Within Temptation changed the way I listened to music. I may not have realised it at the time, but I do now.

Two Pulitzer Prizes. One Nobel Prize for Literature. Two National Book Awards. Stream-of-Consciousness royalty. William Faulkner.

She is the best-selling fiction writer of all-time. She is synonymous with the mystery genre. Agatha Christie.

No one is a more appropriate choice for the first article in my Artists Who Inspire Me series than Billy Joel, the American musician.