Read how Billy Joel wrote 'We Didn't Start the Fire,' which went to Number One 30 years ago this week
rattling off historic names and events most people under 30 have never heard of hardly seemed like the formula for a hit song, especially in 1989 when the charts were dominated by the likes of Poison, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Debbie Gibson, and New Kids on the Block.
To hammer the point home, Joel began writing down a list of historical people and events, starting in his birth year of 1949 and continuing through the present day.
The song also provided a generation of kids with a valuable history lesson. Countless Billy Joel fans first learned about events like the Suez Canal crisis, the failure of the Edsel, John Glenn’s mission into space, and the U-2 spy-plane incident from the song. Here’s the original video where a young couple lives through the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties as Billy Joel looks on and flames slowly engulf them.
This was Billy Joel’s last Number One hit and it’s rare he gets through a concert without playing it. It usually comes near the end of the show, but in November he opened one of his Madison Square concerts with it. No matter where it falls in the show, it’s guaranteed to get thousands of fans screaming out timeless lyrics like “Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye” even if they don’t know what hell they are referencing.
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