Billy Joel: I Did Heroin, And I Didn't Like It

Billy Joel admitted on Monday that he has tried heroin.

The piano man, in an interview with Howard Stern at The Cutting Room in Midtown, said he did it just once - because he was so lost and “fears" that he never wanted to play again.



"This was in the late 70s, I think we were in Amsterdam, and had all these things going on, so we said. 'Let's see what this ‘," Joel said, according to an account of the interview online by Rolling Stone.

"That made me so high; I did not know how to deal with it. You just get out, just go to another place, and you're in the blues. All I wanna hear is the blues. You start to drool, and sick. "

The Grammy winning artist said the experience inspired the 1982 song “Scandinavian Skies.” Lyrics mentioned the "sins of Amsterdam" and left "crippled”.

He made the comment in the “Billy Joel Hall”, an organized event - Stern, which included performances of his songs by Melissa Etheridge, Tony Bennett and Pink.