Overview
- The two-part documentary "Billy Joel: And So It Goes" opened the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival at Beacon Theatre without Joel in attendance due to his health diagnosis.
- Joel’s team confirmed that normal pressure hydrocephalus, worsened by recent performances, has forced him to cancel all upcoming concerts to focus on treatment.
- Ex-wife and former manager Elizabeth Weber appears throughout the film, reflecting on their marriage, her influence on his career and their reconciliation.
- Making extensive use of never-before-seen archival footage and home movies, the film covers Joel’s difficult childhood, rise to fame and personal struggles.
- Executive producers Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro highlight Joel’s story ahead of its HBO release later this summer.