{
  "id": 1496843,
  "title": "The Son Of Billy Joel’s Early Adversary Announces Another Unauthorized Piano Man Film, And This One’s AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/the-son-of-billy-joels-early-adversary-announces-another-unauthorized",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-17T13:55:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stereogum",
    "slug": "stereogum",
    "url": "https://stereogum.com/2508498/the-son-of-billy-joels-early-adversary-announces-another-unauthorized-piano-man-film-and-this-ones-ai/news/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}