Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 20:54     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 20:40     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Watch Bill Maher’s interview of Billy Joel on Club Random. Good stuff. Maher is obviously a big fan.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 18:40     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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?


Wasn't it her brother who embezzled Billy Joel's first fortune from him?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 18:34     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Anonymous wrote:
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?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 15:41     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
We don’t seems to have anymore Billy Joel’s, Elton John’s, Stevie Wonder’s, etc. (song writers who are also awesome musicians).
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 14:04     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Anonymous wrote:My husband. And I’d like to not hear about it anymore. Or Billy Joel songs on YouTube.


Something is very wrong if a person does not enjoy listening to Billy Joel.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 11:42     Subject: Re:Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
I watched it and am loving it.

I always thought he didn't get enough respect as a musician and songwriter. Already see the evidence on this thread.

It's a bit the same reaction Taylor Swift gets...oh you have written literally dozens of songs that speak to people and are insanely memorable melodies and oh you play an instrument flawlessly....but you are popular so you are overrated and kind of a talentless hack.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 11:39     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Anonymous wrote:My husband. And I’d like to not hear about it anymore. Or Billy Joel songs on YouTube.


Wow.😂
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 11:33     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
Anonymous wrote:I wish !!
Joke: Which Billy Joel album cover emphasizes his Huge eyes?

(All of them)


Does he have a thyroid problem
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 11:19     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 02:09     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
I really never realized the depth of his mental health struggles and the pain of his childhood. He has really suffered. But seems to be in a good place now. He very well could have been dead by now through a number of different means.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2025 02:07     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 22:33     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
My husband. And I’d like to not hear about it anymore. Or Billy Joel songs on YouTube.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 19:59     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
I wish !!
Joke: Which Billy Joel album cover emphasizes his Huge eyes?

(All of them)
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 19:30     Subject: Anyone watching the new Billy Joel biopic?
It's really good!!