United Kingdom, July 26 -- Billy Joel's wife Alexis was "unimpressed" with his fame and talent when they first met.

The 76-year-old musician did everything he could to impress Alexis, 43, with his musical skills after they first met at a restaurant in 2009 but it was actually his cooking and their travel adventures that won her over.

Speaking in the new HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, he said: "When you meet someone who captures your imagination, it renews. I remember the first time I met Alexis, we went to my house, and I wanted to play the piano for her. It's a form of communication for me.

"I'm playing that [a song by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff] and she's completely unimpressed with it, totally. She couldn'...