Billy Joel toys with idea of forming all-star band
To file under the fantasy music collaborations category, Billy Joel has been toying with the idea of joining forces with some contemporary music greats.
The “Piano Man” crooner who recently performed his first new music Joel in decades at the Grammys appeared on the “Howard Stern Show” this week, when the eponymous host observed that Joel should have been in the Traveling Wilburys. “I thought about putting together a band,” Joel retorted. “Me, Don Henley and Sting, and maybe John Mayer on guitar.” That roster would surely be a worthy update to the Wilburys, which was a supergroup team-up between the late Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and George Harrison, along with Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan.
When Stern asked why Joel’s supergroup hasn’t become a reality yet, “Well, everybody’s busy. You always say to the other guys, ‘Yeah, I’ll see you on the road and we’ll get together,’ and you never do it,” he added.
Amy Schumer on health: `I feel strong and beautiful'
Amy Schumer is sharing a health update to raise awareness and redirect rude commenters.
After Schumer appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday and “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, where she discussed the second season of her Hulu hit “Life Beth,” some on social media commented that her appearance had changed.
“Thank you so much for everyone’s input about my face! I’ve enjoyed feedback and deliberation about my appearance as all women do for Schumer almost 20years. And you’re right, it is puffier than normal right now,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “There are some medical and hormonal things going on in my world right now but I’m okay.”
She added: “Like every other women/person some days I feel confident and good as hell and others I want to put a bag over my head. But I feel strong and beautiful and so proud of this tv show I created. Wrote. Starred in and directed.”
Franklin in the spotlight in new `Peanuts' special
A new animated special puts a spotlight on Franklin Armstrong, the first Black character in the Peanuts comic strip, more than 50 years after he made his debut. The Apple TV+ special “Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin” explores the character’s origin as a young boy from a military family who likes baseball, space and listening to Stevie Wonder, we come to learn. “A Franklin special is really overdue,” Craig Schulz, who co-wrote the special and is the son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, told NPR. “We get to go back and really find out where Franklin came from and really tell the whole story of this kid.”