Watch Robert De Niro recite Billy Joel lyrics and need him a “speedy restoration” on the Tribeca Movie Competition
Robert De Niro has wished Billy Joel his “love and full help” on the opening evening of the Tribeca Movie Competition whereas reciting snippets of his songs.
The ‘Piano Man’ singer was attributable to seem on the premiere of his two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, screened on Tribeca’s opening evening yesterday (June 4). Nonetheless, amid his latest analysis of mind dysfunction regular strain hydrocephalus (NPH), Joel was absent from the premiere.
Now, Tribeca co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal have spoken in regards to the legendary musician of their opening remarks. All through their speech, they recited traces from hits like ‘Movin’ Out’, ‘Solely the Good Die Younger’, ‘New York State of Thoughts’ and ‘You Could Be Proper’, with De Niro then calling Joel “the poet laureate of New York”.
“Billy wished to be with us tonight, however as you could have heard, he’s coping with a well being subject and needed to postpone his performances – together with this one tonight,” Rosenthal added. “We all know you’ll be a part of us in wishing him a speedy restoration.”
De Niro continued, saying of the documentary: “He’s our piano man, a beautiful, lovely a part of the guts of our metropolis. Tonight, you get to see the person behind the music and behind the legend. You’re in for an actual deal with.”
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal singing Billy Joel as they launched the Tribeca opening evening movie pic.twitter.com/uvyzwpBRsi
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 4, 2025
Billy Joel: And So It Goes was screened on the Beacon Theatre in New York Metropolis, and was directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin.
The documentary will air on HBO this summer season, and is ready to discover Joel’s life and music, “exploring the love, loss and private struggles that gas his songwriting”. The documentary can even characteristic entry to never-before-seen performances, residence motion pictures, and private images, together with one-on-one interviews.
Lacy instructed the viewers on the premiere that Joel “shall be again” quickly, including: “He stated ‘getting previous sucks, however it’s nonetheless preferable to getting cremated.’”
In the meantime, Robert De Niro has stated the world has to “rise up” to “bully” Donald Trump whereas accepting an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Movie Competition. He instructed The Guardian: “We have now to cease what’s occurring, it’s insane. We will’t have apathy and silence. It’s a must to converse up and threat being harassed.”
Through the competition, he additionally known as for folks to behave “with out violence, however with nice ardour and willpower”, urging movie followers and the viewers to organise, protest, vote, and “present our energy”.
In different information, Billy Joel has insisted that “I’m not dying”.