Upcoming Billy Joel Biopic to Focus on His Early Years in Attila and Personal Turmoil
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Tom Breihan
12d ago· 3 min readenNews
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Summary
A new biopic is set to depict the early, tumultuous years of Billy Joel's career, focusing on his time as half of the psychedelic rock duo Attila with drummer Jon Small. The story covers the personal drama when Small's wife Elizabeth Weber left him for Joel, the band's breakup, Joel's subsequent depression and suicide attempts, and the eventual reconciliation between the two men.
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Small was married to a woman named Elizabeth Weber, but she left him and married Joel instead.
Shockingly enough, the band did not stay together.
After his second suicide attempt, Small found him and brought him to the hospital.
He and Joel made up. Joel and Weber made up, too.
Before he became famous as a solo artist, Billy Joel was one half of Attila, a psychedelic rock duo from Long Island. Joel’s bandmate in Attila (and, before that, the Hassles) was drummer Jon Small, the other guy in the photo above. Small was married to a
