Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A protest song on the futility of war, written in response to the Vietnam War. Later also covered by Edwin Starr and Bruce Springsteen. "We Didn't Start the Fire" Billy Joel (1989) – a cleverly structured list of historical events of the Cold War period from the 1950s–1980s, making special mention of the "communist bloc". "Weeping Wall ...
Billy Joel in 1994 "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a 1989 hit single by American musician Billy Joel in which the lyrics tell the history of the United States from 1949 to 1989 through a series of cultural references. [1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6]
Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song. [4] Joel later criticized the song on strictly musical grounds. [5] [6] [7] In 1993, when discussing it with documentary filmmaker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his song "The Longest Time": "Take a song like 'We Didn't Start the Fire'. It's ...
The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man", he has been making music since the 1960s ...
“Vienna” joins songs like “Uptown Girl” and “Piano Man” as one of Billy Joel’s most streamed tracks. Young women in particular seem to be behind its slow-burn resurgence.
Just the Way You Are" is a song by Billy Joel from his fifth studio album The Stranger (1977), released as the album's second single in early November 1977. It became both Joel's first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single (reaching No. 3 and No. 19 respectively), as well as Joel's first Gold single in the US.
Billy Joel: 1971 "The Grave" Don McLean: 1972 "The Great Compromise" John Prine: 1972 "Guns, Guns, Guns" The Guess Who: 1970 "Hand of Doom" Black Sabbath: 1973 "Hallelujah Day" Jackson 5: 1971 "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" John Lennon & Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band: 1965 "I Ain't Marching Anymore" Phil Ochs: 1968 "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam ...