premiered Part 1 of the documentary, with Part 2 due on July 25th, and the feature spans five hours.
- Built around exclusive interviews with Billy Joel, the documentary directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin in an exhaustive, encyclopedic style.
- An odd moment surfaces as Joel quips `Oh, crap, I’m in the nuthouse` during a June 26, 1973 solo piano take of “Piano Man,” while John Jackson explains the significance of that performance.
- Despite initial reluctance, Joel embraced the project and described it as `some self-revelatory stuff`.
- The archive team plans to expand access on YouTube despite costs, with John Jackson outlining a multi-prong strategy for restored footage, noting no immediate end to archiving.
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I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary
NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.(Image credit: Art Maillet)
ThePatriotLight - Billy Joel Reveals How He Really Feels About 'Woke' Ideology – PJ Media
ThePatriotLight - The first episode of a two-part documentary, "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," dropped on HBO this week. Bill Maher interviewed the Piano Man about the project on his "Club Random" podcast, and they ultimately got around to the topic of wokeism. I'll get to that in a minute, but first, let's talk about the documentary. I'm a huge Billy Joel fan, and even saw him in concert in Cleveland last fall with my colleague Matt Margolis. M…
Billy Joel on his new documentary: 'I didn't hate it, which ... is the real compliment'
Courtesy HBO Billy Joel admits he was a reluctant subject when it comes to the HBO documentary And So It Goes. In a new cover story for People, Billy says, “I’ve resisted this kind of thing for so long. I’m sick of talking about myself.” He notes, “My goal was to get it over with. When I do interviews, people just ask you about yourself and you get a little self-conscious about it eventually. It’s almost embarrassing.” “I was worried, maybe I’m …
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