Billy Joel

Singers also unite for "Big Man on Mulberry Street" at One Night Only show in Tampa Bay Billy Joel and Sting kicked off their One Night Only slate of co-headlining summer shows Saturday with a gig in Tampa Bay, with both artists popping up during the other’s set to help sing one of their classic songs. Joel introduced Sting’s set at Raymond James Stadium, telling the audience, “I saw this guy when he came with his band to the States, and I was blown away. This was the late-Seventies. I thought…

AI technology helped conjure an image of the singer crooning the tune at his commercial peaks Billy Joels from every decade share the same worry — “Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on?” — in the video for Joel’s first new song in 17 years, “Turn the Lights Back On.” The clip uses AI technology to transition from early Seventies Piano Man Joel, all bushy-haired and befogged with cigarettes, to late Eighties Storm Front Joel, who was probably more concerned with pleading his innocence…

Billy Joel stopped by The Late Show to discuss his new single, “Turn The Lights Back On,” and his Madison Square Garden residency. After coming onstage to chats of “Billy! Billy!” from the late-night show audience, Joel explained the inspiration behind releasing what he calls his first new song in 30 years. “I didn’t expect this to happen,” Joel told host Stephen Colbert. “This is something that just developed starting about two years ago. I met a guy, who was a fan, and he wanted to try to get me to think about…

CBS is embracing the Piano Man. Ahead the Super Bowl, the network announced it would stream Billy Joel’s 100th concert at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, April 14 at 9 pm ET/PT. The two hour special, titled The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden — The Greatest Run Of All Time, marks the first time a Billy Joel concert will air on a broadcast network. It will be filmed at his March 28 show, and will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. The news comes as Joel is…

While preparing for his Super Bowl halftime performance, Usher achieved another goal: He finished recording his ninth album. Coming Home was released on Friday, two days before he celebrates his 30-year career at the big game. “Life couldn’t be in a better situation for me right now,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s going pretty great.” The album is a 20-track R&B adventure and features collaborations with Latto, Burna Boy, The-Dream and Pheelz, who appears on the current single…

His ninth album samples Billy Joel and features guests like 21 Savage and Burna Boy as he keeps the momentum up and dance-y, teeter-tottering between cookout-friendly party jams and sex playlist classics His ninth album samples Billy Joel and features guests like 21 Savage and Burna Boy as he keeps the momentum up and dance-y, teeter-tottering between cookout-friendly party jams and sex playlist classics FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…

When Freddy Wexler was a kid growing up in New York City in the Nineties, there was no artist he loved more than Billy Joel. The 37-year-old singer-producer — who has has written songs for everyone from Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande to Kanye West and Celine Dion — used to sit in his bedroom, put on The Stranger, Turnstiles, or River of Dreams, and dream. “I would imagine it was me performing,” Wexler tells Rolling Stone via Zoom from his house in L.A. “I wanted to be Billy Joel.” But despite all his songwriting…

Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday, Feb. 4, for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, Sista Strings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As for what they’ll be performing? “It will be a song that I think everybody knows,” Kapoor tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, “and if you are a Joni Mitchell fan, it’s the song that…

The romantic ballad doubles as a message to fans that have waited all these years for new material Billy Joel‘s new single “Turn the Lights Back On,” his first original song in 17 years, has been released. Produced by Freddy Wexler, who has worked with everyone from Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez to Celine Dion and Kanye West, the song is a tender love ballad that doubles as a message to fans that have waited all these years for new material. It was written by Joel, Wexler, British songwriter Wayne…

Billy Joel sent shockwaves through his fan community earlier this month by announcing plans to release a new single, “Turn the Lights Back On,” on Feb. 1. He hasn’t put out new material of any sort since 2007’s “Christmas in Fallujah,” and River of Dreams was his last album of original pop songs way back in 1993. Joel is performing on Feb. 4 at the Grammys, where he’s likely to debut the song live, but there’s still much we don’t know. What inspired him to release a new song after all this time? How did he team up…