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“If Joel has learned anything from history, it's that he should never write a song about one of his wives.”

In 2012, Alec Baldwin spoke with Billy Joel on his podcast Here’s the Thing.  At one point in the conversation, Alec told Billy that he had all the skills to be an actor and asked him why he never pursued it.

One of the hard lessons of rock and roll is that the music business is about both the music and the business, and if you don’t pay attention to each of them, you’re gonna get burned.

When Billy Joel was in his junior year at Hicksville High School on Long Island, he and his fellow students were given a questionnaire titled ‘Idea Associations.’  The form provided a phrase to prompt a response, and the students would fill in the blanks