"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics are made of rapid-fire brief allusions to over one hundred headline events between March 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was a number-one hit in the US.
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