AP - Aug 19, 2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Billy Joel is selling a pair of adjacent homes in the Hamptons for $35 million after a split from third wife Katie Lee Joel. The bigger of the two homes once belonged to the...
More »AP - Jul 25, 2009
Billy Joel and Elton John have postponed a second upstate New York concert on their top-grossing tour after Joel fell ill with flu-like symptoms. The Times Union Center in Albany says in a release the...
More »E! Online - Jun 17, 2009
Like his song says, Billy Joel is movin' out...or at least movin' on. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer confirmed today that he and wife Katie Lee have split. "After nearly five years of marriage...
More »Reuters - May 8, 2009
It's April in Manhattan but winter is lingering, a fact Billy Joel notices as he looks out the window of his West Village townhouse. Joel is mildly surprised. Oh, my God, it's snowing, look at...
More »Reuters - Mar 31, 2009
On the surface, it always has seemed like a natural pairing: two of the rock era's most successful acts -- piano-based or otherwise -- dispensing hit after hit after hit. But look a little deeper...
More »Reuters - Mar 3, 2009
Elton John and Billy Joel's latest tour kicked off to a packed house in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday, operating under the simple business model: maximized reward, exceedingly minimized risk. The...
More »AP - Feb 10, 2009
The Piano Man and the Rocket Man are pairing up for a concert this summer at Chicago s Wrigley Field. Promoters announced Tuesday that Billy Joel and Elton John will play together at the home of the...
More »Reuters - Dec 21, 2008
In a positive sign for the 2009 touring season, sales for the upcoming Billy Joel/Elton John looks to be a smash, according to the promoter. The tour begins March 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., with tickets...
More »Reuters - Nov 12, 2008
Billy Joel and Elton John will reprise their wildly successful co-headlining concerts beginning in March of next year. John confirmed the duo would work again together, during an appearance on The View...
More »AP - Oct 16, 2008
It was Born to Run meets New York State of Mind with a little bit of Hail to the Chief thrown in for good measure. Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel joined forces in a concert to raise money for...
More »AP - Sep 30, 2008
Billy Joel, who has championed the cause of Long Island, New York, fishermen in songs like The Downeaster Alexa, is helping with the funeral expenses for a clam-digger whose body was found not far from...
More »AP - Aug 13, 2008
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going on the road to New York the city that spawned hip-hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that the...
More »AP - Jul 18, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock...
More »E! Online - Dec 10, 2007
Billy Joel took on the Vietnam War in "Goodnight Saigon." Now the Piano Man has emerged from semiretirement to tackle Iraq. Sort of. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's latest single, ...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2007
Billy Joel has broken his self-imposed retirement from pop for the second time in a year, but he'd almost rather you didn't know that. The second new Joel-penned single since his last pop album...
More »AP - Aug 16, 2007
It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly...
More »Reuters - Jun 7, 2007
Country music icon Dolly Parton was honored for her songwriting on Thursday at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where she made jokes about her famous big bust that she quipped would outlast her. I can...
More »AP - Jun 5, 2007
Roy Scheider says he is selling his five-bedroom oceanfront home in the Hamptons to Billy Joel for a price close to $18.75 million. I m so happy that Billy Joel is buying it, because it s the perfect...
More »Reuters - May 27, 2007
Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's online quest for help in picking a campaign song is evoking responses...
More »Reuters - Feb 2, 2007
Prince let his music do the talking on Thursday when he faced the media at a news conference covering Sunday s Super Bowl halftime show. The singer, clad in a tunic-style orange jump suit, eschewed...
More »Reuters - Jan 26, 2007
Presales -- a relatively new phenomenon where fans are offered access to a limited pool of choice seats through sponsor promotions, paid fan club membership, venue promotions or a combination thereof --...
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