Speaker 1: All right, And last but not least, Billy Joel and
Speaker 1: So it Goes, which is a music documentary capturing the
Speaker 1: life and career of Billy Joel. And of course this
Speaker 1: features exclusive interviews, are Chibo footage, and personal memorabilia, and
Speaker 1: I believe it's a touching portrait of one of music's
Speaker 1: most enduring icons.
Speaker 2: So let me go through this one.
Speaker 1: Really quickly and start by saying that this was a
Speaker 1: two part documentary. Shane, there are five hours of Billy Joel.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, five?
Speaker 1: Now what let me tell you five the five hours
Speaker 1: actually work because it would almost be like the Luther
Speaker 1: Van Draws dot came in at about an hour forty.
Speaker 1: Luther Van Draws's career is nineteen seventy six, He makes
Speaker 1: his first song in nineteen eighty and then he passes
Speaker 1: away in twenty twenty four, so he has a lifespan
Speaker 1: of about twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 2: As an artist.
Speaker 1: Right. More than that, well, I mean no saying that
Speaker 1: when the first Luther album wasn't really like the album
Speaker 1: that popped, he didn't pop until eighty one and he
Speaker 1: passed no for it, so he's about twenty three. I'm
Speaker 1: being generous about twenty five, twenty somebody years name somebody else,
Speaker 1: think about somebody like Prince right, so Prince Now remember
Speaker 1: Netflix had a nine hour documentary that they funded, shot it,
Speaker 1: and then pulled it. Yeah, so five hours sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot of time, but when you've got like a
Speaker 1: monumental career. So in a Billy Joel case, the whole
Speaker 1: first part goes up until about from nineteen I want
Speaker 1: to say, was it the early seventies till about the
Speaker 1: late sixties to about nineteen eighty two, And the whole
Speaker 1: focus of that period is him finally breaking through because
Speaker 1: he had been making some songs and he had good songs,
Speaker 1: but the albums weren't popping. His first album that pops
Speaker 1: comes in like around nineteen seventy seven. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say, I want to make sure I'm getting this
Speaker 1: right because, oh, for whatever reason, I don't have internet
Speaker 1: in here today.
Speaker 2: What was the nineteen seventy seven Billy Joel album?
Speaker 1: Was that class Houses? No before class class Houses? Because
Speaker 1: class Houses was the second album, right that popped, and
Speaker 1: then he had another album after that. So he had
Speaker 1: three straight like number one albums in a row that
Speaker 1: really hit. But this and remember he had made Piano
Speaker 1: Man earlier. That was like, like, again, Shane's looking. Piano
Speaker 1: Man is a huge song, right for Billy Joel.
Speaker 2: He had also made The Stranger. That's the album for
Speaker 2: Billy Joel that really popped.
Speaker 1: So after that he had had some singles that had worked,
Speaker 1: but he was looking for that breakthrough album and that
Speaker 1: was the breakthrough album, right, and then Glass Houses came
Speaker 1: after that, and then there was a third album after
Speaker 1: that that really hit for Billy Joel. Right, glass Houses
Speaker 1: my favorite toom.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what people don't know. What I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Was that Billy Joel's whole story is absolutely amazing. Man.
Speaker 2: So of course he had a father who.
Speaker 1: Wasn't really kind to him as a kid, and this
Speaker 1: is Billy Joel's words, not Tim Gordon's, and his father
Speaker 1: just disappeared, and years later he found out that his
Speaker 1: father was alive, living in Vienna with a brand new family,
Speaker 1: hence the song Vienna.
Speaker 2: I didn't know any of this stuff. I was like wow,
Speaker 2: So I thought, what the.
Speaker 1: Documentary did really really well is like these monumental songs
Speaker 1: that Billy Joel made, he has these stories that lead
Speaker 1: into all these songs.
Speaker 2: Like piano Man.
Speaker 1: Piano Man was about him playing, you know, when he
Speaker 1: was trying to get on and he would show up
Speaker 1: and he would play these piano bars. But what made
Speaker 1: a genius was that he was talking about he wrote
Speaker 1: the song about him, but reflecting on all these different
Speaker 1: art types of people that he met that he played for.
Speaker 1: And also, let me just share that the documentary has
Speaker 1: like a superstar lineup of people who sat down to
Speaker 1: talk about Billy Joel. Everybody from Bruce Springsteen, the NAS to.
Speaker 2: Don Henley, John Coogar, Magle.
Speaker 1: I mean, he like they're huge people, sting I think,
Speaker 1: sits down and has some stuff. So everybody's talking about
Speaker 1: Billy Joel. Right, Billy Joel was just a super gifted songwriter.
Speaker 1: So the first episode ends because I I skipped the narrative.
Speaker 1: He was he was in his first band and his
Speaker 1: best friend in the band.
Speaker 2: Was married to this woman.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name was, but they he
Speaker 1: started spending time with this guy's wife and fell in
Speaker 1: love with his wife and had to tell his best
Speaker 1: friend that, hey, man, I fell in love with your
Speaker 1: wife and then and she was his muse. So they
Speaker 1: break up. So Joel tries to commit suicide a couple
Speaker 1: of times because he's super depressed. The guy and his
Speaker 1: wife don't work out. They they part, he hooks back
Speaker 1: up with her, and that's his lady, who's his muse
Speaker 1: for all these songs, and then she became his manager,
Speaker 1: and the whole first part goes up until when they
Speaker 1: finally split up after whatever this third album was, it
Speaker 1: came out the Glasshouses.
Speaker 2: She was just tired of the She wasn't really about
Speaker 2: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But she was certain the Class Houses was the third albums.
Speaker 1: That's the third album, so she they split up out
Speaker 1: what was the album? Between Street to the second Street?
Speaker 2: Thank You?
Speaker 1: So the whole first half, man, it's just amazing, and
Speaker 1: she's interviewed in this real oh oh my god it is.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: So I'll end by saying, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: extend this Billy Joel.
Speaker 2: And so it goes. It is great.
Speaker 1: It's a reminder that behind the bright lights and sold
Speaker 1: out arenas, the piano man's greatest legacy might be how
Speaker 1: deeply personal and universal his songs remain.
Speaker 2: And when you watch it you'll see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I gave this thing a b plus I really liked, and.
Speaker 2: So it goes, Wow, great stories made you think higher
Speaker 2: of Billy Joel Man. I always like Billy Joe.
Speaker 1: But there's some there's some things in here that are
Speaker 1: really really sad man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you think.
Speaker 1: About you know, we talk all the time about how
Speaker 1: artists are able to take really horrible things and turn
Speaker 1: them into something amazing. And to me, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some there's a bunch of songs, but the Vienna one
Speaker 1: is the is the worst. The Vienna because because when
Speaker 1: I heard Vienna, my idea of what Vienna means is
Speaker 1: entirely different than what what Billy Joel saw when he
Speaker 1: wrote that. Because Vienna plays like, you know, something about
Speaker 1: young man. So it's almost a song about somebody young,
Speaker 1: Slow down, young man, and you know, because Vienna's waiting
Speaker 1: for you, like at some point. I took it to
Speaker 1: mean that, like, at some point you're gonna grow old
Speaker 1: in your age and this this part of your life
Speaker 1: is waiting for you.
Speaker 2: That's not what Vienna's about. Look, look, Shane, that's not it.
Speaker 1: Vienna is about a guy who never got the love
Speaker 1: from his dad up until the day his father passed
Speaker 1: and always wanted his father's love, only to find out
Speaker 1: that his father was living with another family, loving love,
Speaker 1: getting giving love to another child that wasn't him in Vienna,
Speaker 1: who Like I was sitting there when he when he
Speaker 1: told that story, I was like, wait, what does happen?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's not what I thought this was.
Speaker 1: But yes, so Billy jo w and Sale goes man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be debuting this weekend on HBO Max. I
Speaker 1: would highly recommend you check that out