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- Billy Joel and his former drummer Liberty DeVitto have settled their dispute over 30 years’ worth of what DeVitto claimed were unpaid royalties. “The case has been amicably resolved,” Joel’s legal team said yesterday, Reuters reports, almost a year after DeVitto filed the suit. Terms of the deal were not revealed.
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Jul 14, 2020 · In a conversation with Q104.3 New York's Ken Dashow surrounding his forthcoming memoir, Liberty: Life, Billy and the Pursuit of Happiness, DeVitto recalled the moment he decided to reconnect with Joel.
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Jun 28, 2017 · Liberty DeVitto played in Billy Joel’s band for 30 years and can be heard on some of Joel’s best-known hits such as “Only the Good Die Young” and “Just the Way You Are,” but Joel...
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Jul 17, 2020 · DeVitto says he learned he was let go from Joel’s band when he didn’t receive an invite to Joel’s 2004 wedding to his third wife, Katie Lee.
Aug 18, 2023 · The reason for that is in May 2009, DeVitto filed a lawsuit against Joel seeking years of royalty payments that the drummer said the famous singer owed him. Joel's record company Sony Music Entertainment Inc was also named as a defendant.
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Apr 23, 2010 · Billy Joel and his former drummer Liberty DeVitto have settled their dispute over 30 years’ worth of what DeVitto claimed were unpaid royalties. “The case has been amicably resolved,”...
Jul 13, 2020 · When former Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto started work on his new memoir Liberty: Life, Billy and the Pursuit of Happiness about 15 years ago, he was still angry. Joel had just fired...
DeVitto got his big break in the music business when he was hired to play drums for Billy Joel in the mid-1970s. In an online interview, DeVitto describes how Joel's classic late-1970s/early-1980s band first came together:
