Top 10 Billy Joel songs

3. ”We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Another song off Joel’s 1989 album Storm Front, it was the first single off the album and on it Joel sang about the societal conflicts of the time and does a good deal of name-dropping. The song is like a musical time machine as Joel sings lines such as, “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray/South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio/Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television/North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe… We didn't start the fire/It was always burning/Since the world's been turning/We didn't start the fire/No we didn't light it/But we tried to fight it… Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev/Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez… Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex/J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?” Nearly every major news event of the time is covered in this song as Joel sings about how we as a society tried to stop the bad stuff but to no avail.

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