Problems playing this file? See media help. He was asked if he could do a follow-up about the next couple of years after the events that transpired in the original song, he commented: 'No, I wrote one song already and I don't think it was really that good to begin with, melodically'. When asked if he deliberately intended to chronicle the Cold War with his song he responded: 'It was just my luck that the Soviet Union decided to close down shop ', and that this span 'had a symmetry to it, it was 40 years' that he had lived through. If you take the melody by itself, terrible. 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 really not much of a song . Joel later criticized the song on strictly musical grounds. Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song. Joel retorted: 'Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?'. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties'. The friend replied: 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you.

Joel replied: 'Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful'. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said 'It's a terrible time to be 21!'. 'We Didn't Start the Fire', particularly in the 21st century, has become the basis of many pop culture parodies, and continues to be repurposed in various television shows, advertisements, and comedic productions.īilly Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. Storm Front became Joel's third album to reach number one in the United States. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became Joel's third single to reach number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in late 1989. A list song, its fast-paced lyrics include brief references to 118 significant political, cultural, scientific, and sporting events between 1949 (the year of Joel's birth) and 1989, in a mainly chronological order. 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 song written and published by American musician Billy Joel.

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