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Billy Joel’s Message As Doc ‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes’ Opens Tribeca Festival Without Him — ‘Getting Old Sucks, But It’s Still Preferable To Getting Cremated”


An ailing Billy Joel was not in attendance tonight at the world premiere HBO documentary about his life and music but sent word to a packed Beacon Theater.

An ailing Billy Joel was not in attendance tonight at the world premiere HBO documentary about his life and music but sent word to a packed Beacon Theater in NYC via its director. Nas described the wonders of Piano Man, about Joel’s stint working at The Executive Room Bar in LA to make ends meet, and New York State of Mind, expressing relief as her returned to his home coast. Joel last month postponed all tour dates disclosing a diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), stemming from an onstage fall during a concert last February in Connecticut.

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