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 ...

Billy Joel’s songs are legendary - “Piano Man,” "Just the Way You Are", "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman" and “Uptown Girl” among hundreds of others. Yet the singer-songwriter is quick ...

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 ...