10 Interesting facts about Billy joel

10 Interesting facts about Billy joel

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
2	He is also a five-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
3	Joel "retired" from recording pop music in 1993 but continued to tour (sometimes with Elton John).
4	In 2007, he briefly returned to pop songwriting and recording with a single entitled "All My Life"—written for his third wife Katie Lee Joel.
5	Joel's father was an accomplished classical pianist.
6	His interest in music, rather than sports, was a source of teasing and bullying in his early years.
7	As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so that he would be able to defend himself. He boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning twenty-two bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after having his nose broken in his twenty-fourth boxing match
8	Joel attended Hicksville High School, and was expected to graduate in 1967.but he overslept on the day of an important exam, owing to his late-night musician's lifestyle.
9	Upon seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Joel decided to pursue a full-time musical career, and set about finding a local Long Island band to join.
10	Joel completed voice work on Disney's Oliver & Company, released in 1988, a loose adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Joel brought both his acting and musical talents to the film as Dodger.

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