“I have never done a complete dinner for this many people!” marveled Katie Lee Joel (wife of Billy), 26, in an exclusive phone interview with the Transom, regarding the Southern-inflected clam bake she designed for her husband’s Ross School benefit concert on Saturday, Aug. 4....

Prince barely spoke, and still stole the show. It was billed as a news conference about the Super Bowl entertainment lineup, featuring pregame performers Cirque du Soleil, national anthem singer Billy Joel and Prince, the halftime-show headliner.Typically, these events have been question-and-answer sessions.Then again, there's...

Five For Fighting is taking care of the troops, music-wise.John Ondrasik, the singer-songwriter who goes by the stage name Five For Fighting, called upon celeb pals including Billy Joel and Josh Groban to donate songs to an album dedicated to the U.S. Armed Services.The result...

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More like a preacher than an entertainer, [Joel] continues to sing real-life soap opera ballads that rarely show any signs of imagination…. I'm tired of hearing stories about the pains of the lonely and the strife endured by angry young men, and about how rough it is to be a musician and have to play the piano in bars where horny divorcees come to diddle with their gin and tonics…. He does have a natural talent for writing good, poetic lyrics but he never puts enough guts into them, mos...