Billy Joel sells Florida mansion in Manalapan near Palm Beach for $42.6 million, MLS shows. Its asking price had dropped by $20 million since last year..

Hicksville, where he grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, is less than 15 miles away from his mansion. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his mother sent him to a nearby store to rent a TV. He returned with the TV on a dolly, explained his biographer Fred Schruers.

Billy Joel has revealed he is selling his dream mansion, which costs him an eye-watering $567,686 in annual taxes. The "Uptown Girl" singer bought the swanky pad in Long Island, New York, in 2002 after admiring it from afar when he was growing up.