Billy Joel's Midlife Confessions

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 17, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Thirty years past his first high school band, the Echoes, it's still rock-and-roll to Billy Joel. "The question is: Can rock-and- roll grow up and still have its potency, its essence - which is the wild abandon of youth, sex, freedom, the flouting of convention?" Joel asks, a few hours before 20,000 people - most of them comfortably middle-aged - fill Madison Square Garden for one of six straight shows that sold out in a matter of hours.

Tastefully grizzled at 44, Billy Joel is not exactly the portrait of wanton, rebellious youth. He's clad in an Armani suit, eating a lobster salad in a ...

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