Billy Joel hates being on TV. The 75-year-old musician has revealed he's "camera-shy" despite working in the music industry since the 1960s and he really dislikes being on TV because he's not "telegenic" he "feels like a geek" when he's performing from behind his piano. Billy told Variety: "I’m never crazy about doing TV.
I don’t think I’m telegenic anyway. I think I’m one of those artists who should be heard and not necessarily seen. "I don’t like being on camera.
I’m camera-shy. I always feel like a geek when I’m on TV because I’m static at the piano, I can’t move around. I can’t use body language.
I’m stuck at the piano. And it just doesn’t feel rock ’n’ roll when you’re on camera. You’re just locked into place.
" Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. Billy also explained he doesn't like editing tricks used in TV and prefers to be honest when he's made a mistake. He added: "There’s a lot of fake stuff TV gets away with .
.. "The crowd likes that [when I restart songs after making a mistake] because there [on stage] you’re being true to that.
On TV, you can fake a lot of stuff ...
" Billy appeared in a CBS concert film called 'Billy Joel: The 100th Live at Madison Square Garden - The Greatest Arena Run of All Time' which aired in April to celebrate his long-running residency at the New York venue. He performed at the Grammy Awards two months later and admits he wasn't thrilled to be involved i.