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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye 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 Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez 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 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo 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 Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say 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 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on... 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 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 We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire |
Official music video for "We Didn't Start The Fire" (1989). Read an interview with the women, including actress Marlee Matlin who appeared in the video at Noblemania.
Official music video with lyrics in English and Spanish.
Great fan-made video by Matthew Manley for "We Didn't Start The Fire," particularly on incorporating Time Magazine covers.
Alternative version of the music video.
From William Kelly: "NBC made a self promotional on how far TV has come. They used Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire"... I worked for a TV station for 29 yrs. & found this tape a few days before I left the station."
Live version from "Live at Yankee Stadium" (1990)
Live performance from The Grammy Award Show (1990).
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Live at the Millennium Concert, New Year's Eve (1999).
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Live at Shea Stadium (2008).
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Billy humorously discusses how he wrote "We Didn't Start The Fire" (audio only).
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Billy discusses how he came up with "We Didn't Start The Fire." And here is an explanation of each of the persons, places, and events mentioned in the song.
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Billy discussed how the song originally started as a country song he wrote, called "Jolene" starting at 1:11 in the video.
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Billy discusses "We Didn't Start The Fire" on SiriusXM (2016) (audio only).
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This is my favorite cover version of "We Didn't Start The Fire," by the Hoosiers. Their version on Live from Abby Road is amazing.
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There are many cover versions of the song, here is a spirited version by a band called Martha?
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