Given his rare brain disorder diagnosis, Billy Joel revealed he can no longer drive and has since decoded to auction off more than seventy of his motorbikes.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the legendary singer/songwriter said:
“I’m not allowed to drive.” “I ended up having over a hundred motorcycles, and the truth is you can only ride one at a time.” “I’m into my 70s now, and I realized I can’t ride as much as I used to.” “I don’t want to die like a bug on a windshield. So I thought I’d put a lot of them on auction.”
Stating that his Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) diagnosis “makes driving a little bit iffy”, he came to the conclusion that it was time “to turn it over to somebody else” adding “I love motorcycles. I love biking. I love driving. I love the anonymity of it,” Joel continued. “And I love the customization of these bikes, the modifications, the messing around with things. I was not a collector. I was actually a rider. So I figured it was just time to let it go.”
A disorder that occurs when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up inside the skull and presses on the brain, it was in 2025, the now 77-year old icon was diagnosed with NPH,
Explaining that he can’t perform right now because his neurologist told him that “every time you do a show, it’s like you’re getting a concussion,” the native New Yorker has to “take a series of tests” before he knows if he can perform again.
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