He worked with legendary filmmaker John Hughes on 5 films, namely Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck between 1984 and 1989.
Billy took me over to this... little white piano that had eight thousand cigarette burns on the keys, and a whole bunch of keys didn't work at all... Billy told me he played around those keys. And I saw him playing and he didn't just skip the keys, he played around them! And I said 'oh boy...'.
