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Billy Joel Boulevard? N.Y. lawmakers question if honor should be given to the living

If so inclined, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Buddy Guy, Dave Grohl and the rock bands Korn and Flaming Lips can stroll along streets or alleyways bearing their names.

Billy Joel will just have to wait.

A bill that would rename a stretch of Route 107 in the Piano Man’s Long Island hometown of Hicksville, N.Y., as Billy Joel Boulevard has gotten snagged in the state Legislature, the Associated Press reports. It’s not that lawmakers have anything against the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer – they can leave that to certain music critics, who haven’t been as universally friendly to Joel as they tend to be to similar stars.