Tom Hanks raves about Billy Joel at opening of Joel's documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

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(5 Jun 2025) Clients note: This item contains on-screen graphics, including AP branding. FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4580858 ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 4 June 2025 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hanks, actor: "I was a huge fan as soon as I saw the album cover of 'The Stranger', you know, and so I mean back when album covers really helped define the theme of what the music was going to be about, there was just no doubt, look I don't know nothing about nothing except 'Virtuosity' when one hears it and that particular album, his command of the band but also that instrument of 88 keys, how many people are like that? There's a handful of folks that can both play and compose. And write the lyrics to these songs that, I'm sorry, as soon as you hear a couple of phrases, you're singing the whole damn thing. Does anybody change the radio station? If they have a radio station anymore, when a Billy Joel song comes on, I don't think so. In the modern parlance, there is absolutely no better way to spend an afternoon or an evening just saying, hey, hey, automated music machine, Billy Joel on shuffle, please. You probably got about eight hours of great music." AP VIDEO SHOT BY GUIDO NEIRA PRODUCTION: JOHN CARUCCI STORYLINE: =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e3b6528f8c984b7dbda6a097a7531f7a