Billy Joel explains why he wouldn’t ask Paul McCartney to be in his supergroup, but says he would call Sting, Don Henley and John Mayer

With a new single to promote, Billy Joel is back on the publicity treadmill, paying a visit to Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show earlier this week. And when Stern suggested that it would have been great if George Harrison or Tom Petty had called and asked him to be in the Traveling Wilburys, Joel revealed that he’d once considered putting together his own supergroup.

Discussing its potential members, Joel said: “I thought about putting together a band: me, Don Henley, and Sting, and maybe John Mayer on guitar.”