The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Billy Joel is cancelling his tour due to brain health issues

**Posted by Muffaraw Joe** May 24, 2025 7:47 pm

To see Billy Joel live is a big event, even if tickets cost a ton...it is one concert that you would scrape up the funds for...well, yesterday he cancelled his tour for brain/neuro health issues.

Here is more on the story...

https://jumpradio.ca/news/11193947/billy-joel-brain-disorder-shows-cancelled/

Talking about Billy Joel, would Piano Man be a bathroom break song? You would need a live version, as the song itself is 5:40.

**Posted by RadioAaron** May 24, 2025 7:56 pm

Saw him at MSG last year, and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. Even from the rafters, the showmanship and production was second-to-none. Glad I did while I could. Wishing him the best, obviously.

**Posted by newsguy1** May 25, 2025 12:39 pm

Hope he's one of the lucky ones who can be cured, or at least have minimal symptoms.
I remember Billy Joel playing small venues in Vancouver before he got famous.
Even then people realized he was no ordinary bar act.
Eventually Joel played his first "big" venue.
It was at the Queen Elizabeth theatre, which seated just over 2 thousand people back in 1977.

Last edited by newsguy1 (May 25, 2025 12:45 pm)

**Posted by RadioActive** June 6, 2025 1:10 pm

A new Billy Joel documentary, slated to debut next month, reveals that the Piano Man once tried to kill himself, long before he achieved worldwide success. And he made those attempts not once, but twice.

It's just one of many revelations in the film, that debuts on HBO in the U.S. in July. Not sure who will have it here - Crave, HBO Canada or someone else. But I'm pretty sure you'll get to see it if you subscribe to the right service.

Billy Joel documentary reveals he attempted suicide twice and was in a coma after affair with friend’s wife