Billy Joel cancels all of his upcoming shows after revealing brain disorder diagnosis

Billy Joel has canceled each upcoming concerts, revealing helium has been diagnosed with a encephalon upset that causes carnal and intelligence issues.

Joel, 76, has mean unit hydrocephalus, oregon NPH, according to a connection posted Friday connected the soft man’s societal media. “This information has been exacerbated by caller performance performances, starring to problems with hearing, imaginativeness and balance,” the connection said.

“Under his doctor’s instructions, Billy is undergoing circumstantial carnal therapy and has been advised to refrain from performing during this betterment period.”

Symptoms of NPH — successful which cerebrospinal fluid accumulates successful the ventricles of the encephalon but unit doesn’t summation — see trouble walking, according to the Alzheimer’s Assn. Sufferers locomotion with a wide stance and their bodies leaning forward, arsenic if they were trying to support equilibrium connected a boat.

The association’s website says that different grounds is cognitive decline, including slowed thinking, nonaccomplishment of involvement successful regular activities, forgetfulness, short-term representation nonaccomplishment and trouble completing mean tasks. Later successful the disease, bladder power tin go an issue.

NPH is 1 of the fewer causes of dementia oregon cognitive diminution that tin beryllium controlled oregon reversed with treatment, the association’s website says. Surgical attraction usually involves placement of a shunt. The information is often misdiagnosed arsenic Alzheimer’s oregon Parkinson’s disease.

Danny Bonaduce of “The Partridge Family,” vigor and wrestling fame was diagnosed with NPH successful 2023. The 65-year-old said successful a 2024 interrogation that helium initially thought he’d had a stroke, portion doctors thought it was early-onset dementia oregon Alzheimer’s. It took “the amended portion of a year” for him to get a close diagnosis, helium said.

Bonaduce’s representation nonaccomplishment appears to person been serious: He showed the interviewer a photograph of himself successful a wheelchair checking retired the location wherever helium and his woman present live. He said helium has nary representation of visiting the spot aggregate times earlier moving there.

Billy Joel’s connection Friday follows his mid-March announcement that helium would postpone his upcoming circuit to negociate his wellness aft country for an unspecified condition. At the time, the vocalist expected a afloat betterment aft carnal therapy.

Now, the connection said, Joel is “thankful for the fantabulous attraction helium is receiving and is afloat committed to prioritizing his health” and “looks guardant to the time erstwhile helium tin erstwhile again instrumentality the stage.”

“I’m sincerely atrocious to disappoint our audience, and convey you for understanding,” Joel said successful Friday’s statement.

In precocious February, the “Just the Way You Are” vocalist fell aft performing “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” successful Connecticut. He rapidly recovered; it’s unclear whether that incidental was a grounds of the illness oregon simply coincidental.

Times unit writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.