It’s going well with Billy Joel, considering the circumstances. The 76-year-old singer announced in May that he suffers from the neurological condition normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), which causes problems with his hearing, vision, and balance.
“I feel good,” Joel says in the podcast Club Random with Bill Maher. “They keep saying I have a brain disease, so it sounds a lot worse than what I feel.” However, the singer does suffer from balance issues. “It feels like I’m a boat.”
Joel, known for hits like Uptown Girl and Piano Man, canceled all performances from his schedule at the end of May after announcing that he had NPH. The American had seventeen major performances planned until the summer of 2026. Two of these were in the United Kingdom, and the rest were in the United States.
The two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes premiered last month at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In it, Joel talks candidly about the darkest period of his life. He made two attempts to end his life and was in a coma.