{"id":12128,"date":"2025-07-22T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12128\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:50:09","slug":"billy-joel-feels-good-after-brain-disorder-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12128\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel feels ‘good’ after brain disorder diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The singer-songwriter was diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus earlier this year<\/p>\n

Billy Joel says he is feeling “good”, two months on from announcing his diagnosis with rare brain condition Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).<\/p>\n

Speaking on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, the five-time Grammy winner said his condition was “still being worked on”, and he was struggling with his balance.<\/p>\n

“I feel good, they keep referring to what I have as a brain disorder, so it sounds a lot worse than what I’m feeling,” said the singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

Joel was forced to cancel a series of concert dates in May this year, after his doctors told him that his condition had been “exacerbated by recent performances”.<\/p>\n

NPH is described by the NHS<\/a> as an uncommon and poorly understood condition that most often affects people over the age of 60.<\/p>\n

The condition causes a build-up of fluid in the brain, which can affect hearing, vision and mobility.<\/p>\n

In the original statement shared on the 76-year-old singer’s Instagram, Joel was said to be undergoing “specific” physical therapy for his condition, and that he was “fully committed to prioritising his health”.<\/p>\n

His wife, Alexis Joel, wrote in a separate post that the family were “grateful for the wonderful care and swift diagnosis we received”, and that they were hopeful for a swift recovery.<\/p>\n

Joel called off 17 planned performances<\/a> in North America and Europe across 2025 and 2026, including stadium shows at Murrayfield in Edinburgh and Anfield in Liverpool.<\/p>\n

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Billy Joel pictured in his New York home in January 1978<\/p>\n

Joel, who’s known for hits including Uptown Girl and Piano Man, has regularly been on tour in recent years. He ended a record-breaking decade-long residency at Madison Square Garden in New York last year.<\/p>\n

His final performance was in February 2025, when he fell on his back during his performance after throwing a microphone stand into the crowd.<\/p>\n

He announced a postponement of his tour shortly afterwards, citing a medical condition that required him to undergo physical therapy as part of his recovery from a recent surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The singer-songwriter was diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus earlier this year Billy Joel says he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-12128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}