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Can 6 hours of Billy Joel turn critics into believers?

JL;DR SUMMARY Billy Joel, often considered a divisive figure in music criticism, is the focus of a comprehensive six-hour documentary by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, titled "Billy Joel: And So It Goes." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HeritageDocumentaryMental HealthSteven SpielbergLong IslandOlivia RodrigoBilly JoelMusic CriticismAmerican SongbookPiano Man

Places mentioned

Hicksville, New York, United States
"Thousands of years later, a working-class kid from Hicksville would answer back: Everybodys talkin bout the new sound."
New York, United States
"Billy Joel whose sizable catalogue includes an apocalyptic anthem of New York, a hit accounting of history from the Truman administration to the 1980s Cola Wars and countless fawning and fatalistic ballads inspired by women who left him is another sort of prophet."
Long Island, New York, United States
"Joels origin story, by now well known, begins in hardscrabble Long Island."
Los Angeles, New York, United States
"Arriving in Los Angeles, he had a record deal with Columbia, but a legal battle with his old label forced him to eke out a living at a piano bar, a gig hed immortalize in his breakout hit."
Madison, New York, United States
"Joel explains his familys Holocaust story, and his decision to wear a yellow star at an August 2017 performance at Madison Square Garden in a moving segment in part two."

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