Billy Joel, And So It Goes and HBO
Digest more
Billy Joel opens up about the new HBO documentary 'Billy Joel: And So It Goes' — and why he "resisted" revealing the highs and lows of his life and career — in this week's issue of PEOPLE.
At one point, [Billy] said to me, 'You going deep?' And I said, ‘Yeah, and you know you’re going to go deep too,'" the film’s co-director Susan Lacy says.
Directors Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin join Morning Joe to discuss the new two-part HBO documentary film 'Billy Joel: And So It Goes'.
The result is an expansive examination of the man and his art - a career that includes six Grammys, a Tony, and enshrinement in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame - covering five hours and featuring 110 of Joel's 121 songs. And that's the trimmed-down version. "It was much longer," Lacy says.
He didn’t see the film until it was finished, so he stuck by that, and we took that as permission to tell the real story about Billy Joel.”