Attila was an American rock band, most notable for having featured a young Billy Joel as a member.^[1]

Billy Joel and Jon Small broke away from their band The Hassles and formed Attila in 1969.^[2] The instrumentation was organ and drums,^[2] with Joel also handling the bass lines with a keyboard, similar to the Doors' Ray Manzarek.^[3] Their creative partnership ended in 1970 when Joel ran off with Small's wife, Elizabeth, whom he later married,^[4] although this did not end their collaborations, as Small produced Joel's Концерт video as well as the Live at Shea Stadium performance. Small also went on to become a famed music video director for artists such as Run DMC, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire and Travis Tritt.

Their only album, Attila, was released on July 27, 1970. No singles were released from the album and it did not chart. Joel himself has gone on record as describing the album as "psychedelic bullshit".^[4]

End of the sixties, I was in a two-man group. We were heavy metal, we were going to destroy the world with amplification, we had titles like "Godzilla", "March of the Huns", "Brain Invasion". A lot of people think [I] just came out of the piano bar... I did a lot of heavy metal for a while. We had about a dozen gigs and nobody could stay in the room when we were playing. It was too loud. We drove people literally out of clubs. "It was great, but we can't stay in the club."

— Billy Joel, Interview with Billy Joel by Dan Neer in 1985