Billy Joel embarks on a new kind of tour -- any questions?(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | May 9, 1996| | Copyright

The Piano Man isn't writing pop songs these days. He's writing classical music _ old-fashioned, 19th-century-style classical music.

Billy Joel, 46, says he needed a change from the routine of releasing an album, then touring, then releasing another album, then touring again.

``I've been at this for close to 30 years now,'' said Joel in a phone interview this week. ``I'm tired of it, getting up on stage and screaming my head off. You don't get a chance to do a lot of writing when you're on the road, so that's what I'm concentrating on now, the writing.''

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