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"We Didn't Start the Fire"
Single by Baton Joel
from the album Storm Forepart
B-side	"Business firm of Blue Light"
Released	September 27, 1989
Recorded	July 1989
Genre	Popular rock[1]
Length	4:49 (Anthology version) 4:29 (Single version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Mick Jones Billy Joel
Billy Joel singles chronology
"Baby Grand" (1987) "We Didn't First the Burn" (1989) "Saint petersburg" (1989)
Music video
"We Didn't Start the Fire" on YouTube

"We Didn't Start the Burn down" is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released every bit a single on September 27, 1989, and later released equally part of Joel's album Tempest Front on October 17, 1989. A listing song, its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 118 meaning political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, in a mainly chronological order. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became Joel's third unmarried to reach number i on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989. Storm Front became Joel's third album to reach number i in the United States. "We Didn't Starting time the Burn down", particularly in the 21st century, has become the basis of many pop civilisation parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various telly shows, advertisements, and comedic productions.

History [edit]

Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had but turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "Information technology'south a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yeah, I think when I was 21 – I idea it was an awful time and nosotros had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful." The friend replied, "Yes, yes, yeah, only it's different for you. Yous were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Wait a minute, didn't you lot hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.^[2] Joel has likewise 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 vocal similar 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' It'due south really not much of a song ... If yous take the melody by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."^[iii]

When asked if he deliberately intended to chronicle the Cold War with his song^[4] he responded, "It was just my luck that the Soviet Union decided to close downward shop [presently after putting out the song]", and that this span "had a symmetry to information technology, information technology was forty years" that he had lived through. He was asked if he could exercise a follow-up almost the side by side couple of years after the events that transpired in the original song, he commented "No, I wrote one song already and I don't think it was really that good to begin with, melodically."^[five]

Music video [edit]

External video
Billy Joel – Nosotros Didn't Offset the Fire (Official Video), 4:05
Baton Joel – Nosotros Didn't Beginning The Fire (Official Video, Extended) 04:26

A music video for the single was directed past Chris Blum.^{[half dozen]} The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-manner kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the next iv decades, including the improver of children, their growth, and later, grandchildren, and the eventual death of the family's male parent. The passage of fourth dimension 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-burn down with several people and events mentioned in each stanza, there is widespread agreement on the meaning of the lyrics. Steven Ettinger wrote,

Billy Joel captured the major images, events, and personalities of this one-half-century in a three-infinitesimal vocal.... It was pure information overload, a song that assumed we knew exactly what he was singing about...What was truly alarming was the realization that we, the listeners, for the about part understood the references.^[7]

The following events (with Joel'southward lyric for each appearing in bold) are listed in the order that they appear in the vocal, which is almost entirely chronological.^[8] The lyric for each individual upshot 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 multifariousness of contexts – such as popular entertainment, foreign affairs, and sports – are intermingled, giving an impression of the civilization of the time equally a whole. At that place 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 Day debuts in film in Romance on the High Seas, featuring the pop song "Information technology'southward Magic".

1949 [edit]

• Blood-red Red china: is established by The Communist Political party of China who wins the Chinese Civil State of war.
• Johnnie Ray: The rock and roll progenitor signs his commencement recording contract with Okeh Records.
• South Pacific , the award-winning musical, opens on Broadway.
• Walter Winchell, an influential radio and newspaper announcer, begins to denounce Communism as the principal threat facing America.
• Joe DiMaggio signs a record-breaking $100,000 contract with the New York Yankees.

1950s [edit]

1950 [edit]

• Joe McCarthy, a U.South. Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-Communism crusade with his Lincoln Day oral communication.
• Richard Nixon is beginning elected to the The states Senate.
• Studebaker, a popular automobile company, begins its financial downfall.
• Television becomes widespread throughout Europe and Due north America.
• Democratic people's republic of korea invades Republic of korea, beginning the Korean State of war.
• Marilyn Monroe appears in five films, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve.

1951 [edit]

• The Rosenbergs, married couple Ethel and Julius, are convicted of espionage.
• H-Flop: The United States is developing the hydrogen bomb as a nuclear weapon.
• Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion boxer, defeats Jake LaMotta in the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre".
• Panmunjom, a border hamlet in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean State of war.
• Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Accolade for Best Player for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.
• The King and I , the musical by 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 election.
• Vaccine for polio is successfully developed by Jonas Salk.
• England's got a new queen: Princess Elizabeth succeeds to the throne as Queen Elizabeth Ii and is crowned the following year.
• Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world heavyweight battle champion.
• Liberace first broadcasts The Liberace Show.
• Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies.

1953 [edit]

• Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Spousal relationship, dies.
• Georgy Malenkov succeeds Stalin for 6 months.
• Gamal Abdel Nasser acts every bit the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib's minister of the interior.
• Sergei Prokofiev, a popular Russian composer, dies.
• Winthrop Rockefeller had a highly publicized divorce in 1953, only Nelson Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller III also fabricated headlines that year. Billy Joel himself has stated^[nine] that Nelson Rockefeller was meant, in item for his fame as governor of New York country. Nevertheless, Nelson was governor from 1959 to 1973, whereas all other items in this poesy happened in 1953.
• Roy Campanella, a baseball game catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League's About Valuable Player award for the second time.
• Communist Bloc: The Eastward German language insurgence of 1953 is crushed by the Volkspolizei and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

1954 [edit]

• Roy Cohn resigns equally Joseph McCarthy'southward chief counsel and enters individual practice.
• Juan Perón is at the acme of his power as President of Argentina before a coup the post-obit yr.
• Arturo Toscanini is at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on U.S. national radio.
• Dacron is an early artificial fiber fabricated from the same plastic as polyester.
• Dien Bien Phu falls: The fall of this French/Vietnamese campsite to Việt Minh forces leads to the creation of North Vietnam and S Vietnam as separate states.
• "Rock Effectually the Clock" is a hit single released past Bill Haley & His Comets.

1955 [edit]

• Albert Einstein dies at the age of 76.
• James Dean achieves success with Due east of Eden and Rebel Without a Crusade, but dies in a motorcar accident at the age of 24.
• Brooklyn'southward got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first and only Earth Series before their movement to Los Angeles.
• Davy Crockett, a Disney idiot box miniseries about the legendary frontiersman, was a huge hit and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" craze.
• Peter Pan, recently featured in a Disney blithe feature, is also the subject of a stage musical starring Mary Martin, broadcast on NBC alive and in color.
• Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, kickoff his popular career, going on to earn a reputation equally the "Male monarch of Stone and Roll".
• Disneyland opens as Walt Disney'southward first theme park.

1956 [edit]

• Brigitte Bardot stars in And God Created Woman, the movie 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, i of the pivotal events in the civil rights movement.
• Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Hush-hush Speech communication denouncing Stalin'due south "cult of personality".
• Princess Grace Kelly appears in her concluding film High Club, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
• Peyton Place , the acknowledged socially scandalous novel by Grace Metalious, is published.
• Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis deepens as Arab republic of egypt nationalizes the Suez Culvert.

1957 [edit]

• Piffling Rock, Arkansas is the site of a standoff betwixt Governor Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower over the Fiddling Rock Nine attending a previously whites-simply high school.
• Boris Pasternak, the Russian writer, publishes his novel Doctor Zhivago.
• Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the 6th year in a row.
• Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the Route, a defining work of the Vanquish Generation.
• Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Spousal relationship, marking the start 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 Motion picture.^[10]

1958 [edit]

• Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crunch that eventually involves U.South. intervention.
• Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Commonwealth post-obit the Algerian Crisis.
• California baseball game begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California.
• Starkweather homicide: Charles Starkweather killed xi people, mostly in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Children of Thalidomide: Many significant women taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with congenital birth defects.

1959 [edit]

• Buddy Holly dies in a aeroplane 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 All-time Picture.
• Infinite Monkey: A rhesus macaque and a squirrel monkey become the first two animals to be launched past NASA into infinite and survive.
• Mafia leaders are convicted in the Apalachin meeting trial, confirming it as a nationwide conspiracy.
• Hula hoops sales reach 100 1000000 as the latest toy fad.
• Fidel Castro comes to power after a revolution in Cuba.
• Edsel is a no-go: Production of this much-advertised machine marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.

1960s [edit]

1960 [edit]

• A U-2 spy plane flown by American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot downward over the Soviet Wedlock, causing the U-2 Crunch of 1960. It does non refer to the ring U2 who formed in 1976.^[11]
• Syngman Rhee is rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of South 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 United states presidential election.
• Chubby Checker popularizes the trip the light fantastic toe The Twist with his embrace of the song of the same name.
• Psycho , an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, becomes a landmark in graphic violence and movie theater sensationalism. The screeching violins heard at this betoken in the song are a trademark of the motion picture's soundtrack.
• Belgians in the Congo: The Congo-brazzaville (Léopoldville) was declared independent of Belgium.

1961 [edit]

• Ernest Hemingway dies past suicide afterward a long boxing with depression.
• Adolf Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is bedevilled in Israel for crimes against humanity during Globe War Two.
• Stranger in a Foreign Land , written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough all-time-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.
• Bob Dylan (then known as Robert Zimmerman) is signed to Columbia Records subsequently a New York Times review past critic Robert Shelton.
• Berlin 'southward separation into West Berlin and East Berlin is cemented when the Berlin Wall is erected.
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion, an attempt by United states-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, fails.

1962 [edit]

• Lawrence of Arabia , Academy Accolade-winning film starring Peter O'Toole, premiered.
• British Beatlemania: The Beatles become the world's most famous stone band.
• Ole Miss: Southern segregationists rioted over the enrollment of black student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
• John Glenn flew the first American crewed orbital mission termed "Friendship 7".
• Liston beats Patterson: Sonny Liston knocks out rarely defeated Floyd Patterson in the first round of the world heavyweight boxing championship.

1963 [edit]

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

1965 [edit]

• Birth control: Griswold five. Connecticut challenges a Connecticut police prohibiting contraceptives.
• Ho Chi Minh: Operation Rolling Thunder begins, with the get-go U.S. gainsay troops deployed in South Vietnam in opposition to N Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh.

1968 [edit]

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

1969 [edit]

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

1970s [edit]

1972–1975 [edit]

• Watergate The Republican burglary of the Democratic National Committee'south headquarters at the Watergate role complex leads to the resignation of President Nixon.
• Punk rock: Raucous bands such equally The Ramones and the Sex Pistols are founded.

1976–1977 [edit]

(Note: an item from 1976 is put between items from 1977 to make the song browse better.)

• Menachem Brainstorm becomes Prime Minister of Israel and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt's president.
• Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, begins his United states presidential entrada in 1976, and is elected in 1980.
• Palestine: The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates as Israelis establish 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 Operation Entebbe.

1979 [edit]

• Ayatollahs in Iran: The Iranian Revolution replaces secular Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with Islamic dominion past Ayatollahs led by former exile Ruhollah Khomeini.
• Russians in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan: The Soviet Union deploys its army into Afghanistan, beginning a decade-long state of war.

1980s [edit]

1981–1982 [edit]

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

1983 [edit]

• Emerge Ride becomes the starting time American woman in infinite past flying aboard Challenger on the STS-7 shuttle mission.
• Heavy metallic suicide: Heavy metal songs such as "Suicide Solution" and "Better By Yous, Meliorate Than Me" are blamed past the families of fans who committed suicide.
• Foreign debts: Persistent merchandise and budget deficits lead to numerous countries defaulting on their debts.
• Homeless vets: Veterans of the Vietnam State of war, including many disabled in the service, are becoming homeless and impoverished.
• AIDS: The immunodeficiency illness caused past HIV emerges as a pandemic.

1984 [edit]

• Crack cocaine became a widely used course of the drug in impoverished inner cities.
• Bernie Goetz shoots four young 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 product was constitute washed upwards on the beaches of Long Island, New Bailiwick of jersey, and Connecticut after beingness illegally dumped at sea.

1989 [edit]

• China's under martial law: Prc declares martial constabulary, resulting in the use of military forces confronting protesting students to end the Tiananmen protests.
• Stone-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars

Derivations [edit]

Many parodies and takeoffs have been based on the song (often expanding to events that take occurred since 1989). These parodies include The Simpsons' parody "They'll Never Cease the Simpsons" at the finish of the 2002 "Gump Roast" episode,^[12] and the San Francisco a cappella grouping The Richter Scales' 2007 Webby Award-winning parody "Hither Comes Another Chimera."^[thirteen]

In 2006, Coca-Cola sampled the song to brand an anthem for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Latin America, changing the lyrics according to the country.^[14]

YouTuber Dane Boedigheimer, known every bit creator of the popular comedic Web serial Annoying Orange, produced a parody as office of YouTube's Comedy Week in 2013 titled "We Didn't Start the Viral."^[15] A copyright claim on monetization resulted in the sound being completely replaced on the original upload, although fan reuploads of the original exist.

Popular ring Milo Greene performed a version of the song in June 2013 for The A.V. Club 's A.Five. Undercover serial.^[sixteen]

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

In popular civilization [edit]

In 2019, the song was sung by several cast members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Jimmy Fallon, in pb up to Avengers: Endgame, to the theme of the Infinity Saga, chronicled up until that fourth dimension of events by the introduction of the major characters and pic titles.^[17]

In 2021, a weekly podcast began, hosted by Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, entitled Nosotros Didn't Start the Burn down. Each calendar week they examine a subject area mentioned in the Baton Joel song, in lyric club, and talk over its importance and cultural significance with an skillful guest.^[18]

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

In the finale episode of Veep, "Veep", the song plays when Selina Meyer and Jonah Ryan are announced equally their party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively during the 2020 election, a call-back to Meyer's want to have Billy Joel perform at her inauguration.

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

• Billy Joel – vocals, clavinet, percussion
• Liberty DeVitto – drums, percussion
• David Brown – pb 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 effects and arrangements

Meet also [edit]

• "Do You Call back These", a song roofing the 1950s
• "Life Is a Stone (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
• "Pencil Thin Mustache"
• "xix Somethin'", a song covering the 1970s and 80s
• Ronald Reagan in music

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External links [edit]

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

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