I asked the man on the dock at the Palm Beach International Boat Show how Billy Joel’s boat got its name. “The Vendetta?” said the man, brokering the sale of Joel’s 57-foot commuter yacht a few years ...

When Billy Joel was putting together his 1977 album The Stranger, there was one song he wasn’t sure about releasing. In the studio, he got some sage advice and ended up including the track on the ...

Part 1 of HBO's two-part documentary traces Joel's life and career through 1980, testifying to the contradictions that fueled his incandescent pop. “Piano Man,” for instance, emerged from the ...