Billy Joel’s Former Bandmate Jon Small Has Died

Jon Small, Billy Joel and the story behind And So It Goes Jon Small, the drummer who played alongside Billy Joel in the Hassles before the two formed the short-lived hard-rock duo Attila, has died.

Joel announced Small’s death on social media with a simple tribute, sharing a black-and-white photograph of the two musicians in their younger years.

His age and cause of death have not been disclosed. Small’s story with Joel was far more complicated than that of a former bandmate.

Their friendship survived one of the most painful episodes of Joel’s early life, a fallout that has once again come under the spotlight through the recent documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes.