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- Billy Joel revealed there was as soon as “dangerous blood” between him and Elton John
- Within the second a part of the Billy Joel: And So It Goes doc, the “Piano Man” hitmaker stated the stress stemmed from when John publicly stated he ought to go to rehab
- The second a part of the doc. will premiere on Friday, July 25 at 8 p.m. ET.
Billy Joel says there was as soon as “dangerous blood” between him and Elton John.
Within the second a part of a brand new two-part HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the “Piano Man” singer opens up about how the “Your Tune” musician’s public declaration that he wanted rehab brought about rigidity between them.
“Elton had made a remark that he thought I wanted actual rehab,” Joel, 76, says within the movie, referring to an interview John did with Rolling Stone in 2011. “He chalked it as much as, ‘Oh, he’s a drunk.’ And that actually harm me.”
He continues: “I stated wait a minute? Don’t you understand me higher than that? And there was dangerous blood for a short time. There was a dovetailing of issues that occurred throughout that point.”
Joel and John, 78, are longtime associates and tourmates. Although Joel says within the first a part of the movie that he as soon as “resented” the comparisons between the 2 stars, he finally grew to embrace it, and so they toured collectively on their Face to Face tour beginning in 1994.
They had been recent off a 2010 leg of their joint tour when John instructed Rolling Stone that they’d had “so many cancelled excursions due to sicknesses and numerous different issues, alcoholism.”
“He will hate me for this, however each time he goes to rehab they have been mild… I really like you Billy, and that is powerful love,” John stated of Joel, who went to rehab in 2005.
Joel notes within the doc that John’s feedback made him really feel “clobbered” and it was “all-time low” for him.
“I used to be disillusioned with what I assumed it was all purported to imply,” he says. “It was like all of the indicators had been pointing to me: Sufficient. And I wrote this letter to the band. ‘I don’t need to do that anymore. I’m gonna cease.'”
Joel beforehand entered rehab on the Betty Ford Heart in 2005 as a part of an “ultimatum” given to him by then-wife Katie Lee. (They break up in 2009 after 5 years of marriage.)
Following his stint on the clinic, the “Vienna” performer took a step again from the highlight and stopped touring.
In 2023, Joel instructed the Los Angeles Instances that he stop consuming “a few years in the past.”
“I finished a few years in the past,” he instructed the outlet. “It wasn’t a giant AA kick. I simply bought to a degree the place I’d had sufficient. I didn’t get pleasure from being utterly inebriated, and it in all probability created extra issues in my life than I wanted.”
The second a part of the doc. Billy Joel: And So It Goes will premiere on July 25.
