A long time friend and collaborator of Billy Joel has said the 76-year-old singer songwriter is “doing very very well” after his diagnosis with a rare brain disorder and that “all arrows point to him making a full recovery.”
It comes just four months after Joel cancelled all future live performances after he was diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). This is a condition that is caused by excess fluid building up in the brain’s ventricles. This in turn creates greater pressure, which compresses brain tissue, leading to issues with hearing, vision and balance that are often mistaken for dementia.
