Title: Billy Joel
Content:  is one of the best-selling albums in the United States. Joel was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York, and grew up on Long Island, both places that influenced his music. Growing up, he took piano lessons at his mother's insistence. After dropping out of high school to pursue a musical career, Joel took part in two short-lived bands, The Hassles and Attila, before signing a record deal with Family Productions and kicking off a solo career in 1971 with his first release Cold Spring Harbor. In 1972, Joel caught the attention of Columbia Records after a live radio performance of the song "Captain Jack" became popular in Philadelphia, prompting him 
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors for influencing American culture through the arts. Since the advent of his solo career, Joel has held a successful touring career, holding live performances across the globe in which he sings several of his written songs. In 1987, he became one of the first artists to hold a rock tour in the Soviet Union following the country's alleviation of the ban on rock music. Despite largely retiring from writing and releasing pop music following the release of River of Dreams, he continues to tour; he frequently performs at Madison Square Garden.
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  Joel's music and introduced him to the company. Joel signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1972 and moved to Los Angeles, California; he lived there for the next three years. For six months he worked at The Executive Room piano bar on Wilshire Boulevard as "Bill Martin". During that time, he composed his signature hit "Piano Man" about the bar's patrons. Despite Joel's new contract, he was legally bound to Family Productions. Artie Ripp sold Joel's first contract to Columbia. Walter Yetnikoff, the president of CBS/Columbia Records at the time, bought back the rights to Joel's songs in the late 1970s, giving the rights to Joel as a birthday gift. Yetnikoff notes in the documentary film The Last Play at 
Title: Billy Joel discography
Content:  American singer-songwriter Billy Joel has released 13 studio albums, six live albums, 17 compilation albums, 10 video albums, 61 singles, three promotional singles and 45 music videos.
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his first major hit and signature song of the same name as well as the similarly named 1973 album, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  Bon Jovi, Diana Krall, Rob Thomas and Natalie Cole. Joel has won five Grammys, including Album of the Year for 52nd Street and Song of the Year and Record of the Year for "Just the Way You Are". In 1993, Joel was the second entertainer out of thirty persons to be inducted into the Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame. On September 20, 2004, Joel received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his work in the music industry, located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard. He was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006. Joel is the only performing artist to have played both Yankee 
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  he could defend himself. He boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning 22 bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after his nose was broken in his 24th boxing match. Although Joel's parents were Jewish, he was not raised in that religion. He attended a Roman Catholic church with friends. At age 11, he was baptised in a Church of Christ in Hicksville. He now identifies as an atheist. Joel attended Hicksville High School until 1967, but did not graduate with his class. He was playing at a piano bar to help support himself, his mother and sister, and missed a crucial English exam after playing 
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  Music International. Under the agreement, UMPG and Rondor replaced EMI Music Publishing in handling Joel's catalog outside the US. Additionally, the agreement marked the first time since Joel regained control of his publishing rights in the 1980s that he began to use an administrator to handle his catalog within the U.S. The agreement's focus is on increasing the use of Joel's music in movies, television programs, and commercials. On December 12, 2012, Joel performed as part of 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden, a concert held for all the victims of Hurricane Sandy. He changed the lyrics to "Miami 
Title: Billy Joel
Content:  including Easy Money, Ruthless People, and Honeymoon in Vegas. Across the 20 years of his solo career, Joel produced 33 top 40 hits in the U.S., all of which he wrote himself, and three of which ("It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", "Tell Her About It", and "We Didn't Start the Fire") peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Joel has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards, winning five of them, including Album of the Year for 52nd Street. Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006). In 
Title: Joel (surname)
Content: Joel family, a British family of brothers who became rich from diamond and gold mining in South Africa ; Alex Joel, first American Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence ; Alexa Ray Joel (born 1985), American singer-songwriter and daughter of Billy Joel ; Billy Joel (born 1949), American singer-songwriter ; Charlotte Joël (1882/87–1943), German photographer ; Dennis Joel, (born 1947), American former actor and singer ; Diederrick Joel (born 1993), Cameroonian footballer playing in Brazil ; Georg Joel (1898–1981), German Nazi Party official ; Karl Joel (philosopher) (1864–1934), German philosopher ; Karl Amson Joel (1889–1982), German Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer ; Lawrence Joel (1928–1984), American Vietnam War medic and Medal of Honor recipient ; Manuel Joël (1826–1890), Silesian Jewish philosopher ; Nicolas Joel (born 1953), French opera director and administrator of opera houses ; Richard Joel (born 1950), president of Yeshiva University ; Robert Joel (1944–1992), American actor Joel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: 

Question: What is Billy Joel's occupation?
Answer: composer.
pianist.
singer-songwriter.
singer songwriter.
singer/songwriter.
singersongwriter.
singer-songwriter.