Pete McMurray Show

🎹 Billy Joel Doc: "The most authentic thing I did was screw up" 😬 But as his longtime creative director Steve Cohen told us, "it's all about the recovery" 🎬 And So It Goes on HBO is full of heart, hits, and hard truths 🎤

Episode Notes

Billy Joel’s longtime creative director, Steve Cohen, served as executive producer of the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes
"As Billy says in the doc 'the most authentic thing he did in his life was screw up.'  But, it's all about the recovery"
Steve talked
-Sean Hayes & Tom Hanks also produced the doc
-The early years with a love triangle and suicide attempts 
-His first impression of Billy Joel back when they met in 1974
-"All we knew is we had to show up and play.  That was our north star.  That was where we all felt the most comfortable.  And everything fell into place after that"
-What caused the breakup with Christy Brinkley "I don't know man, marriages are complicated"
-"As Billy says in the doc 'the most authentic thing he did in his life was screw up.'  But, it's all about the recovery"