# Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel), Pt. 2

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Podcast: [Caropop](https://stenobird.com/podcast/caropop-4326665)
Published: 2026-07-02T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecaropopcast/2957219
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## Resource

In Pt. 2 of this lively, insightful conversation with Liberty DeVitto’, Billy Joel’s longtime drummer revisits the challenge of drumming in the synth-driven 1980s; the making of Joel’s albums The Bridge , Storm Front and River of Dreams ; the creation of the smash single “We Didn’t Start the Fire”; the reason DeVitto plays on only one River of Dreams song; and his irate fax that wound up on that last album’s control room wall. DeVitto also addresses his high-profile split from Joel and subsequent lawsuit against the singer-songwriter. How did they reconcile, with Joel writing the foreword to DeVitto’s memoir, Liberty: Life, Billy and the Pursuit of Happiness ? Have DeVitto and Joel played together since then? Why or why not? What did DeVitto say that got left on the cutting-room floor of the two-part HBO documentary: Billy Joel: And So It Goes ? He recalls playing with Karen Carpenter and Paul McCartney as well. (Photo: Petra den Tenter)

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