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1989 single by Billy Joel

1989 single by Billy Joel

"We Didn't Start the Fire"
Unmarried by Billy Joel
from the anthology Storm Front
B-side	"House of Blue Calorie-free"
Released	September 27, 1989
Recorded	July 1989
Genre	Pop rock[ane]
Length	four:49 (Anthology version) four:29 (Unmarried version)
Characterization	Columbia
Songwriter(due south)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Mick Jones Baton Joel
Billy Joel singles chronology
"Baby Grand" (1987) "We Didn't Offset the Fire" (1989) "St. petersburg" (1989)
Music video
"We Didn't Start the Burn down" on YouTube

"We Didn't Kickoff the Fire" is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single on September 27, 1989, and later released as role of Joel's anthology Storm Front on October 17, 1989. A list song, its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events betwixt 1949, the twelvemonth of Joel's nascency, and 1989, in a mainly chronological order. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Tape of the Year and became Joel's tertiary single to reach number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989. Tempest Front became Joel's third album to reach number one in the United States. "We Didn't Start the Fire", specially in the 21st century, has get the footing of many pop civilisation parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various television shows, advertisements, and comedic productions.

History [edit]

Joel conceived the thought for the song when he had just turned xl. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "It'south a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yes, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and nosotros had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights issues and everything seemed to exist awful." The friend replied, "Yep, yeah, yep, but information technology's different for you. You lot were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that cypher happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Culvert Crisis?" Joel afterwards said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.^[2] Joel has also criticized the vocal on strictly musical grounds. In 1993, when discussing it with documentary filmmaker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his song "The Longest Time": "Take a song like 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' Information technology'due south really non much of a song ... If yous accept the tune by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."^[iii]

When asked if he deliberately intended to chronicle the Cold State of war with his song^[4] he responded, "It was just my luck that the Soviet Union decided to close downwards shop [soon subsequently putting out the vocal]", and that this span "had a symmetry to it, it was 40 years" that he had lived through. He was asked if he could do a follow-up about the next couple of years after the events that transpired in the original song, he commented "No, I wrote i vocal already and I don't think it was actually that good to brainstorm with, melodically."^[5]

Music video [edit]

External video
Baton Joel – We Didn't Outset the Burn down (Official Video), 4:05
Billy Joel – We Didn't Start The Fire (Official Video, Extended) 04:26

A music video for the single was directed by Chris Blum.^[6] The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-style kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the next four decades, including the improver of children, their growth, and after, grandchildren, and the eventual death of the family'due south father. The passage of time is also depicted by periodic redecoration and upgrades of the kitchen, while an unchanging Billy Joel looks on in the background.

Historical events referenced [edit]

Though the lyrics are rapid-fire with several people and events mentioned in each stanza, there is widespread understanding on the pregnant of the lyrics. Steven Ettinger wrote,

Baton Joel captured the major images, events, and personalities of this half-century in a three-minute song.... Information technology was pure data overload, a song that causeless we knew exactly what he was singing nigh...What was truly alarming was the realization that nosotros, the listeners, for the most role understood the references.^[seven]

The following events (with Joel's lyric for each appearing in bold) are listed in the lodge that they announced in the vocal, which is nigh entirely chronological.^[eight] The lyric for each individual effect is brief and the events are punctuated past the chorus and other lyrical elements. The following list includes longer, more descriptive names for clarity. Events from a diverseness of contexts – such as pop amusement, strange affairs, and sports – are intermingled, giving an impression of the civilization of the fourth dimension as a whole. There are 118 events listed in the song.

1940s [edit]

1948 [edit]

• Harry Truman wins the 1948 United States presidential election following a partial term after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Doris Twenty-four hour period debuts in film in Romance on the High Seas, featuring the popular vocal "Information technology'southward Magic".

1949 [edit]

• Cathay: is established by The Communist Party of China who wins the Chinese Ceremonious State of war.
• Johnnie Ray: The rock and scroll progenitor signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records.
• South Pacific , the award-winning musical, opens on Broadway.
• Walter Winchell, an influential radio and newspaper journalist, begins to denounce Communism as the primary threat facing America.
• Joe DiMaggio signs a tape-breaking $100,000 contract with the New York Yankees.

1950s [edit]

1950 [edit]

• Joe McCarthy, a U.S. Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-Communism cause with his Lincoln Day spoken communication.
• Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.
• Studebaker, a popular automobile visitor, begins its financial downfall.
• Television becomes widespread throughout Europe and Northward America.
• Democratic people's republic of korea invades South korea, first the Korean War.
• Marilyn Monroe appears in five films, including The Asphalt Jungle and All Well-nigh Eve.

1951 [edit]

• The Rosenbergs, married couple Ethel and Julius, are convicted of espionage.
• H-Bomb: The United States is developing the hydrogen flop equally a nuclear weapon.
• Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion boxer, defeats Jake LaMotta in the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre".
• Panmunjom, a border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.
• Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Honour for All-time Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.
• The Rex and I , the musical past Rodgers and Hammerstein, opens on Broadway.
• The Catcher in the Rye , a controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.

1952 [edit]

• Dwight D. Eisenhower is the landslide winner of the 1952 United States presidential ballot.
• Vaccine for polio is successfully developed past Jonas Salk.
• England's got a new queen: Princess Elizabeth succeeds to the throne equally Queen Elizabeth II and is crowned the following yr. This is non a reference to the rock band Queen, which formed in 1970.
• Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world heavyweight boxing champion.
• Liberace get-go broadcasts The Liberace Show.
• Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies.

1953 [edit]

• Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dies.
• Georgy Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months.
• Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib's government minister of the interior.
• Sergei Prokofiev, a pop Russian composer, dies.
• Winthrop Rockefeller had a highly publicized divorce in 1953, but Nelson Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Three also made headlines that yr. Billy Joel himself has stated^[9] that Nelson Rockefeller was meant, in detail for his fame as governor of New York state. However, Nelson was governor from 1959 to 1973, whereas all other items in this poetry happened in 1953.
• Roy Campanella, a baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League's Near Valuable Thespian award for the second time.
• Communist Bloc: The East High german insurgence of 1953 is crushed by the Volkspolizei and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

1954 [edit]

• Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy'south main counsel and enters private practice.
• Juan Perón is at the pinnacle of his power as President of Argentine republic before a coup the following year.
• Arturo Toscanini is at the meridian of his fame every bit a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on U.Due south. national radio.
• Dacron is an early on artificial fiber fabricated from the aforementioned plastic equally polyester.
• Dien Bien Phu falls: The fall of this French/Vietnamese military camp to Việt Minh forces leads to the cosmos of North Vietnam and S Vietnam as separate states.
• "Rock Effectually the Clock" is a hitting single released by Bill Haley & His Comets.

1955 [edit]

• Albert Einstein dies at the age of 76.
• James Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, simply dies in a motorcar accident at the age of 24.
• Brooklyn's got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win their starting time and only Globe Serial before their move to Los Angeles.
• Davy Crockett, a Disney television miniseries near the legendary frontiersman, was a huge hit and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" craze.
• Peter Pan, recently featured in a Disney animated feature, is too the subject field of a stage musical starring Mary Martin, broadcast on NBC alive and in colour.
• Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, starting time his pop career, going on to earn a reputation as the "Rex of Rock and Roll".
• Disneyland opens as Walt Disney'due south beginning theme park.

1956 [edit]

• Brigitte Bardot stars in And God Created Woman, the picture that establishes her international reputation as a French "sex kitten".
• Budapest, is the site of the Hungarian Revolution.
• Alabama is the site of the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the pivotal events in the civil rights movement.
• Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality".
• Princess Grace Kelly appears in her last picture show High Society, and marries Prince Rainier Three of Monaco.
• Peyton Place , the best-selling socially scandalous novel by Grace Metalious, is published.
• Problem in the Suez: The Suez Crisis deepens equally Arab republic of egypt nationalizes the Suez Culvert.

1957 [edit]

• Niggling Rock, Arkansas is the site of a standoff between Governor Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower over the Little Rock Ix attending a previously whites-only high schoolhouse.
• Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his novel Md Zhivago.
• Mickey Drape is in the centre of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the 6th twelvemonth in a row.
• Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the Road, a defining work of the Beat Generation.
• Sputnik becomes the first bogus satellite, launched by the Soviet Union, marking the beginning of the space race.
• Chou En-Lai, Premier of the People's Republic of China, survives an assassination attempt.
• The Bridge on the River Kwai is released, and receives seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture show.^[10]

1958 [edit]

• Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.
• Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.
• California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California.
• Starkweather homicide: Charles Starkweather killed eleven people, generally in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Children of Thalidomide: Many pregnant women taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital nascency defects.

1959 [edit]

• Buddy Holly dies in a airplane crash with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature vocal hiccup: "Uh-huh, uh-huh."
• Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
• Infinite Monkey: A rhesus macaque and a squirrel monkey go the beginning 2 animals to exist launched by NASA into space and survive.
• Mafia leaders are convicted in the Apalachin coming together trial, confirming it as a nationwide conspiracy.
• Hula hoops sales reach 100 million as the latest toy fad.
• Fidel Castro comes to power later on a revolution in Cuba.
• Edsel is a no-go: Product of this much-advertised car marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.

1960s [edit]

1960 [edit]

• A U-2 spy plane flown past American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot downward over the Soviet Wedlock, causing the U-two Crunch of 1960. It does non refer to the band U2 who formed in 1976.^[eleven]
• Syngman Rhee is rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of Southward Korea.
• Payola, illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, are publicized past Dick Clark's testimony before Congress and Alan Freed'south public disgrace.
• John F. Kennedy, a senator from Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 Us presidential ballot.
• Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his comprehend of the song of the same name.
• Psycho , an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard at this indicate in the song are a trademark of the motion picture's soundtrack.
• Belgians in the Congo: The Congo-brazzaville (Léopoldville) was declared independent of Kingdom of belgium.

1961 [edit]

• Ernest Hemingway dies by suicide after a long battle with depression.
• Adolf Eichmann, a "well-nigh wanted" Nazi state of war criminal, is bedevilled in Israel for crimes against humanity during World State of war II.
• Stranger in a Foreign Land , written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a quantum best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.
• Bob Dylan (then known as Robert Zimmerman) is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton.
• Berlin 's separation into Westward Berlin and East Berlin is cemented when the Berlin Wall is erected.
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion, an endeavour by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Republic of cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, fails.

1962 [edit]

• Lawrence of Arabia , University Award-winning moving-picture show starring Peter O'Toole, premiered.
• British Beatlemania: The Beatles become the world's nigh famous rock band.
• Ole Miss: Southern segregationists rioted over the enrollment of black educatee James Meredith at the Academy of Mississippi.
• John Glenn flew the kickoff American crewed orbital mission termed "Friendship vii".
• Liston beats Patterson: Sonny Liston knocks out rarely defeated Floyd Patterson in the kickoff circular of the globe heavyweight boxing championship.

1963 [edit]

• Pope Paul VI becomes pope when Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the title.
• Malcolm X incites controversy, including his argument that "the chickens have come home to roost" about John F. Kennedy'southward assassination.
• British politician sexual activity: British Secretary of State for War John Profumo has a scandalous sexual human relationship with showgirl Christine Keeler.
• JFK diddled away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

1965 [edit]

• Birth control: Griswold v. Connecticut challenges a Connecticut constabulary prohibiting contraceptives.
• Ho Chi Minh: Performance Rolling Thunder begins, with the starting time U.Southward. gainsay troops deployed in South Vietnam in opposition to Northward Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh.

1968 [edit]

• Richard Nixon dorsum over again: After losing to Kennedy in 1960, former Vice President Nixon is elected president in 1968.

1969 [edit]

• Moonshot: Apollo 11 becomes the start successful human landing on the Moon.
• Woodstock music festival attracts 400,000, as a touchstone of the counterculture movement.

1970s [edit]

1972–1975 [edit]

• Watergate The Republican burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office complex leads to the resignation of President Nixon.
• Punk rock: Raucous bands such every bit The Ramones and the Sexual practice Pistols are founded.

1976–1977 [edit]

(Note: an particular from 1976 is put between items from 1977 to make the vocal scan better.)

• Menachem Begin becomes Prime number Minister of Israel and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt'southward president.
• Ronald Reagan, quondam governor of California, begins his Usa presidential campaign in 1976, and is elected in 1980.
• Palestine: The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates as Israelis plant settlements in the occupied West Bank.
• Terror on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings take place, including an Air France flight diverted to Uganda, where the plane was stormed in Performance Entebbe.

1979 [edit]

• Ayatollahs in Iran: The Iranian Revolution replaces secular Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with Islamic rule by Ayatollahs led by onetime exile Ruhollah Khomeini.
• Russians in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan: The Soviet Marriage deploys its army into Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, offset a decade-long war.

1980s [edit]

1981–1982 [edit]

• Bicycle of Fortune , an American television game bear witness, debuted in 1975, hires Pat Sajak and Vanna White before becoming widely popular in syndication.

1983 [edit]

• Emerge Ride becomes the first American woman in space by flying aboard Challenger on the STS-vii shuttle mission.
• Heavy metal suicide: Heavy metal songs such as "Suicide Solution" and "Ameliorate Past You, Better Than Me" are blamed by the families of fans who committed suicide.
• Foreign debts: Persistent trade and budget deficits atomic number 82 to numerous countries defaulting on their debts.
• Homeless vets: Veterans of the Vietnam War, including many disabled in the service, are condign homeless and impoverished.
• AIDS: The immunodeficiency affliction caused by HIV emerges as a pandemic.

1984 [edit]

• Crevice cocaine became a widely used form of the drug in impoverished inner cities.
• Bernie Goetz shoots 4 immature black men he claimed were trying to mug him on a New York City subway, but is cleared of attempted murder charges.

1988 [edit]

• Hypodermics on the shore: Medical waste was plant washed upwards on the beaches of Long Island, New Bailiwick of jersey, and Connecticut after being illegally dumped at body of water.

1989 [edit]

• China'south under martial police force: Mainland china declares martial constabulary, resulting in the use of military forces against protesting students to terminate the Tiananmen protests.
• Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using stone & gyre and popular music stars

Derivations [edit]

Many parodies and takeoffs take been based on the song (often expanding to events that take occurred since 1989). These parodies include The Simpsons' parody "They'll Never Stop the Simpsons" at the terminate of the 2002 "Gump Roast" episode,^[12] and the San Francisco a cappella group The Richter Scales' 2007 Webby Honour-winning parody "Here Comes Another Bubble."^[13]

In 2006, Coca-Cola sampled the vocal to brand an anthem for the 2006 FIFA Earth Cup in Latin America, changing the lyrics co-ordinate to the country.^[14]

YouTuber Dane Boedigheimer, known equally creator of the popular comedic Spider web series Annoying Orange, produced a parody as office of YouTube'south Comedy Week in 2013 titled "We Didn't Kickoff the Viral."^[fifteen] A copyright claim on monetization resulted in the audio existence completely replaced on the original upload, although fan reuploads of the original exist.

Pop band Milo Greene performed a version of the song in June 2013 for The A.Five. Lodge 'due south A.V. Undercover series.^[sixteen]

In 2019, talk show host Jimmy Fallon performed a version of the vocal for The Tonight Show, which highlights characters and moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Fe Man, leading to Avengers: Endgame, with backup past cast members Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Marking Ruffalo, Paul Rudd, Danai Gurira, Karen Gillan & Brie Larson.

In popular culture [edit]

In 2019, the song was sung by several bandage members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Jimmy Fallon, in lead up to Avengers: Endgame, to the theme of the Infinity Saga, chronicled upwardly until that time of events by the introduction of the major characters and movie titles.^[17]

In 2021, a weekly podcast began, hosted by Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, entitled We Didn't Start the Fire. Each week they examine a subject area mentioned in the Billy Joel song, in lyric order, and discuss its importance and cultural significance with an expert invitee.^[18]

The vocal features prominently, forth with a number of other Joel songs, in the streaming series The Boys from Amazon Prime in which the character Hughie Campbell, played past Jack Quaid, has a preoccupation with the American vocalist.^[19]

In the finale episode of Veep, "Veep", the song plays when Selina Meyer and Jonah Ryan are appear as their party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively during the 2022 ballot, a call-back to Meyer'southward desire to accept Baton Joel perform at her inauguration.

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

• Billy Joel – vocals, clavinet, percussion
• Liberty DeVitto – drums, percussion
• David Chocolate-brown – lead guitar
• Joey Hunting – rhythm guitar
• Crystal Taliefero – bankroll vocals, percussion
• Schuyler Deale – bass guitar
• John Mahoney – keyboards
• Sammy Merendino – electronic percussion
• Kevin Jones – keyboard programming
• Doug Kleeger – sounds furnishings and arrangements

Come across too [edit]

• "Do You lot Think These", a vocal roofing the 1950s
• "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
• "Pencil Thin Mustache"
• "19 Somethin'", a song covering the 1970s and 80s
• Ronald Reagan in music

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External links [edit]

• "We Didn't Start the Burn down" Music Video on YouTube / BillyJoelVEVO channel
• " All 59 people name-dropped in Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire': Where are they now?" from The Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2019

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