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"We Didn't Start the Fire"
Single past Billy Joel
from the anthology Storm Front
B-side	"Business firm of Blue Light"
Released	September 27, 1989
Recorded	July 1989
Genre	Pop rock[one]
Length	4:49 (Anthology version) four:29 (Unmarried version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Mick Jones Baton Joel
Billy Joel singles chronology
"Baby Grand" (1987) "Nosotros Didn't Start the Burn" (1989) "Leningrad" (1989)
Music video
"We Didn't Start the Burn" on YouTube

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written and performed past American musician Billy Joel. The vocal was released as a single on September 27, 1989, and later released equally function of Joel's album Storm 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 twelvemonth of Joel'south 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 single to reach number one on the The states Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989. Storm Forepart became Joel's third album to reach number i in the United States.

"Nosotros Didn't Kickoff the Burn down", specially in the 21st century, has become the basis of many popular culture parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various television shows, advertisements, and comedic productions.

History [edit]

Baton Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had only turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-onetime friend of Sean Lennon who said "Information technology's a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and nosotros had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and ceremonious rights problems and everything seemed to be awful." The friend replied, "Yeah, yeah, yep, but information technology'south different for you. Y'all were a child in the fifties and everybody knows that zip happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Wait a minute, didn't you 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 also criticized the song on strictly musical grounds. In 1993, when discussing it with documentary filmmaker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his vocal "The Longest Time": "Accept a vocal like 'We Didn't Showtime the Fire.' It'southward actually not much of a vocal ... If you take the melody past itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."^[3]

When asked if he deliberately intended to chronicle the Cold War with his song^[iv] he responded, "It was just my luck that the Soviet Spousal relationship decided to close down shop [shortly after 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 practise a follow-up near the adjacent couple of years after the events that transpired in the original vocal, he commented "No, I wrote i song already and I don't think it was actually that expert to begin with, melodically."^[v]

Music video [edit]

External video
Billy Joel – We Didn't First the Fire (Official Video), 4:05
Billy Joel – Nosotros Didn't Starting time The Burn down (Official Video, Extended) 04:26

A music video for the single was directed past Chris Blum.^[6] The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-mode kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the side by side four decades, including the addition of children, their growth, and later, grandchildren, and the eventual death of the family unit'south male parent. 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 agreement on the significant of the lyrics. Steven Ettinger wrote,

Billy Joel captured the major images, events, and personalities of this half-century in a 3-infinitesimal vocal.... It was pure data overload, a song that causeless we knew exactly what he was singing about...What was truly alarming was the realization that we, the listeners, for the most office understood the references.^[7]

The post-obit events (with Joel's lyric for each actualization in bold) are listed in the gild that they appear in the song, which is virtually entirely chronological.^[eight] The lyric for each individual outcome is cursory and the events are punctuated by the chorus and other lyrical elements. The following list includes longer, more descriptive names for clarity. Events from a variety of contexts – such equally popular amusement, foreign affairs, and sports – are intermingled, giving an impression of the civilisation of the time as 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 post-obit a partial term after the expiry of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Doris Day debuts in film in Romance on the High Seas, featuring the popular song "It's Magic".

1949 [edit]

• Carmine China: is established by The Communist Party of China who wins the Chinese Ceremonious War.
• Johnnie Ray: The stone and gyre progenitor signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records.
• South Pacific , the honour-winning musical, opens on Broadway.
• Walter Winchell, an influential radio and newspaper journalist, begins to denounce Communism equally the main 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.S. Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-Communism crusade with his Lincoln Solar day speech.
• Richard Nixon is first elected to the United states of america Senate.
• Studebaker, a popular automobile company, begins its financial downfall.
• Television becomes widespread throughout Europe and N America.
• North korea invades South korea, beginning the Korean State of war.
• Marilyn Monroe appears in five films, including The Cobblestone Jungle and All About Eve.

1951 [edit]

• The Rosenbergs, married couple Ethel and Julius, are bedevilled of espionage.
• H-Bomb: The United States is developing the hydrogen bomb as a nuclear weapon.
• Carbohydrate 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 University Award for Best Actor 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 of america presidential ballot.
• Vaccine for polio is successfully developed by Jonas Salk.
• England'due south got a new queen: Princess Elizabeth succeeds to the throne every bit Queen Elizabeth II and is crowned the post-obit year.
• Rocky Marciano defeats Bailiwick of jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the globe heavyweight boxing champion.
• Liberace first broadcasts The Liberace Prove.
• Santayana adieu: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies.

1953 [edit]

• Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Marriage, dies.
• Georgy Malenkov succeeds Stalin for half-dozen months.
• Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation every bit Muhammad Naguib's minister of the interior.
• Sergei Prokofiev, a popular Russian composer, dies.
• Winthrop Rockefeller had a highly publicized divorce in 1953, but Nelson Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Three also made headlines that year. Billy Joel himself has stated^[9] that Nelson Rockefeller was meant, in particular for his fame as governor of New York state. However, Nelson was governor from 1959 to 1973, whereas all other items in this verse happened in 1953.
• Roy Campanella, a baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, receives the National League'south Nearly Valuable Player award for the 2d fourth dimension.
• Communist Bloc: The E German uprising of 1953 is crushed by the Volkspolizei and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

1954 [edit]

• Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy'due south chief counsel and enters private practice.
• Juan Perón is at the height of his power every bit President of Argentina before a coup the following year.
• Arturo Toscanini is at the elevation of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on U.S. national radio.
• Dacron is an early bogus fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.
• Dien Bien Phu falls: The autumn of this French/Vietnamese army camp to Việt Minh forces leads to the cosmos of Northward Vietnam and S Vietnam as carve up states.
• "Stone Around the Clock" is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets.

1955 [edit]

• Albert Einstein dies at the age of 76.
• James Dean achieves success with Eastward of Eden and Rebel Without a Crusade, but dies in a auto accident at the age of 24.
• Brooklyn's got a winning squad: The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first and but World Series before their motion to Los Angeles.
• Davy Crockett, a Disney television miniseries about the legendary frontiersman, was a huge hit and inspired a curt-lived "coonskin cap" craze.
• Peter Pan, recently featured in a Disney animated feature, is also the subject of a stage musical starring Mary Martin, broadcast on NBC live and in colour.
• Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, start his pop career, going on to earn a reputation every bit the "Male monarch of Rock and Ringlet".
• Disneyland opens as Walt Disney's start theme park.

1956 [edit]

• Brigitte Bardot stars in And God Created Woman, the film 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 double-decker cold-shoulder, 1 of the pivotal events in the civil rights movement.
• Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin'south "cult of personality".
• Princess Grace Kelly appears in her last film High Gild, and marries Prince Rainier 3 of Monaco.
• Peyton Place , the best-selling socially scandalous novel past Grace Metalious, is published.
• Problem in the Suez: The Suez Crisis deepens as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal.

1957 [edit]

• Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of a standoff betwixt Governor Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower over the Little Stone 9 attending a previously whites-simply high school.
• Boris Pasternak, the Russian writer, publishes his novel Physician Zhivago.
• Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career equally 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 Road, a defining work of the Beat Generation.
• Sputnik becomes the get-go bogus satellite, launched by the Soviet Union, marker the start of the infinite race.
• Zhou Enlai, Premier of the Communist china, survives an assassination attempt.
• The Span on the River Kwai is released, and receives 7 Academy Awards, including Best Film.^[10]

1958 [edit]

• Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.
• Charles de Gaulle is elected kickoff president of the French 5th Republic following the Algerian Crisis.
• California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California.
• Starkweather homicide: Charles Starkweather killed 11 people, more often than not in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Children of Thalidomide: Many meaning women taking the drug Thalidomide had children born with built birth defects.

1959 [edit]

• Buddy Holly dies in a plane 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 show.
• Space 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 achieve 100 million as the latest toy fad.
• Fidel Castro comes to power later a revolution in Cuba.
• Edsel is a no-get: Production of this much-advertised car marque ends afterwards only three years due to poor sales.

1960s [edit]

1960 [edit]

• A U-2 spy plane flown by American CIA airplane pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot downward over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crunch of 1960. Information technology does not refer to the band 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 by Dick Clark's testimony before Congress and Alan Freed's 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 picture palace sensationalism. The screeching violins heard at this point in the song are a trademark of the moving picture'due south soundtrack.
• Belgians in the Congo: The Congo-brazzaville (Léopoldville) was alleged contained of Belgium.

1961 [edit]

• Ernest Hemingway dies by suicide after a long battle with low.
• Adolf Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is bedevilled in Israel for crimes confronting humanity during Earth War II.
• Stranger in a Strange State , written past Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.
• Bob Dylan (and then known every bit Robert Zimmerman) is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review past 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 attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Republic of cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, fails.

1962 [edit]

• Lawrence of Arabia , University Award-winning picture show starring Peter O'Toole, premiered.
• British Beatlemania: The Beatles become the globe'due south most famous rock ring.
• Ole Miss: Southern segregationists rioted over the enrollment of black pupil 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 get-go round of the globe heavyweight boxing championship.

1963 [edit]

• Pope Paul VI becomes pope when Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the championship.
• Malcolm 10 incites controversy, including his statement that "the chickens have come home to roost" about John F. Kennedy's assassination.
• British politician sex: British Secretarial assistant of State for War John Profumo has a scandalous sexual relationship with showgirl Christine Keeler.
• JFK blown abroad: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

1965 [edit]

• Birth control: Griswold v. Connecticut challenges a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives.
• Ho Chi Minh: Operation Rolling Thunder begins, with the showtime U.S. combat troops deployed in South Vietnam in opposition to North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh.

1968 [edit]

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

1969 [edit]

• Moonshot: Apollo xi becomes the kickoff successful human being landing on the Moon.
• Woodstock music festival attracts 400,000, equally a touchstone of the counterculture movement.

1970s [edit]

1972–1975 [edit]

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

1976–1977 [edit]

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

• Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Arab republic of egypt's president.
• Ronald Reagan, sometime governor of California, begins his Usa presidential campaign in 1976, and is elected in 1980.
• Palestine: The ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates as Israelis establish settlements in the occupied Westward Bank.
• Terror on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings take place, including an Air French republic flying diverted to Uganda, where the aeroplane was stormed in Operation Entebbe.

1979 [edit]

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

1980s [edit]

1981–1982 [edit]

• Wheel of Fortune , an American television set game show, debuted in 1975, hires Pat Sajak and Vanna White before becoming widely popular in syndication.

1983 [edit]

• Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space by flying aboard Challenger on the STS-7 shuttle mission.
• Heavy metal suicide: Heavy metal songs such every bit "Suicide Solution" and "Amend By You, Better Than Me" are blamed past the families of fans who committed suicide.
• Foreign debts: Persistent trade 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 condign homeless and impoverished.
• AIDS: The immunodeficiency disease caused by HIV emerges as a pandemic.

1984 [edit]

• Crack cocaine became a widely used class 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 was found washed upwardly on the beaches of Long Isle, New Jersey, and Connecticut after being illegally dumped at body of water.

1989 [edit]

• People's republic of china'south nether martial constabulary: China declares martial law, resulting in the use of military forces against protesting students to stop the Tiananmen protests.
• Stone-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & curlicue and popular music stars

Derivations [edit]

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

In 2006, Coca-Cola sampled the song to make an anthem for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Latin America, irresolute the lyrics co-ordinate to the country.^[14]

YouTuber Dane Boedigheimer, known every bit creator of the popular comedic Spider web series Annoying Orange, produced a parody as part of YouTube'southward Comedy Week in 2013 titled "We Didn't Start the Viral."^[xv] A copyright merits on monetization resulted in the audio being 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.V. Club 's A.V. Undercover serial.^[16]

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

In popular culture [edit]

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

In 2021, a weekly podcast began, hosted by Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, entitled Nosotros Didn't Offset the Burn down. Each week they examine a subject mentioned in the Billy Joel song, in lyric society, and discuss its importance and cultural significance with an practiced guest.^[18]

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

In the finale episode of Veep, "Veep", the song plays when Selina Meyer and Jonah Ryan are announced as their party'due south presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively during the 2020 election, a phone call-dorsum to Meyer'south desire to accept Billy 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 – backing vocals, percussion
• Schuyler Deale – bass guitar
• John Mahoney – keyboards
• Sammy Merendino – electronic percussion
• Kevin Jones – keyboard programming
• Doug Kleeger – sounds effects and arrangements

Run across also [edit]

• "Do You Think These", a vocal covering 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]

• "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 Burn down': Where are they now?" from The Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2019

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