The Son Of Billy Joel’s Early Adversary Announces Another Unauthorized Piano Man Film, And This One’s AI

Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor, the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island. A recording of that interview was recently rediscovered, and now it's about to become an animated AI film project, made by the song of a guy who worked with Billy Joel early on and who has been effectively erased from the Billy Joel narrative. That AI movie, which looks horrifying, is just one of several forthcoming unauthorized film projects about Billy Joel's early years.Last year, Billy Joel told his own story in the HBO documentary And So It Goes. Earlier this year, the film editor John Ottman announced plans to direct Billy & Me, a new movie about Joel's early years that'll apparently be told from the perspective of his onetime Attila bandmate Jon Small and his first manager Irwin Mazur. A rep for Joel slammed that project as "both legally and professionally misguided." So you can imagine how Joel and his team must feel about 1971: Billy Joel’s Lost Interview, the AI "documentary" that has apparently already been made. As it turns out, Irwin Mazur is involved in this one, too. According to The Hollywood Report...