#billy-joel

#billy-joel

On Friday (January 2), Billy Joel performed live for the first time since revealing his diagnosis with a brain disorder last year. He joined the Billy Joel tribute band Turnstiles for two songs at their show in Wellington, Florida, singing and playing piano on "Big Shot," from 1978's 52nd Street, and "We Didn't Start the Fire." "I wasn't planning on working tonight," Joel joked to the crowd as he took the stage.

He wore a Ramones cutoff tee while boating down the Mekong River in Vietnam in another episode, and later dedicated his 2006 book "The Nasty Bits" to Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee Ramone. Throughout the course of his decades-long on-screen career, Bourdain used his platform to further elevate his favorite musicians, dining with Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and breaking bread with Iggy Pop.

Jon Small recalls the distress from Joel's affair with his wife, stating, "these [were] my two best friends." This moment marked a turning point in their relationship.

"I had no place to live; I was sleeping in laundromats, and I was depressed, I think to the point of almost being psychotic. So I figured, 'That's it. I don't want to live anymore.'"