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"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single on September 18, 1989, and later released as part of Joel's album Storm Front on October 17, 1989.
"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]
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a 2023 single by American rock band Fall Out Boy, which was included in the band's eighth studio album, So Much (for) Stardust as a digital deluxe bonus track. It is a cover of Billy Joel 's 1989 song of the same name , updating the song's cultural references to span the years since the original was released.
Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn't Start the Fire” remakes Joel’s boomer-centric song with millennial/Gen Z-targeted lyrics about notable pop-culture events that took place between 1989 and 2023.
Pete Wentz and Billy Joel. Shutterstock (2) Fall Out Boy put a modern twist on a classic rock hit by updating the lyrics to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” more than 30 years after ...
Storm Front is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 23, 1989. [15] It was Joel's third album to reach No. 1 in the U.S. and features "We Didn't Start the Fire", a fast-paced song that cataloged a list of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from 1949 (when Joel was born) until 1989.
Fall Out Boy has taken Billy Joel’s anthem “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and updated it in a new cover to break down some of the biggest moments from 1989 to 2023.
Ray is one of the cultural touchstones mentioned in the first verse (concerning events from the late 1940s and early 1950s) of Billy Joel's 1989 hit single "We Didn't Start the Fire", between Red China and South Pacific. [62] He is mentioned in the lyrics of Jimmy Ray's 1997 song "Are You Jimmy Ray?"