Fame didn’t erase the damage. Alcohol, depression, shattered marriages, and staggering betrayal nearly finished what his childhood began.
Yet each time, he crawled back to the keys.
Now, with a fragile brain and a body in rehab instead of on tour, Billy Joel is once again fighting time, pain, and fear.
His daughter calls him a trooper.
Fans call him a legend. But at his core, he’s still that kid at the piano, refusing to let the darkness have the last note.