Billy Joel Biography

He produced pop music hits from 1973 (beginning with the single Piano Man) to his retirement from the genre in 1993. He has continued to tour occasionally (usually with Elton John) in addition to writing and recording classical music.
Joel's songwriting cannot be separated from the life that inspired so much of his work. Joel was born in '49 a Cold War kid in McCarthy time as he wrote in his song Leningrad. Joel first lived in the modern-day South Bronx a ethnically white neighborhood at the time. His family then moved to Long Island to Levittown and then to Hicksville both working class towns in Nassau County [1]. His father Howard Joel was a Jewish refugee from Germany and his mother Rosalind Hyman was born in England to an agnostic Jewish family. Joel was not raised very religiously and in fact attended Roman Catholic mass with his Catholic friends inspiring some of his religion-themed lyrics. He has made many references in his lyrics to locations in the New York City metropolitan area particularly the Island in his songs. For example the Miracle Mile line in It's Still Rock & Roll to Me refers to the affluent shopping district that's located on Northern Boulevard in the community of Manhasset. Also in his early song Billy the Kid he describes a certain Billy as being from the Town of Oyster Bay the municipality in which the hamlet of Levittown is located.

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