I wanted to follow up on Nancy’s blog about the Billy Joel documentary, “And So It Goes.” I have  been a Billy Joel fan since high school, yes even before “The Stranger” came out. I owned “Cold Spring Harbor” and “Turnstiles.”  

Being such a longtime fan, I absolutely loved the documentary.

Throughout the five hour documentary, however, I kept asking myself the same question, why did he  do this? In the documentary he, and those are close to him, reveal a lot of the darker moments in his life. Moments that many fans never would have known about if it was not included in the documentary.  I kept thinking, given his musical legacy, he did not have to reveal the extent of his demons to the public. But, yet he did.

As I watched, I was hoping that my question would be answered. But it really wasn’t, it was left to the viewer to decide. Why would someone who’s legacy was a spectacular musical career like his reveal so much about his darkness?

Am I the only  one with that question?