Billy Joel pulled back the curtain on his songwriting process during a visit to The Howard Stern Show last week, including why he had to completely rewrite the melody to one of his biggest hits when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For anyone who has enjoyed all of those Billy Joel songs between the 1971 album Cold Spring Harbor and 1993's River of Dreams, ...

Any mayor of New York City ought to know the basics of Billy Joel. To help candidate Zohran Mamdani, who recently revealed his total unfamiliarity with Joel's 1976 anthem “New York State of Mind,” we ...

JOEL: (Singing) Uptown girl. She's been living in her uptown world. INSKEEP: That last song references Christie Brinkley, one of his wives. In the documentary, Billy Joel sits at his grand piano in ...

JOEL: (Singing) Oh, but working too hard can give you a heart attack. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG") JOEL: (Singing) Well, only the good die young. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UPTOWN GIRL") ...