Historicizing the We Didn't Start the Fires

Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire

Annotations

00:00 - 00:14

Intro

INTRO

00:14 - 00:16

Harry Truman, Doris Day

00:16 - 00:17

Red China, Johnnie Ray

00:17 - 00:18

South Pacific

00:18 - 00:20

Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

00:20 - 00:22

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon

00:22 - 00:24

Studebaker, television

00:24 - 00:25

North Korea, South Korea

00:25 - 00:27

Marilyn Monroe

War
War

00:27 - 00:34

Interlude

00:34 - 00:35

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb

00:35 - 00:37

Sugar Ray, P'anmunjǒm

00:37 - 00:40

Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye

00:40 - 00:42

Eisenhower, vaccine

00:42 - 00:44

England's got a new queen

00:44 - 00:45

Marciano, Liberace

00:45 - 00:47

Santayana goodbye

00:47 - 01:00

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, ut we tried to fight it.

CHORUS

01:00 - 01:02

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov

01:02 - 01:04

Nasser and Prokofiev

01:04 - 01:05

Rockefeller, Campanella

01:05 - 01:07

Communist Bloc

01:07 - 01:09

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron

01:09 - 01:10

Toscanini, Dacron

01:10 - 01:13

Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

01:13 - 01:15

Einstein, James Dean

01:15 - 01:17

Brooklyn's got a winning team

01:17 - 01:19

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan

01:19 - 01:20

Elvis Presley, Disneyland

01:20 - 01:24

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

01:24 - 01:25

Princess Grace, Peyton Place

01:25 - 01:27

Trouble in the Suez

01:27 - 01:40

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, ut we tried to fight it.

CHORUS

01:40 - 01:42

Little Rock, Pasternak

01:42 - 01:43

Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

01:43 - 01:45

Sputnik, Zhou En-lai

01:45 - 01:47

Bridge On The River Kwai

01:47 - 01:48

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle

01:48 - 01:50

California baseball

01:50 - 01:52

Starkweather Homicide

01:52 - 01:53

Children of Thalidomide

01:53 - 01:57

Oh, oh, oh, oh

01:57 - 01:58

Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur

01:58 - 02:00

Space Monkey, Mafia

02:00 - 02:02

Hula Hoops, Castro

02:02 - 02:03

Edsel is a no-go

02:03 - 02:05

U-2, Syngman Rhee

02:05 - 02:07

Payola and Kennedy

02:07 - 02:08

Chubby Checker, Psycho

02:08 - 02:10

Belgians in the Congo

02:10 - 02:23

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, ut we tried to fight it.

CHORUS

02:23 - 02:25

Hemingway, Eichmann

02:25 - 02:27

Stranger in a Strange Land

02:27 - 02:28

Dylan, Berlin

02:28 - 02:30

Bay of Pigs invasion

02:30 - 02:32

Lawrence of Arabia

02:32 - 02:33

British Beatlemania

02:33 - 02:35

Ole Miss, John Glenn

02:35 - 02:37

Liston beats Patterson

02:37 - 02:38

Pope Paul, Malcolm X

02:38 - 02:40

British politician sex

02:40 - 02:42

J.F.K. blown away

02:42 - 02:43

What else do I have to say?

02:43 - 02:57

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, ut we tried to fight it.

CHORUS

02:57 - 02:58

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh

02:58 - 03:00

Richard Nixon back again

03:00 - 03:01

Moonshot, Woodstock

03:01 - 03:03

Watergate, punk rock

03:03 - 03:05

Begin, Reagan, Palestine

03:05 - 03:06

Terror on the airline

03:06 - 03:08

Ayatollahs in Iran

03:08 - 03:10

Russians in Afghanistan

03:10 - 03:11

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride

03:11 - 03:13

Heavy metal suicide

03:13 - 03:15

Foreign debts, homeless vets

03:15 - 03:16

AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

03:16 - 03:18

Hypodermics on the shores

03:18 - 03:20

China's under martial law

03:20 - 03:21

Rock and Roller cola wars

03:21 - 03:23

I can't take it anymore

03:23 - 04:08

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, and on, and on, and on, and on.

CHORUS

03:43 - 04:08

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...

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