Billy Joel’s first new pop song in nearly two decades was sparked by someone miles from the record business: a Long Island doctor.
Joel, 74, has long made it known that he isn’t interested in making more albums.
(“He is everything,” Olivia Rodrigo, 20, who referenced him in her song “Deja Vu,” said last summer.)
Over the years, the list of people who’d tried to cajole him back into writing and recording grew legion: Clive Davis.
Yet when Joel’s family doctor urged him to meet “a kid” interested in discussing music near his place out east in Sag Harbor, he agreed to a lunch.
Persons:
Billy Joel’s, Joel, —, that’s, ”, ” Olivia Rodrigo, who’d, Clive Davis, Rick Rubin, Elton John
Locations:
Oyster Bay, N.Y, “, Sag Harbor