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I don’t think I’m wrong to think that many fans of Billy Joel’s music may not even realize that the Piano Man is Jewish.
Yet a new documentary series, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” on HBO Max, highlights his Judaism. The audience learns that the singer of some of the greatest pop and rock hits of the past century sees his Jewish identity as something central and immutable to his existence.
Joel shares this key part of his identity when explaining why, in 2017, after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville — where one woman was killed and Neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us” — the entertainer started wearing a yellow star to all his concerts.
While Joel has made politics part of his music from very early on, he did not want to get on a soapbox at his concerts and protest Trump saying that “there were very fine people on both sides.” The anger of that moment still feels fresh to him. “We fought a war to defeat these people… He should have come out and said, ‘Those are bad people’… The Nazis are not good people, period,” he says in the documentary.
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Yet a new documentary series, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” on HBO Max, highlights his Judaism. The audience learns that the singer of some of the greatest pop and rock hits of the past century sees his Jewish identity as something central and immutable to his existence.
Joel shares this key part of his identity when explaining why, in 2017, after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville — where one woman was killed and Neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us” — the entertainer started wearing a yellow star to all his concerts.
While Joel has made politics part of his music from very early on, he did not want to get on a soapbox at his concerts and protest Trump saying that “there were very fine people on both sides.” The anger of that moment still feels fresh to him. “We fought a war to defeat these people… He should have come out and said, ‘Those are bad people’… The Nazis are not good people, period,” he says in the documentary.
A New HBO Documentary Series Highlights Billy Joel’s Jewish Pride – Kveller
I don’t think I’m wrong to think that many fans of Billy Joel’s music may not even realize that the Piano Man is Jewish. Yet a new documentary series, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” on HBO Max, highlights his Judaism. The audience learns that the singer of some of the greatest pop and rock […]
www.kveller.com
