Billy Joel: in the documentary also suicide attempts

Previewed at the Tribeca Festival in New York, “Billy Joel: and So It Goes“He tells one of the most difficult periods of the life of the US singer-songwriter. The docufilm co-director by Susan Lacty and Jessica Levin deepens a moment of personal crisis at the beginning of the career, when tried suicide twice After having a relationship with the wife of a former musician from his band.

“Bill and I spent a lot of time together,” he says Elizabeth Weber In the film about the relationship he had with Joel, when he was twenty years old and she was married to The Attila drummerJon Small. The relationship was “slowly built” until Small, who had had a son with Weber, did not suspect that there was something underneath and Joel confessed to him the relationship, telling him: “I am in love with your wife”.

On the big screen, the author of “Piano Man” confesses: “I felt a lot, very guilty. They had a son. I felt like a destroyer of families. I was just in love with a woman and I received a fist on the nose, which I deserved. Jon was very angry. I was very angry”.

The fight marked the end of the relationship between the Attila and the two, with Weber who left Small and the pianist who sink into a dark period of alcohol and depression. “I didn’t have a place to live. I slept in the tokens and I was depressed, I think, almost psychotic, “recalls the protagonist.” So I thought: enough, I don’t want to live anymore. I was just suffering a lot and I wondered: why resist, tomorrow will be like today and today it sucks. So I thought I ended it. “

Today 76 years old, Joel did not participate in the Première after canceling a series of summer shows due to a recent diagnosis of night hydrocephalus, a cerebral pathology.