# The Son Of Billy Joel’s Early Adversary Announces Another Unauthorized Piano Man Film, And This One’s AI

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> Published: 2026-08-17 13:55:41+00:00

Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor, the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island. A recording of that interview was recently rediscovered, and now it's about to become an animated AI film project, made by the song of a guy who worked with Billy Joel early on and who has been effectively erased from the Billy Joel narrative. That AI movie, which looks *horrifying*, is just one of several forthcoming unauthorized film projects about Billy Joel's early years.

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