Billy Joel doc..there were no bad guys in his marriages

really enjoyed the doc. i felt like i was reliving my childhood from a different viewpoint. very much hit me in the feels and the mid-80s concert at UNO feels different now; Nylon Curtain had just come out so that dominated most of the songs he played.

was he wrong for stealing his best friend's wife? of course but he confronted him (and got slugged in the face) and his conscience bothered him to the point he tried to kill himself twice. amazing he survived. also he was practically still a teenager at the time so he gets a pass. hard not to feel for his friend who drove him to the hospital and stayed with him even after how all that went down. dude was better off without a woman who wasn't in love with him anyway.

then of course she comes back into his life a year later and he goes on to give her complete autonomy to run his career and she stayed by his rock-and-roll lifestyle side up to the point he almost killed himself in the motorcycle wreck. gave him the key back to his house while he was in the hospital and said 'i'm not going to watch you kill yourself'. she was 100% in the right to leave.

if she's in her 70s now she is still in her prime. what a looker

Christie Brinkley..my opinion of her went WAY UP after this. watching all the video cam footage she made..you could ABSOLUTELY see she loved him like no other and is the one who sniffed out of that rat of of a manager. again, much like his first wife she stayed by his side and only had his best interest in her heart but when he's doing 300 shows a year and drinking until 4am every night afterward thats not much of a role model for his little girl and again, she was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT in the right to leave. he knew it too. also those tears were sincere; you can see she still loves him. when she talked about calling all the bars until one said "yeah, he's here" and she said "don't tell him i called, i just wanted to make sure he was...someplace". SHE LOVED HIM!

Hot brunette trophy 20something wife. by the mid 2000s he was older, fatter and just wanted to chill at home. she admitted she wanted to party and he was in a different place in his life just wanting to be home all the time. no one at fault here i can see.

and his current wife..Alexis beautiful, successful and appreciates that he's home cooking dinner and having a glass of wine for her when she gets off work i mean, how can you hate on having billy joel making dinner for you every night and playing the piano for you? this one seems like it will last.

billy; just way too trusting of everyone. yes his first wife's scumbag brother fricked him over but i don't see him as an a-hole in any way; he's a fricking rock star..that means he's going to drink alcohol and do drugs excessively. you have to know that going in.

the fact his original band is still with him is crazy. its also crazy how well all of these people 'from the 60s and 70s' have aged. sometihng good in the water in upstate NY

anyway, crazy documentary and so hard to believe after a string of number one albums he was broke in the mid 80s. the "talent" (how i hate that word) seems to be a pawn for these predator music biz people. insane how he could tour 300 days a year for 15 years and have 7 gold albums and not have money to pay rent. glad to see he came out of that ok. he's a better man than i am when he said "rather than focus on lawsuits and trying to get money back, i just went back into the studio and made more platinum albums"

so bj is my homie and i'll fight anyone who disparages him.

ETA sorry. i know the rules

Elizabeth Weber

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now



Christie



Katie Lee




Alexis