Billy Joel is a very humorous person. This did not come across in this book, but one can't expect everything. The book was very well researched and read very easily. It also did a very good job documenting the hard experience that was necessary for Joel to become the rock star that he is. (This is a signficant contrast to many rock stars that are created as an afterthought-- usually by some marketing executive.) It was...
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This biography of Billy Joel is the best one I've ever seen of Billy. It's also the only one I've ever seen. Bordowitz has put together a decent, though not definitive, look at Billy Joel's career by splicing together interviews with ex-associates of BJ's, articles from other magazines, and a few of BJ's TV interviews. To say that the sources are thin would be an understatement. Bordowitz also makes a few glaring chronological...
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I find myself scratching my head at the reviews who say there is "nothing new" here. I've been a devout Billy Joel fanatic all my life, and there is a LOT of new info here. One thing that stands out is Billy's attempted suicide: Billy always kind of laughed the incident off, saying he "just went around farting furniture polish. I'd sit on the chair and polish the furniture." The Borowitz book reveals that (a) Billy was admitted...
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