Billy Joel was firmly proud of many of his pop hits, but not all of his experiments worked out exactly as he had planned it.

Joel has 33 Top 40 hits, and he has been inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Music icon Billy Joel surprised fans with a special Christmas gift on Dec. 24, unveiling a never-before-seen video of himself performing the track "The Stranger" in 1979. Sharing the clip on Instagram ...

Billy Joel may have been making ends meet in the early 1970s, but he considers this album a leap forward in his professional ...

Billy Joel's 1977 magnum opus, "The Stranger," is hailed by many as an album that defined the New York experience with its sound. But Joel wasn't the only sound in town at the time, as the City that ...

While disco, funk, rock and soulful pop dominated the charts in the 1970s, Billy Joel quietly rose above the trend and ...

Fandom, like stardom, invites mythmaking. So I can’t be certain I’m right when I say my appreciation of Billy Joel took off somewhere around 1983, at a house where I was babysitting. They had a VHS ...

Billy Joel was coming back to his home city to try and recharge a career that had stalled. The city itself was facing hard times of its own. Joel’s imagination ran wild from there to create one of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music icon Billy Joel surprised fans with a special Christmas gift on Dec. 24, unveiling a never-before-seen video of himself ...