Billy Joel

About

American singer/songwriter and pianist. Born May 9, 1949, in the Bronx, New York, and shortly thereafter moved to the Levittown section of Hicksville, Long Island, New York, where he started playing piano at age 4. In 1964, inspired by the Beatles, he formed his first band "The Echoes," which became "The Lost Souls" in 1965 and then "The Emerald Lords" in 1966. In 1967, he joined [a=The Hassles] and recorded two albums, which were not successful. Billy Joel and [a=Jon Small], the drummer of