Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish !!
Joke: Which Billy Joel album cover emphasizes his Huge eyes?

(All of them)

Dumb joke, you obviously didn't grow up on the 8-track of Glass Houses like I did.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if it gets into how he treated his backing musicians? Seeing as it's produced, obviously it won't.

Watch Hired Guns on Netflix for another perspective.

Still rock and roll to be though.

He had many of the same musicians with a few exceptions that I saw in the Innocent Man tour back in the 80s, on the Stormfront tour, Piano Men tour with Elton, River of Dreams Tour, and his tour from summer 2023.

I also heard that he paid his band during shit downs.

There are always disgruntled former employees willing to b$&%# about the former boss.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if it gets into how he treated his backing musicians? Seeing as it's produced, obviously it won't.

Watch Hired Guns on Netflix for another perspective.

Still rock and roll to be though.

Thanks for the rec, I watched it - he was pretty cold and arrogant to cut out his original bandmates without even a phone call, devastating consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish !!
Joke: Which Billy Joel album cover emphasizes his Huge eyes?

(All of them)

Dumb joke, you obviously didn't grow up on the 8-track of Glass Houses like I did.

True, more like The Stranger 8-track

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Is this on Netflix or somewhere else? Love me some Billy Joel. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Is this on Netflix or somewhere else? Love me some Billy Joel. Thanks!

Same here - where is it streaming?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this on Netflix or somewhere else? Love me some Billy Joel. Thanks!

Same here - where is it streaming?

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Anonymous wrote:I liked it too. Wow I really felt like his first wife was the love of his life. What a lovely person she is. The depth and the sweetness of their connection reminded me of my thirty year marriage. That break up was profoundly sad and it was likely his alcohol use that fueled it. As she said, she could have and did adapt to a significant amount of struggle related to his white hot fame (which she greatly contributed to) and the complexity of their merging work and their marriage as she managed him and the band for years and it obviously was complicated and took a toll. He needed her and then resented her, a common dynamic. But he was years away from facing his destructive drinking and she coukd not deal with it and the effects on her son. It seemed very sad.

Agreed. She is amazing, and I can't believe how gracious she is in her time with the documentary and her generous assessment of their time together. It's interesting that they only start addressing his alcoholism toward the end of Part 1, but you could certainly pick up hints along the way. His appearance vacillated wildly between looking pretty decent and looking bloated and sick.

I don't know much about him, so I just googled. There's an article in People that says she was in a relationship with his bandmate, and Joel moved in with the two of them and their child. And they started having an affair. Sounds scandalous! Do they go over that in this film?

It's a complete mess. She was beautiful and intelligent -- and married to his close friend. They are ALL in the documentary -- Elizabeth, the friend Billy stole her from, and Elizabeth's son. :O The doc is well done -- it's not like everyone is sitting around praising Billy Joel. They're just discussing the facts, and the facts are indeed scandalous.