We Didn t Start the Fire Here It Goes Again

1989 single past Billy Joel

"We Didn't Offset the Fire"
Single by Billy Joel
from the album Storm Front
B-side	"House of Blue Light"
Released	September 27, 1989
Recorded	July 1989
Genre	Pop stone[1]
Length	four:49 (Album version) 4:29 (Single version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(south)	Billy Joel
Producer(s)	Mick Jones Billy Joel
Billy Joel singles chronology
"Baby Thousand" (1987) "We Didn't Start the Burn down" (1989) "Leningrad" (1989)
Music video
"We Didn't Start the Fire" on YouTube

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a vocal written and performed past American musician Baton Joel. The song was released as a unmarried on September 27, 1989, and afterward released as function of Joel's anthology Tempest 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 year of Joel's birth, and 1989, in a mainly chronological order.

The song was nominated for the Grammy Laurels for Record of the Yr and became Joel'southward third single to reach number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989. Storm Front became Joel's third anthology to reach number 1 in the U.s.a..

"Nosotros Didn't Start the Fire", particularly in the 21st century, has become the basis of many popular culture parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various tv set shows, advertisements, and comedic productions.

History [edit]

Billy Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-yr-sometime friend of Sean Lennon who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful fourth dimension and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights issues and everything seemed to be awful." The friend replied, "Yeah, yeah, yep, but it's different for you lot. You lot were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Expect a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the bones 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 vocal "The Longest Time": "Take a song like 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' It's really not much of a song ... If you lot have the melody past itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."^[3]

When asked if he deliberately intended to chronicle the Cold War with his vocal^[4] he responded, "It was only my luck that the Soviet Matrimony decided to close down shop [soon after putting out the song]", and that this span "had a symmetry to information technology, it was 40 years" that he had lived through. He was asked if he could practice a follow-upward about the adjacent couple of years after the events that transpired in the original vocal, he commented "No, I wrote one song already and I don't think it was actually that skillful to begin with, melodically."^[5]

Music video [edit]

External video
Billy Joel – We Didn't Get-go the Fire (Official Video), 4:05
Billy Joel – Nosotros Didn't Start The Burn (Official Video, Extended) 04:26

A music video for the unmarried was directed by Chris Blum.^[6] The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-fashion kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the adjacent 4 decades, including the add-on of children, their growth, and after, grandchildren, and the eventual death of the family unit'southward father. The passage of time is likewise 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, at that place is widespread agreement on the meaning of the lyrics. Steven Ettinger wrote,

Baton Joel captured the major images, events, and personalities of this half-century in a 3-minute song.... It was pure information overload, a song that assumed nosotros knew exactly what he was singing about...What was truly alarming was the realization that nosotros, the listeners, for the most part understood the references.^[7]

The following events (with Joel's lyric for each appearing in bold) are listed in the order that they announced in the vocal, which is almost entirely chronological.^[eight] The lyric for each private event is brief and the events are punctuated by the chorus and other lyrical elements. The post-obit listing includes longer, more descriptive names for clarity. Events from a variety of contexts – such as popular entertainment, foreign affairs, and sports – are intermingled, giving an impression of the culture of the time as a whole. There are 118 events listed in the song.

1940s [edit]

1948 [edit]

• Harry Truman wins the 1948 United States presidential election post-obit a fractional term later on the decease of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Doris Day debuts in motion picture in Romance on the High Seas, featuring the popular song "It's Magic".

1949 [edit]

• Red People's republic of china: is established by The Communist Party of China who wins the Chinese Civil War.
• Johnnie Ray: The rock and curlicue progenitor signs his offset recording contract with Okeh Records.
• South Pacific , the award-winning musical, opens on Broadway.
• Walter Winchell, an influential radio and paper announcer, begins to denounce Communism as the primary 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.Due south. Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-Communism crusade with his Lincoln Mean solar day speech.
• Richard Nixon is offset elected to the United states Senate.
• Studebaker, a popular machine visitor, begins its financial downfall.
• Television becomes widespread throughout Europe and North America.
• North Korea invades South korea, kickoff 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-Bomb: The United States is developing the hydrogen flop as a nuclear weapon.
• Saccharide Ray Robinson, a champion boxer, defeats Jake LaMotta in the "St. Valentine's Twenty-four hours Massacre".
• Panmunjom, a border hamlet in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.
• Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Honor for All-time 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 past J. D. Salinger, is published.

1952 [edit]

• Dwight D. Eisenhower is the landslide winner of the 1952 Usa 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 Two and is crowned the following year.
• Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the earth heavyweight boxing champion.
• Liberace first broadcasts The Liberace Show.
• Santayana bye: 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 ability behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib'southward 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 III too 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'southward Most Valuable Role player accolade for the second time.
• Communist Bloc: The E 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's chief counsel and enters private practise.
• Juan Perón is at the elevation of his ability as President of Argentine republic earlier a coup the following yr.
• Arturo Toscanini is at the pinnacle of his fame as a usher, 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 camp to Việt Minh forces leads to the cosmos of Due north Vietnam and Southward Vietnam every bit separate states.
• "Stone Around the Clock" is a striking single released by Bill Haley & His Comets.

1955 [edit]

• Albert Einstein dies at the historic period of 76.
• James Dean achieves success with Due east of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, but dies in a car accident at the age of 24.
• Brooklyn's got a winning squad: The Brooklyn Dodgers win their commencement and only World Series before their move to Los Angeles.
• Davy Crockett, a Disney television set miniseries nearly 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 alive and in color.
• Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, start his popular career, going on to earn a reputation every bit the "King of Rock and Coil".
• Disneyland opens as Walt Disney's first theme park.

1956 [edit]

• Brigitte Bardot stars in And God Created Woman, the film that establishes her international reputation every bit a French "sexual practice kitten".
• Budapest, is the site of the Hungarian Revolution.
• Alabama is the site of the Montgomery coach boycott, one of the pivotal events in the civil rights motion.
• Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Oral communication denouncing Stalin'due south "cult of personality".
• Princess Grace Kelly appears in her final picture show High Society, and marries Prince Rainier Iii of Monaco.
• Peyton Identify , the acknowledged socially scandalous novel by Grace Metalious, is published.
• Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis deepens as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal.

1957 [edit]

• Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of a standoff between Governor Orval Faubus and President Eisenhower over the Little Rock Nine attention a previously whites-simply high school.
• Boris Pasternak, the Russian writer, publishes his novel Medico Zhivago.
• Mickey Drape is in the center of his career every bit a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.
• Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the Road, a defining work of the Beat Generation.
• Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched past the Soviet Marriage, marking the start of the infinite race.
• Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Democracy of Communist china, survives an assassination try.
• The Bridge on the River Kwai is released, and receives vii Academy Awards, including Best Picture.^[10]

1958 [edit]

• Lebanese republic 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 Crunch.
• California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California.
• Starkweather homicide: Charles Starkweather killed eleven 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 plane crash with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature song hiccup: "Uh-huh, uh-huh."
• Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards, including All-time Film.
• Space Monkey: A rhesus macaque and a squirrel monkey become the first two animals to be launched by NASA into infinite and survive.
• Mafia leaders are bedevilled in the Apalachin meeting trial, confirming it every bit a nationwide conspiracy.
• Hula hoops sales reach 100 million as the latest toy fad.
• Fidel Castro comes to power subsequently a revolution in Cuba.
• Edsel is a no-get: Production of this much-advertised auto 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 down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960. It does not 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 Republic of korea.
• Payola, illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, are publicized past 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 election.
• Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his cover of the vocal of the same proper name.
• Psycho , an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, becomes a landmark in graphic violence and movie theatre sensationalism. The screeching violins heard at this indicate in the vocal are a trademark of the film'due south soundtrack.
• Belgians in the Congo: The Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) was declared independent of Kingdom of belgium.

1961 [edit]

• Ernest Hemingway dies by suicide later on a long battle with low.
• Adolf Eichmann, a "virtually wanted" Nazi state of war criminal, is convicted in State of israel for crimes confronting humanity during World War II.
• Stranger in a Strange State , written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough 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 '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 , University Accolade-winning film starring Peter O'Toole, premiered.
• British Beatlemania: The Beatles become the world's nearly famous rock band.
• Ole Miss: Southern segregationists rioted over the enrollment of blackness 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 start round of the globe heavyweight battle title.

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 take come up home to roost" about John F. Kennedy's assassination.
• British politician sex: British Secretary of State for War John Profumo has a scandalous sexual relationship with showgirl Christine Keeler.
• JFK diddled away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.

1965 [edit]

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

1968 [edit]

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

1969 [edit]

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

1970s [edit]

1972–1975 [edit]

• Watergate The Republican burglary of the Autonomous National Committee'due south headquarters at the Watergate office 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]

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

• Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of State of israel and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt's president.
• Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, begins his United states of america presidential campaign 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 French republic flying 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 rule by Ayatollahs led past former exile Ruhollah Khomeini.
• Russians in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan: The Soviet Matrimony deploys its ground forces into Afghanistan, first a decade-long state of war.

1980s [edit]

1981–1982 [edit]

• Wheel of Fortune , an American television game show, debuted in 1975, hires Pat Sajak and Vanna White earlier 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 equally "Suicide Solution" and "Better Past You, Better Than Me" are blamed past the families of fans who committed suicide.
• Foreign debts: Persistent merchandise 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 becoming homeless and impoverished.
• AIDS: The immunodeficiency illness caused by HIV emerges as a pandemic.

1984 [edit]

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

1988 [edit]

• Hypodermics on the shore: Medical waste matter was found washed upward on the beaches of Long Isle, New Jersey, and Connecticut afterward being illegally dumped at bounding main.

1989 [edit]

• Prc'southward under martial law: China declares martial law, resulting in the use of war machine forces confronting protesting students to end the Tiananmen protests.
• Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & curlicue and pop music stars

Derivations [edit]

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

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

YouTuber Dane Boedigheimer, known as creator of the popular comedic Web series Annoying Orange, produced a parody as part of YouTube's Comedy Calendar week in 2013 titled "Nosotros Didn't Start the Viral."^[15] A copyright claim on monetization resulted in the audio beingness completely replaced on the original upload, although fan reuploads of the original be.

Pop band Milo Greene performed a version of the song in June 2013 for The A.V. Club 's A.V. Underground series.^[16]

In 2019, talk show host Jimmy Fallon performed a version of the song for The Tonight Evidence, which highlights characters and moments in the Curiosity Cinematic Universe since Iron Man, leading to Avengers: Endgame, with backup by 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 pop culture [edit]

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

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

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

In the finale episode of Veep, "Veep", the song plays when Selina Meyer and Jonah Ryan are announced as their party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively during the 2022 election, a telephone call-back to Meyer's desire 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 – 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 effects and arrangements

See as well [edit]

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

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External links [edit]

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

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